A concerted effort was made to ensure the crispness of on-screen components relative to the pixel density of the display. The following terms are relevant to this effort and are provided along with the accompanying listed descriptive information:
- DPI-aware application: An application that is able to detect and scale images for the display's specific pixel density.
- DPI-unaware application: An application that makes no attempt to detect and scale images for the display's specific pixel density.
- HiDPI graphics: High dots-per-inch graphics.
- Retina display: This term was created by Apple to refer to displays with a pixel density of at least 300 pixels per inch. Displaying graphics, both images, and graphical user interface components, to the user is typically of paramount performance. Displaying this imagery in high quality can be somewhat...
