I can't find any specific information that tells me whether or not Android understand the media query (min-resolution:dpi) ?

 

As well, I was informed that for all of Android hdpi, including retina 3, one must use to keep sane, across the board x2 images ?

If you're using responsive images http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-images-in-practice along with the

picturefill polyfill:

http://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill

 

Then you can let the browser decide which image to serve up to the device. This a lot smarter than user agent / device sniffing to decide what image to serve. The browser is in a better place to make that decision.

Edited October 11, 201510 yr by rbrtsmith

I know about <picture> my question was about background images ?

if it's just a background image i'd probably just serve up the 1x version as a background is supposed to be just for decorative purposes. If it's a pattern then look into SVG for ultra sharpness.

 

Of course there's occasions when you may want to serve a 2x background. you *can* use media querys for media resolution. The browser support can be seen here http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-media-resolution

if it's just a background image i'd probably just serve up the 1x version as a background is supposed to be just for decorative purposes. If it's a pattern then look into SVG for ultra sharpness.

 

Of course there's occasions when you may want to serve a 2x background. you *can* use media querys for media resolution. The browser support can be seen here http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-media-resolution

 

The image to which I want to use is not for decorative purpose, as I mentioned; to cover all of Android hdpi, I was informed to create a 2x image which will cover all of Android hdpi, anyone have such experience ?

 

Do you have complete control over colorizing SVG images with CSS, or must you let a vector based program do most of the lifting before bringing it into the code ?

 

Android does not appear to support the MQ (min-resolution:dpi) as I was unable to find anything related to support it ?

According to the Caniuse link I posted above Android does support resolution based MQ.

 

Regarding the SVG if it is in a background image it cannot by styled via CSS.

I was using the wrong search with CanIUse; good to know.

 

rbr - I assume have never used 2x images when it comes to background images to cover all of hdpi Android resolutions with MQ ?