android - Phaser: Make background screen-width instead of content-width

Question

I am making a game using the Phaser Framework for Android. I need to make the canvas fill the entire screen width and then flood it with background color, then put content in the center of screen. Currently, even though I already set the width of the canvas to window width, Phaser still reset it to content width, which is smaller, then filling only the content width with background.

How do I stop Phaser from using content width?

var gameObj = new Phaser.Game($(".parent").width(), 700, Phaser.CANVAS, 'parent');

gameObj.stage.backgroundColor = '#A6E5F5';
gameObj.load.image('prld', 'prl.png');

gameObj.scale.scaleMode = Phaser.ScaleManager.SHOW_ALL;
gameObj.scale.pageAlignHorizontally = true;
gameObj.scale.pageAlignVertically = true;
gameObj.scale.setScreenSize(true);
gameObj.scale.refresh();

gameObj.stage.backgroundColor = '#A6E5F5';    

// Load Content Here
gameObj.load.image('h1', 'res1/h1.png');
gameObj.load.image('h2', 'res1/h2.png');
....
g = gameObj.add.group();
g.create(20, 20, 'h1');
g.create(60, 20, 'h2');
....

Answer 1

You need Phaser 2.2+ for this, but if you want the canvas to fill the entire screen space available you would do:

var game = new Phaser.Game("100%", "100%", Phaser.CANVAS, 'parent');

...

game.scale.scaleMode = Phaser.ScaleManager.RESIZE;

Also you should not use pageAlign if you're using 100% dimensions. You also don't need to call refresh or setScreenSize.

When working in the RESIZE scale mode you can add a function to your States called 'resize'. It will be called whenever the screen dimensions change (orientation event perhaps) and be passed 2 parameters: width and height. Use those to adjust your game content layout.

You may want to get the Phaser Scale Manager book, it covers all this in lots more detail (caveat: I wrote it, but it has a "pay what you want" price, including completely free)