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Build adaptive apps
Unlock your app's full potential on phones, tablets, foldables, ChromeOS devices, and cars. Reach more users on more devices. Increase user engagement and retention.
Optimize the user experience on all devices
Build your app to work seamlessly on a wide variety of devices. Support configuration changes to ensure your app looks and works great in every window size, aspect ratio, orientation, and posture. Maintain continuity—enable users to pick up where they left off across different form factors and platforms. Avoid bad user experiences like compatibility modes and letterboxing.
Create adaptive layouts
Provide a great user experience on all device form factors, from conventional phones to tablets to cars. Adapt your app's UI to different display sizes and configurations to enhance the user experience, improve accessibility, future-proof your app for new devices, and reduce development and maintenance costs.
Support external input devices
Increase your app's reach and accessibility. Create a truly inclusive user experience by optimizing your app for a wide range of input devices. Ensure effortless interaction with mouse, trackpad, keyboard, stylus, and accessibility tools, empowering every user to easily navigate your app and realize its full potential.
Showcase differentiating experiences
Leverage the latest advancements in the Android ecosystem to create unique user experiences. New form factors, such as foldable devices, offer innovative device configurations, like tabletop posture, which enables users to operate their foldable device without holding it in their hands. Differentiate your app from the ordinary with exceptional capabilities.
Guarantee reliability with automated testing
Automate testing with tools like the Espresso testing framework and Jetpack Compose testing APIs. Automated testing speeds up development by providing rapid feedback, eliminating errors caused by human intervention, and improving app stability through comprehensive testing. The result: lower development cost, better resource allocation, and faster release cycles to ultimately enhance the user experience with a more stable and reliable app.
Get inspired
Tour the large screen gallery
Explore inspiring, optimized designs for large screen devices. Browse UI/UX templates for popular app categories, including media, creativity, games, and more.
Check out adaptive app success stories
Optimize your app for screens of all sizes to provide the best experience for your users and deliver positive business results. More and more apps across all categories have been taking advantage of the opportunities presented by multiple form factors. See the experiences developers have built, learn about the implementations they've created, and find out why adaptive app development is important to their businesses.