What resolution should my Android splash screens be?

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Published on 2010-04-01T15:36:18Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 17:23 UTC
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I'm creating a splash screen that will display while my Android application loads. I'd like to create it at the correct size so Android won't auto-scale it up or down to fit the screen.

But there are at least three important screen sizes I care about: 320x480, 480x854 (Droid), and 480x800 (Nexus One).

I've read the documentation on supporting multiple screen sizes, but I still don't see how I'm supposed to configure different splash screens for Droid/Nexus one (they're both "hdpi" resources as far as Android is concerned), and I don't know exactly how large my splash screen should be in any case. (How tall is the OS title bar/menu in Droid? N1?)

What size should I make these images, and how do I tell Android to use the correct size on a given screen?

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