android - Dialog displays differently on ICS devices that it does with older versions -

when display dialog on ics device in landscape mode dialog shows in same width did in portrait mode.

but on device running gingerbread when dialog in landscape mode displays width across screen not having compact

did change how dialog display's in ics not display across screen in second picture? how can show second picture not compact first one?

also targeted api application 2.2 cant use ics api's or anything

edit

this how call dialogs

incdialog = new messagedialog(this, r.style.fullheightdialog); incdialog.popupmessage(this, omessage); 

dialogs in separate class extends dialog

this popupmessage method shows daialog

    public void popupmessage(final context context, clsmessagerecord omessage) {     mainactivity.lastmessageclicked = omessage;     mocallingcontext = context;     momessage = omessage;     mainactivity.mishowndialogtype = dialogid;     mainactivity.setshownmessage(momessage);     mainactivity.mbintentwasshown = true;     log.i(classname + "::popupmessage", "new message dialog show....");      if (omessage != null) {          if (omessage.getisstation() == true) {             // incident message dialog             this.setcontentview(r.layout.message_st);             clsstatusrecord ostation = controlservice.db.statuslist.getmessagebyecm2id(omessage.ecm2id);              if (ostation != null) {                 if (ostation.allowmapping()) {                     imagebutton cmdmapping = (imagebutton) this.findviewbyid(r.id.cmdmapping);                     cmdmapping.setvisibility(imagebutton.visible);                     cmdmapping.setonclicklistener(new view.onclicklistener() {                         public void onclick(view view) {                             mainactivity.loaded = false;                             handlemapping();                         }                     });                 } else {                     imagebutton cmdmapping = (imagebutton) this.findviewbyid(r.id.cmdmapping);                     cmdmapping.setvisibility(imagebutton.gone);                 }                  if (ostation.ischief()) {                     imagebutton cmdchief = (imagebutton) this.findviewbyid(r.id.cmdchieflist);                     cmdchief.setvisibility(imagebutton.visible);                     cmdchief.setonclicklistener(new view.onclicklistener() {                         public void onclick(view view) {                             mainactivity.loaded = false;                             handleresponders();                         }                     });                 } else {                     imagebutton cmdchief = (imagebutton) this.findviewbyid(r.id.cmdchieflist);                     cmdchief.setvisibility(imagebutton.gone);                 }             }              mstationid = momessage.ecm2id;             mmessageid = momessage.messageid;              textview txtheader = (textview) this.findviewbyid(r.id.txtdialogheader);             textview txttoc = (textview) this.findviewbyid(r.id.txtdialogtoc);             textview txtmessage = (textview) this.findviewbyid(r.id.lblmessage);              txtheader.settext(omessage.ecm2name);             txttoc.settext(omessage.toc);             txtmessage.settext(omessage.messagetext);              if(omessage.messagetext.touppercase().startswith("update")) {                  imagebutton cmdresp = (imagebutton) this.findviewbyid(r.id.cmdresponding);                 cmdresp.setenabled(false);                 cmdresp.setimageresource(r.drawable.responding_disabled);                  imagebutton cmddecl = (imagebutton) this.findviewbyid(r.id.cmddeclining);                 cmddecl.setenabled(false);                 cmddecl.setimageresource(r.drawable.declining_disabled);                  imagebutton cmdchief = (imagebutton) this.findviewbyid(r.id.cmdchieflist);                 cmdchief.setenabled(false);                 cmdchief.setimageresource(r.drawable.chief_disabled);             }              imageview imgicon = (imageview) this.findviewbyid(r.id.imgicon);              switch (omessage.state) {             case etmsnewmessage:                 imgicon.setbackgrounddrawable(context.getresources().getdrawable(imgstnew));                 break;              case etmsresponded:                 imgicon.setbackgrounddrawable(context.getresources().getdrawable(imgstresponded));                 break;              case etmsdeclined:                 imgicon.setbackgrounddrawable(context.getresources().getdrawable(imgstunavailable));                 break;             }              button cmdexit = (button) this.findviewbyid(r.id.cmdexit);             cmdexit.setonclicklistener(new view.onclicklistener() {                 public void onclick(view v) {                     mainactivity.messageshown=false;                     closepopup();                 }             });              imagebutton cmddeclining = (imagebutton) this.findviewbyid(r.id.cmddeclining);             cmddeclining.setonclicklistener(new view.onclicklistener() {                 public void onclick(view v) {                     handledeclining(context);                 }             });              imagebutton cmdresponding = (imagebutton) this.findviewbyid(r.id.cmdresponding);             cmdresponding.setonclicklistener(new view.onclicklistener() {                 public void onclick(view v) {                     handleresponding(context);                 }             });              log.e(classname + "::popupmessage", "message view shown (incident)");             this.show();         } else {              // distribution list dialog             this.setcontentview(r.layout.message_dl);              log.e(classname + "::popupmessage", "message content filling (dist)");             textview txtheader = (textview) this.findviewbyid(r.id.txtdialogheader);             textview txttoc = (textview) this.findviewbyid(r.id.txtdialogtoc);             textview txtmessage = (textview) this.findviewbyid(r.id.lblmessage);              txtheader.settext(omessage.ecm2name);             txttoc.settext(omessage.toc);             txtmessage.settext(omessage.messagetext);              imageview imgicon = (imageview) this.findviewbyid(r.id.imgicon);             imgicon.setbackgrounddrawable(context.getresources().getdrawable(imgdlread));              button cmdexit = (button) this.findviewbyid(r.id.cmdexit);             cmdexit.setonclicklistener(new view.onclicklistener() {                 public void onclick(view v) {                     mainactivity.messageshown=false;                     mainactivity.dismessageshown=false;                     handlecancel();                     messagetype = false;                 }             });              imagebutton cmdreplytosender = (imagebutton) this.findviewbyid(r.id.cmdreplytosender);             cmdreplytosender.setonclicklistener(new view.onclicklistener() {                 public void onclick(view v) {                     handlereplytosender();                 }             });              clsstatusrecord orec = omessage.getstatusrecord();              if (orec != null) {                 imagebutton cmdreplytodl = (imagebutton) this.findviewbyid(r.id.cmdreplytodl);                 if (orec.allowwrite()) { //                      imagebutton cmdreplytodl = (imagebutton) this.findviewbyid(r.id.cmdreplytodl);                     cmdreplytodl.setonclicklistener(new view.onclicklistener() {                         public void onclick(view v) {                             handlereplytodl();                         }                     });                 }else{                     cmdreplytodl.setenabled(false);                     cmdreplytodl.setimageresource(r.drawable.replytodistlist_up_disabled);                 }             }             log.e(classname + "::popupmessage", "message view shown (dist)");             messagetype = true;             this.show();         }     } else {     } } 

here xml layout

<framelayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:id="@+id/layout_root"               android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:padding="2dip" android:paddingtop="2dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent">  <linearlayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:orientation="vertical"     android:layout_height="match_parent"     android:padding="0dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent">      <relativelayout         android:id="@+id/contentlayout2"          android:orientation="vertical"          android:padding="0dip"          android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:layout_gravity="top|left"         android:background="#000000"         android:layout_weight="0" android:layout_width="fill_parent">             <imageview              android:id="@+id/imgicon"              android:layout_height="wrap_content"              android:layout_width="wrap_content"             android:layout_gravity="top|left" android:contentdescription="@string/desc">         </imageview>          <textview              android:layout_height="wrap_content"              android:text=""              android:id="@+id/txtdialogheader"              android:layout_width="match_parent"              android:textstyle="bold"              android:layout_torightof="@id/imgicon"             android:paddingleft="5dip" android:textcolor="#ff2525" android:textsize="18dip">         </textview>          <textview              android:layout_height="wrap_content"              android:text=""              android:id="@+id/txtdialogtoc"              android:layout_width="match_parent"              android:layout_torightof="@id/imgicon"             android:layout_below="@id/txtdialogheader"             android:paddingleft="5dip" android:textsize="19dip" android:textstyle="bold">         </textview>      </relativelayout>      <scrollview             android:id="@+id/scrollmessageframe"           android:layout_height="match_parent"          android:padding="0dip"         android:background="#aa0000"         android:layout_weight="1" android:layout_width="fill_parent">          <textview              android:layout_height="wrap_content"              android:layout_width="match_parent"              android:text=""              android:id="@+id/lblmessage"               android:padding="5dip"             android:background="#000000"             android:minheight="140dip" android:textcolor="#f2f2f2" android:textsize="20dip">         </textview>      </scrollview>       <relativelayout         android:id="@+id/contentlayout3"          android:orientation="vertical"          android:background="#000000"          android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:layout_gravity="bottom|center_horizontal" android:gravity="center_horizontal" android:layout_width="match_parent">          <imagebutton             android:id="@+id/cmdresponding"             android:layout_width="62dip"             android:layout_height="62dip"             android:layout_marginright="10dip"             android:contentdescription="@string/desc"             android:src="@drawable/responding_ref" android:background="@drawable/responding_up" android:layout_margintop="5dip" android:layout_marginleft="5dip"> </imagebutton>         <imagebutton android:id="@+id/cmddeclining" android:src="@drawable/declining_ref" android:background="@drawable/declining_up" android:layout_aligntop="@+id/cmdresponding" android:layout_alignbottom="@+id/cmdresponding" android:layout_height="62dip" android:layout_width="62dip" android:layout_marginleft="3dip" android:layout_torightof="@+id/cmdresponding" android:layout_marginright="10dip" android:contentdescription="@string/desc"></imagebutton>          <imagebutton             android:id="@+id/cmdchieflist"             android:layout_width="62dip"             android:layout_height="62dip"             android:layout_torightof="@+id/cmddeclining" android:background="@drawable/chief_up" android:layout_marginright="10dip" android:src="@drawable/chief_ref" android:contentdescription="@string/desc" android:layout_margintop="5dip" android:layout_marginleft="6dip"/>          <imagebutton android:id="@+id/cmdmapping" android:background="@drawable/globe_up" android:src="@drawable/mapping_ref" android:layout_height="60dip" android:layout_width="60dip" android:layout_marginleft="2dip" android:layout_torightof="@+id/cmdchieflist" android:layout_margintop="5dip" android:contentdescription="@string/desc"></imagebutton>      </relativelayout>  </linearlayout>  <button      android:text=""      android:textsize="16dip"     android:layout_height="40dip"      android:layout_width="40dip"      android:id="@+id/cmdexit"      android:background="@drawable/closepopup"     android:layout_gravity="top|right" android:contentdescription="@string/desc"> </button>  </framelayout> 

yes, api 11 targeted tablets , large screens, , alertdialog designed not cover entire screen in holo theme. default size depends on screen size (is expressed percentual width of screen width).

it's not clear base class of messagedialog. assuming inherits alertdialog, theme sets size of dialog.

assuming have android:targetsdkversion>=11 in manifest, app uses theme.holo.dialog.alert theme dialog, sets android:windowminwidthmajor , android:windowminwidthminor specify width of dialog.

you can fix either setting android:targetsdkversion=10, or making , using own theme dialog parent theme theme.holo.dialog.alert , you'd overwrite mentioned width items.