optimizing for massive displays with the most recent strong APIs and gear

Posted via Maru Ahues Bouza, Director, Android Developer Family members

Final month at Google I/O, we introduced that Pixel Pill and Pixel Fold are becoming a member of our Pixel circle of relatives of gadgets, and this month, as customers acquire them, they’re opening them up and downloading their favourite apps, together with possibly…yours!

We’ve been strolling you thru numerous optimizations you’ll be able to make in order that your app seems nice on massive displays, nevertheless it boils down to 3 vital design ideas to take advantage of the additional display screen area on massive display screen Android gadgets:

Two-pane layouts show content material throughout two columns, appearing you extra content material around the opened up, higher display screen, and lets you do extra with out further faucets or dropping context

App continuity on foldable telephones guarantees apps simply transition from folded to opened up orientations

Responsive layouts resize content material and controls because the display screen dimension adjustments, comparable to whilst you use two apps in split-screen mode

Over 50+ Google apps, and lots of of your different favourite apps have already made the optimizations; we rounded up a few of our favorites, like how the staff at LINE adapts to a two-pane structure, or how Peloton optimized their app for higher displays, together with a brand new design for foldable telephones in tabletop mode. It’s a good time to put money into optimizing for massive displays; actually, nice massive display screen apps can be featured and ranked upper in suggestions in Play.

For the previous few weeks, we’ve been diving into the arena of enormous displays with posts that will help you get essentially the most out of those gadgets along with your apps, together with lots of the newest updates from this yr’s Google I/O. Right here’s a round-up of one of the vital posts:

That is only a style of the fabrics now we have that will help you get your apps able for massive displays, and there’s much more right here. Nonetheless need extra? We’d love to listen to how we will lend a hand. We will be able to’t wait to peer how nice your apps glance on Pixel Pill and Pixel Fold!