<compatible-screens> in Android
<p>Good day, I am trying to restrict screen sizes to only handsets (i.e. not tablets) in google play. After I found this <a href="https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens-distribution.html" rel="noreferrer">article</a> I added this to my manifest file:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;compatible-screens&gt;
    &lt;!-- all small size screens --&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="ldpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="mdpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="hdpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="xhdpi" /&gt;
    &lt;!-- all normal size screens --&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="ldpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="mdpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="hdpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="xhdpi" /&gt;
&lt;/compatible-screens&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>But it appears that now users with 5.5++ inch phones cant install my app. Next I also found this <a href="https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html" rel="noreferrer">article</a> and picture in it:</p>

<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rkvTB.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rkvTB.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p><strong>My first question - is it possible to restrict screen size by specific inch value, or I can use only tags like small, normal, large and xlarge?</strong></p>

<p>At some point I decided to increase support inch size to 7 by updating manifest like this:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;compatible-screens&gt;
    &lt;!-- all small size screens --&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="ldpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="mdpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="hdpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="small" android:screenDensity="xhdpi" /&gt;
    &lt;!-- all normal size screens --&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="ldpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="mdpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="hdpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="normal" android:screenDensity="xhdpi" /&gt;
    &lt;!-- all large size screens --&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="large" android:screenDensity="ldpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="large" android:screenDensity="mdpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="large" android:screenDensity="hdpi" /&gt;
    &lt;screen android:screenSize="large" android:screenDensity="xhdpi" /&gt;
&lt;/compatible-screens&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>But users with 5.5 inch phones and even with 5.2 inch still cant install app.</p>

<p><strong>So my second question - what I am doing wrong or don't understand?</strong> </p>

<p>I honestly read all similar questions on stackoverflow and articles in android documentation and didn't find proper answer. Thx.</p>