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Android dip Ruler

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What is it?

This is a ruler in the Android "dip" (Device Independent Pixel) unit.

You can print it, cut it and give it to your designer.

Links

• US Letter pdf
• US Letter svg
• A4 pdf
• A4 svg

Why?

I've found that the concept of dp is not that easy to explain / understand.

Designers are used to think in pixels (especially if they've worked on iOS projects).

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and so this ruler will make it immediately obvious that the dp is a physical unit of length.

Some essential information is also present on the ruler:

• Definition of a dp
• List of Android logical densities (ldpi, mdpi, etc.) with their properties

And of course it can also be actually used to measure things (screens…) since it is a ruler :)

Miscellaneous

• Made with Inkscape
• Available in A4 and US Letter
• The ruler is rotated in the page to reduce the risk of being larger than the printable area
• When printing, make sure to not scale the page (or force it to scale at 100%), to preserve exact sizes

License

Android dip Ruler by Benoit 'BoD' Lubek is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://github.com/BoD/android-dip-ruler.