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Increase your user base by optimizing for large screens

Engineering teams around the globe have improved their customer metrics by investing in large screen optimization. Learn from the developers themselves about the experiences they built, what they implemented, and why this is important to their businesses.

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Build responsive layouts for 270M—and growing—active large screen users

Target large screen devices effortlessly with layouts that dynamically adapt to fill available space and take advantage of new device features.

Scale across screen sizes

Android devices come in all shapes and sizes. Discover APIs that help you manage configuration changes and layout resizing.

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Support multitasking

On large screens, users often have more than one application visible. Learn about multitasking and multi-window mode and how to support features users love like picture-in-picture and drag and drop.

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Test your application

The Android 12L feature drop was designed to make apps work better on large screens. Take a look at what 12L introduced, and find tools to empower your large screen optimization efforts.

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Design for large screens

Material Design has guidance to help you optimize your app with common large screen layouts and approaches to responsive grids. Explore the latest guidance to find out how you can design and build for more devices.

Create exceptional experiences across devices

Optimizing for large screens means meeting your users where they are with experiences that inspire. With foldable devices, users can switch across different postures, which brings new possibilities for the innovation of mobile office apps. Take a look at how the WPS Office team built an excellent foldable screen experience.

Developer voices: Why invest in large screens?

“YouTube has seen huge growth in tablet users since 2019, so we’ve spent time making sure the YouTube experience feels at home on tablets and foldables to meet our customers where they are.”

- Ed Palmer, software engineer at YouTube

“We invested heavily at the design and engineering level to support tablet experiences, and we are proud to say the result is a 4.7 star rating on Google Play.”

- Matthew Mossman, Android Engineer on eBay’s architecture team

“Our team decided to invest in building features that encourage multitasking capabilities and, after our investments, we saw multi-window usage improve by 18x.”

- Theresa Sullivan, Team lead at Google Chrome