{"id":35212,"date":"2018-06-24T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T16:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35212"},"modified":"2018-06-24T16:29:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T16:29:10","slug":"screen-resolution-dp-and-ppi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/screen-resolution-dp-and-ppi\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen resolution, dp and ppi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Self-tutoring about technology: the tutor inquires about screen size, resolution, dp, and ppi.<\/h1>\n<p>Apparently, dp is 160x(screen size in inches).<\/p>\n<p>Resolution means, as I understand, the logical, rather than physical, linear elements across the screen. The reason: ppi (pixels per inch, aka pixel density) is device-dependent.<\/p>\n<p>Resolution may be given in px by px: for example, 1280 by 768 pixels.<\/p>\n<p>To get dp, a formula is (resolution\/ppi)*160.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/material.io\/design\/layout\/understanding-layout.html#pixel-density\">material.io<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/20717887\/is-dp-based-on-the-physical-size-of-the-screen-dp-1-160-of-an-inch\">stackoverflow.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidcentral.com\/lg-nexus-4-specs\">www.androidcentral.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about technology: the tutor inquires about screen size, resolution, dp, and ppi. Apparently, dp is 160x(screen size in inches). Resolution means, as I understand, the logical, rather than physical, linear elements across the screen. The reason: ppi (pixels per &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/screen-resolution-dp-and-ppi\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Screen resolution, dp and ppi<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35216,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35212\/revisions\/35216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}