Targeting Android Tablets

If you don't set any stage scaling, then Flash will make sure that all of the stage is within the display, and will reveal any extra content that is off the visible edges. As an example, I'm making something that has a 1024x768 stage, but has a background image that is 2048 wide, centered on the stage. When it runs on a device that is like an iPad screen, you see exactly the stage area of my FLA. If it's an iPhone ratio device, you see a little be extra background on the left and right (the app is a landscape one). A typical Android would show a bit more, a Playbook even more, and the new Samsung Android phone shows the most. Which is ok, I have enough background image to cope with that screen.

For anything that moves off the edge of the scree, I make sure it is moved to beyond the end of that background. It looks fine on a narrow screen, and just takes a little longer to get to the edge of a very wide screen.

The stage is scaled by Flash so that it fits, which in my case means that the 768 height is scaled to 320, 480, 600, 640, 720, or 768, and the width is scaled by the same scale, and reveals more of the content that is off the sides of the stage.

Working that way means I don't have to worry about the size of the screen.

As for limiting it to tablets, there may be options when you upload to the different marketplaces, to specify the minimum screen width. If you made that be say 900, that would take care of most things, but it would still work on the new Samsung phone (which is 1280x720, as many pixels as a 10 inch tablet). Maybe there's a setting where you can specify the width in inches, that would take care of the Samsung too.

Is there a particular reason to have it not work on smaller screens?