Get display, screen resolution - dimension Android phone development example source code.

 Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
int nWidth = display.getWidth();
int nHeight = display.getHeight();

          DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
            getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
            //get density per inch for example: 120 , 160 , 240
            mXDpi = metrics.xdpi; // 160 The exact physical pixels per inch of the screen in the X dimension. 
            mYDpi = metrics.ydpi;

// density
int nDensity = metrics.densityDpi; // 160 screen density expressed as dots-per-inch

          float  mMetersToPixelsX = mXDpi / 0.0254f; // 1 inch == 0.0254 metre
          float  mMetersToPixelsY = mYDpi / 0.0254f;
          
// Resolution
// The total number of physical pixels on a screen.
int wPix = metrics.widthPixels; // 320 The absolute width of the display in pixels.
int hPix = metrics.heightPixels; // 480 The absolute height of the display in pixels.
int nWidthDisplay = (wPix < hPix)? wPix : hPix;

float nWidthScreenInInch = wPix / mXDpi; //320 / 160 == 2.0 in inch.
float nHeightScreenInInch = hPix / mYDpi; //480 / 160 == 3.0 in inch.

// for example:
// density 120 per inch
//width 320 pix / 120 dpi == width 2.66 inch
//height 480 pix / 120 dpi == height 4.0 inch 

// density 240 per inch
//width 320 pix / 240 dpi == width 1.33 inch
//height 480 pix / 240 dpi == height 2.0 inch 

Example:
HTC Desire HD
11 (4.3) Diagonal cm (in)
480×800 Resolution
85 (217) ppcm (PPI - Pixels per inch)

480 / 217 = 2.21 inch
800 / 217 = 3.69 inch
Math.sqrt( 2.21*2.21 + 3.69 * 3.69) = 4.3 inch - diagonal

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixels_per_inch
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_per_inch

Typical screen widths:

320dp: a typical phone screen (240x320 ldpi, 320x480 mdpi, 480x800 hdpi, etc).
480dp: a tweener tablet like the Streak (480x800 mdpi).
600dp: a 7” tablet (600x1024 mdpi).
720dp: a 10” tablet (720x1280 mdpi, 800x1280 mdpi, etc).


Emulator skins in the Android SDK
//developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html

	Low density (120), ldpi	Medium density (160), mdpi	High density (240), hdpi	Extra high density (320), xhdpi
Small screen	QVGA (240x320)		480x640
Normal screen	WQVGA400 (240x400) WQVGA432 (240x432)	HVGA (320x480)	WVGA800 (480x800) WVGA854 (480x854) 600x1024	640x960
Large screen	WVGA800** (480x800) WVGA854** (480x854)	WVGA800* (480x800) WVGA854* (480x854) 600x1024
Extra Large screen	1024x600	WXGA (1280x800)† 1024x768 1280x768	1536x1152 1920x1152 1920x1200	2048x1536 2560x1536 2560x1600
* To emulate this configuration, specify a custom density of 160 when creating an AVD that uses a WVGA800 or WVGA854 skin. ** To emulate this configuration, specify a custom density of 120 when creating an AVD that uses a WVGA800 or WVGA854 skin. † This skin is available with the Android 3.0 platform

Problem in Android application:

E/AndroidRuntime(416): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(416): java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
E/AndroidRuntime(416): 	at java.util.Arrays$ArrayList.get(Arrays.java:75)
E/AndroidRuntime(416): 	at android.widget.ArrayAdapter.getItem(ArrayAdapter.java:298)
E/AndroidRuntime(416): 	at android.widget.ArrayAdapter.createViewFromResource(ArrayAdapter.java:351)
E/AndroidRuntime(416): 	at android.widget.ArrayAdapter.getView(ArrayAdapter.java:323)
E/AndroidRuntime(416): 	at android.widget.Spinner.makeAndAddView(Spinner.java:192)
E/AndroidRuntime(416): 	at android.widget.Spinner.layout(Spinner.java:151)
E/AndroidRuntime(416): 	at android.widget.Spinner.onLayout(Spinner.java:115)

Solution: check code for set and get selection

// Spinner _spin1 contain only  49 items 
// you can set max 48 ( range 0 - 48)
// 50 is IndexOutOfBoundsException
_spin1.setSelection(50);

If You have old PC (Android in emulator with high screen resolution uses a lot of memory) or your testing phone have small screen, You can try this trick.
Rename layout folder for small device screen f.g. from layout into layout-swXXXdp and a large layout-sw600dp into layout.
Your phone with small screnn will do select xml file from renamed layout folder (for small screen).
You can to testing rotation with device en stability of fragments if an application changed orientation.
If you have old pc, you can try to make a new virtual device running on older version of Android, which uses less memory of computer.
For testing of rotation stability - application orientation changed - use on emulator Ctrl+F11, Ctrl+F12 key (Windows).

Important
Before the release of application, you have to rename layout folder to older name layout-sw600dp and layout-swXXXdp to layout.

Example source code for Android Developers

// clickable TextView
public TextView createTextView(String sText, Context con){
 TextView b = null;
 try {
  b = new TextView (con);
  b.setTextSize(15.0f);
  b.setTextColor(Color.rgb( 0, 0, 200));
  b.setOnClickListener(this);
  b.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
  LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
  b.setText(sText);
  //tr.addView(b, 60,30);
  } catch (Exception e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
 return b;
 }
return b;
}
/*****************/
public void onClick(View view) {
 try {
  String s = ((TextView) view).getText().toString();
 }
 catch (Exception e1) {
   e1.printStackTrace();
 }
}
/***********/

// if you want restore in TextView after chagne of orientation
// you have to put  code to Manifest.xml android:configChanges

activity android:name=".main"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation" //this line important !!!!!!!

drawRect(), Paint, setStroke(), setStyle(), Canvas example source code.

	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(new SampleView(this));
	}

	private static class SampleView extends View {

		// CONSTRUCTOR
		public SampleView(Context context) {
			super(context);
			setFocusable(true);

		}

		@Override
		protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {

			canvas.drawColor(Color.CYAN);
			Paint p = new Paint();
			// smooths
			p.setAntiAlias(true);
			p.setColor(Color.RED);
			p.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE); 
			p.setStrokeWidth(4.5f);
			// opacity
			//p.setAlpha(0x80); //
//drawRect (float left, float top, float right, float bottom, Paint paint) 
			canvas.drawRect(10, 10, 30, 30, p);
		}

	}
}