libgdx viewport fit different screens

Question

I'm having a problem with fitting my game on different screens. I declared a viewport width and height in my stage class.

public static final int VIEWPORT_WIDTH = 20;
public static final int VIEWPORT_HEIGHT = 30;

And i set up the camera

camera = new OrthographicCamera(VIEWPORT_WIDTH, VIEWPORT_HEIGHT);
camera.position.set(camera.viewportWidth/2, camera.viewportHeight/2, 0f);

And i set the screen width and height in desktop app to this

public static final int APP_WIDTH = 800;
public static final int APP_HEIGHT = 900;

On desktop everything looks fine but on my android device it looks stretched upwards. I read the documentation about viewports but how can I implement it here using these variables? I know similar questions have been asked but I would like to know viewports can be implemented using these specific variables, that way I might understand it better.

Did you update the viewport with screen sizes when the screen is resized? — dfour
No I didn't even know I had to do that, but it works now. Thank you! — DreamsInHD

p.streef p.streef · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-13T09:23:06

You probably want to use an ExtendViewport. This extends the world 1 way to fill the entire screen.

your code would look something like this:

private Viewport viewport;
private Camera camera;

public void create() {
    camera = new OrthographicCamera();
    viewport = new ExtendViewport(VIEWPORT_WIDTH , VIEWPORT_HEIGHT, camera);
}


public void resize(int width, int height) {
    viewport.update(width, height);
}

Read more here: https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Viewports#extendviewport

libgdx viewport fit different screens

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