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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Google Chrome is the most widely used browser globally, and the Chrome team wants to ensure their users have a great experience across all devices. Many Chrome users have been requesting more productivity features on their mobile, tablet, and
Microsoft empowers people and organizations to work, learn, organize, connect, and create through their leading Microsoft 365 apps. To achieve that, they know it’s essential to provide an optimal productivity experience for their customers, across all devices they use.
Foldable devices can switch across different postures, which brings new possibilities for the innovation of mobile office apps. Let's take a look at how the WPS Office team creates an excellent foldable screen experience. Watch more Developer Stories
Spotify’s mission is to connect millions of creators to billions of fans. Learn more about how being available across different Android devices and form factors such as Wear OS, foldables and tablets, Android TV, and Android for Cars, as well as
Google Duo is a simple, high quality video calling app for everyone. With the increase of people being at home during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Duo team saw a significant increase in people using the app to stay connected with friends & family, school and work.
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