Increase your user base by optimizing for tablets
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.
Build responsive layouts for 250M [and growing] active tablet users
Target large screen devices effortlessly with layouts that dynamically grow 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 can help you manage resizing and responding to configuration changes.
Support Multi-tasking and Multi-window
With a larger screen it’s common to have more than one application visible. Learn about multitasking on Android and supporting features users love like Picture in Picture or Drag and Drop.
Test your application on Android 12L
The 12L feature drop was designed to make Android 12 work better on large screens. Take a look at what's new and find tools to empower your large screen optimization efforts.
Discover Design Guidance
Material Design has guidance to help you optimize your app with common large screen layouts and common 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.”
“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.”
“Our team decided to invest in building features that encourage multitasking capabilities and, after our investments, we saw multi-window usage improve by 18x.”
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