A screen adaptation method and apparatus. A client obtains a user interface data package from a server end and parses the user interface data packet to obtaining drawing information about each module and component; the modules of the user interface are arranged vertically and each module contains one or more components. According to the screen direction of the device where the client is located, the client acquires the display attributes of each component, and draws each component in the user interface according to said attributes and to a resource file required to be filled into each component.