How to determine screen resolution on Windows Phone

This is a very common scenario most developers stumble across - they are building an app for Windows Phone and have to target all 3 screen resolutions available with Windows Phone 8.

The 3 screen resolutions for your reference are:

WVGA - 480x800 or 800x480 (15:9 ratio)
WXGA - 768x1280 or 1280x768 (15:9 ratio)
720p - 720x1280 or 1280x720 (16:9 ratio)

There may be many scenarios in which you would want to know the screen resolution of the device your app is running on, a popular one being that you want to show higher quality images for higher resolution devices. You can accomplish this very easily by checking for the ScaleFactor as follows:

  if(App.Current.Host.Content.ScaleFactor == 100)
  {
    // WVGA
  }
  else if (App.Current.Host.Content.ScaleFactor == 160)
  {
    // WXGA
  }
  else if (App.Current.Host.Content.ScaleFactor == 150)
  {
     // 720p
  }

More at http://paraswadehra.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-determine-screen-resolution-on.html

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