Does anyone know how reliable the above is? It says it’ll return 0 is unable to determine the DPI, but doesn’t say under what circumstances that may happen. Is it a per-device thing that simply may or may not work on any given device, or is it more along the lines of not being able to determine the DPI for things like computer monitors?
I want to zoom my camera in by 20% on devices with small screens so that players can see what’s going on more easily. It’s super easy to do, on the proviso that I can figure out how big the screen is. And I’m hoping that Screen.height / Screen.dpi will be reliable enough to work on all iOS and the majority of Android devices. It won’t be game breaking if that’s not the case, but it’d be cool to know how reliable I can expect that to be.
Haven’t found any devices where it’s zero yet, except when running in the Unity editor on my PC.
I think my approach will be to read the Screen.DPI value, and if it’s negative, zero or implausible, use a substitute failsafe value based on the resolution. As long as the game still works with the failsafe value, you’re golden.
This is an old post, but google directs here. I just spent some time because it wasn’t obvious so perhaps it saves some time for others:
On iOS7.1 (tested in simulator) Screen.dpi returns -1.
Unity 5.1.2
I ended up using -1 as a possible value in my code, just in case.
Up until now I had detection of 0, but never bothered checking -1 so it caused some unexpected issues with my game (in the simulator).