title: Scale down xlarge app on large Nexus 7 screen
body: <p><em>I know the best way of supporting different screen sizes in Android is to create different layouts for the different screen sizes.</em></p>
  
  <p>I know it is possible to have a phone app scale up to the tabled sized screens. What I want to know if it is possible to scale <strong>down</strong> my <em>res/layout-xlarge-land</em> layouts to fit the Nexus 7. I have put the following in the manifest:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;supports-screens 
      android:resizeable="true"
      android:smallScreens="false" 
      android:normalScreens="false" 
      android:largeScreens="false" 
      android:xlargeScreens="true" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the Nexus 7 still expects the layouts in the <em>res/layout-large</em> folder, it doesn't take the layouts in the <em>res/layout-xlarge-land</em> folder. When I copy the <em>res/layout-xlarge-land</em> folder to the <em>res/layout-large</em> folder, it doesn't scale down.</p>
  
  <p>I tried all kinds of different options in the manifest, but I couldn't get it to work. Is scaling down at all possible? </p>
  
  <p>Edit:</p>
  
  <p>I know the proper way is to create the <code>large</code> layout for the Nexus 7 and then create specific layouts for that device. But I'm working on a schedule and I can't influence the design (which is designed for a 10-inch tablet). So I am forced for the 7-inch tablets to use the phone design. </p>
  
  <p>I know that Android Phone-only apps can be made to scale up to fit larger screens if specified in the manifest. So I was wondering if the other way around would work, where the 10-inch layouts are scaled down to fit the 7-inch screen (much like apps for the iPad scale down on the iPad Mini). I got the feeling from reading this article (<a href="http://www.tested.com/tech/android/1381-how-android-scales-apps-for-different-screen-sizes" rel="nofollow">http://www.tested.com/tech/android/1381-how-android-scales-apps-for-different-screen-sizes</a>)  that this was possible, but I couldn't make it work.</p>