Posted by Maru Ahues Bouza, Director, Android Developer Relations
Final month at Google I/O, we introduced that Pixel Pill and Pixel Fold are becoming a member of our Pixel household of units, and this month, as customers buy them, they’re opening them up and downloading their favourite apps, together with maybe…yours!
We’ve been strolling you thru quite a few optimizations you can also make in order that your app appears to be like nice on giant screens, however it boils down to a few essential design rules to take advantage of the additional display screen area on giant display screen Android units:
- Two-pane layouts show content material throughout two columns, displaying you extra content material throughout the unfolded, bigger display screen, and lets you do extra with out additional faucets or shedding context
- App continuity on foldable telephones ensures apps simply transition from folded to unfolded orientations
- Responsive layouts resize content material and controls because the display screen dimension modifications, similar to once you use two apps in split-screen mode
Over 50+ Google apps, and plenty of of your different favourite apps have already made the optimizations; we rounded up a few of our favorites, like how the crew at LINE adapts to a two-pane structure, or how Peloton optimized their app for bigger screens, together with a brand new design for foldable telephones in tabletop mode. It’s a good time to put money into optimizing for giant screens; in truth, nice giant display screen apps shall be featured and ranked larger in suggestions in Play.
A number of the newest assets that can assist you get began for giant screens
For the previous few weeks, we’ve been diving into the world of enormous screens with posts that can assist you get essentially the most out of those units together with your apps, together with most of the newest updates from this yr’s Google I/O. Right here’s a round-up of a few of the posts:
That is only a style of the supplies we now have that can assist you get your apps prepared for giant screens, and there’s much more right here. Nonetheless need extra? We’d love to listen to how we will help. We will’t wait to see how nice your apps look on Pixel Pill and Pixel Fold!