Screen Resolution refers to the number of pixels on display. A higher resolution means more pixels and more pixels provide the ability to display more visual information. This entity is widely used in applications related to the broadcasting of real-time visuals such as live video, gaming, etc for optimization and frame conversions. The same information can also be used to detect if there is damage to any of the pixels present on the screen. Practically, it is possible to retrieve this information. A sample GIF is given below to get an idea about what we are going to do in this article.
Step by Step Implementation
Step 1: Create a New Project in Android Studio
To create a new project in Android Studio please refer to How to Create/Start a New Project in Android Studio. The code for that has been given in both Java and Kotlin Programming Language for Android.
Step 2: Working with the activity_main.xml file
Go to the activity_main.xml file which represents the UI of the application, and create a Button that on click would generate a Toast displaying the number of pixels available at the width and length. Below is the code for the activity_main.xml file.
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>    android:layout_width="match_parent"    android:layout_height="match_parent"    tools:context=".MainActivity">      <!--Button which onclick creates a Toast Message-->    <Button        android:id="@+id/btn"        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:layout_centerInParent="true"        android:text="click" /></RelativeLayout> |
Step 3: Working with the MainActivity file
Go to the MainActivity file, and refer to the following code. Below is the code for the MainActivity file. Comments are added inside the code to understand the code in more detail.
Kotlin
import android.graphics.Pointimport android.os.Bundleimport android.widget.Buttonimport android.widget.Toastimport androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity  class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)          // Declare the button from the layout file        val btn = findViewById<Button>(R.id.btn)          // Action when the button is clicked        btn.setOnClickListener {              // get default display from the windows manager            val display = windowManager.defaultDisplay              // declare and initialize a point            val size = Point()              // store the points related details from the display variable in the size variable            display.getSize(size)              // store the point information in integer variables width and height            // where .x extracts width pixels and .y extracts height pixels            val width = size.x            val height = size.y              // Toast will display the width and height values            Toast.makeText(applicationContext, "Width: $width Pixels , Height: $height Pixels", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()        }    }} |
Java
import android.graphics.Point;import android.os.Bundle;import android.view.Display;import android.widget.Button;import android.widget.Toast;import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;  public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {      @Override    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);          // Declare the button from the layout file        Button btn = findViewById(R.id.btn);          // Action when the button is clicked        btn.setOnClickListener(v -> {            // get default display from the windows manager            Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();              // declare and initialize a point            Point size = new Point();              // store the points related details from the display variable in the size variable            display.getSize(size);              // store the point information in integer variables width and height            // where .x extracts width pixels and .y extracts height pixels            int width = size.x;            int height = size.y;              // Toast will display the width and height values            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Width: " + width + " Pixels , Height: " + height + " Pixels", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();        });    }} |
