how to get width of device (cellphone or tablet) in java(android)

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i want to get Avd's Width ( android virtual device )
i use this code for my problem :

Java

Toast.makeText(this, String.valueOf(view.getWidth()), Toast.LENGTH_LONG);

but Eclips shows me an error.
view cannot be resolved ...

should i import somthing else in my acction ?

Java

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.Toast;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;

Posted 23-Sep-14 7:11am

seyed mahmud shahrokni

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Sep-14 13:46pm

I hope width of device is documented in manufacturers specs. Probably, your application could search for the specs on the Web and extract these figures from them using Web scraping. But functionality of your application should not depend on that size, maybe only on the size of the screen. :-)
—SA

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2014-09-23T08:45:00

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see http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/compatibility.html[^].

Posted 23-Sep-14 8:45am

Richard MacCutchan