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 numerous optimizations you can also make in order that your app appears nice on massive screens, however it boils down to 3 necessary design rules to benefit from the additional display screen area on massive display screen Android units:
- Two-pane layouts show content material throughout two columns, exhibiting you extra content material throughout the unfolded, bigger display screen, and means that you can do extra with out further faucets or dropping 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 measurement modifications, equivalent to whenever 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 group at LINE adapts to a two-pane format, 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 spend money on optimizing for giant screens; actually, nice massive display screen apps shall be featured and ranked increased in suggestions in Play.
A few of the newest sources that can assist you get began for giant screens
For the previous couple of 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 along with your apps, together with most of the newest updates from this 12 months’s Google I/O. Right here’s a round-up of among the posts:
That is only a style of the supplies we’ve 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!
