: Why PSD design ppi matters on iOS, but not on Android? A designer told me that he makes a design for iOS using 326dpi resolution. If he uses less, they will not look nice on iPhone and

@Turnbaugh909

Assuming the same pixel dimensions, PPI (or DPI, but it really is PPI) makes no difference at all.

A 100x100 pixel image at 72PPI is exactly the same as a 100x100 pixel image at 300PPI. No difference at all.

All that PPI value is is a meta tag describing what physical dimensions the image should be. If you are printing your image it matters because it affects the physical size regardless of the number of pixels. Theoretically there could be a system that uses your digital images at a physical size on screen using PPI instead of pixels, but that isn't what happens.

On screen your images are shown at their pixel size, simple as that. High pixel density (e.g Retina) screens confuse that matter slightly but they do not use any PPI value your image has.

If you're using physical dimensions to describe your image then PPI absolutely does matter. A 2x2" image at 72PPI is a lot smaller (in pixels) than a 2x2" image at 300PPI, but there is absolutely no reason at all to be designing images destined for a screen using physical dimensions.

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