12L feature drop
What’s in 12L?
An OS optimized for large screens
600sp—across notifications, quick settings, lockscreen, overview, home screen, and more. Try your app with the UI updates!
Built for multitasking
Improved compatibility experience
Optimize for large screens
Responsive layouts for large screens
Large screen app quality
Migrate your UI to responsive layouts
Adaptive UI in Jetpack Compose
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Your Camera app on different form factors
Updated November 10, 2022
Historically, your app could have lived in the same window and with a fixed orientation for its whole life cycle. But with the availability of new form factors, such as foldable devices, and new display modes such as multi-window and multi-display,
Canonical layouts and visual hierarchy: Designing for larger screens
Updated November 10, 2022
Canonical layouts provide a great starting point for differentiated large screen experiences, covering common use-cases and screen sizes. But how do you choose the right layout for your app, or build on top of canonical layouts to create an adaptive
Do’s and don’ts: Mindset for optimizing apps for larger screens
Updated November 10, 2022
Come learn best practices for building your Android application so it will work well on larger screens and foldables! We cover everything from new Android Studio tools, new and updated Jetpack libraries, and more specific design and development
Compose: Implementing responsive UI for larger screens
Updated November 10, 2022
Learn how to build adaptive layouts for every screen size. Develop the mindset for building UI with Compose to create a great user experience across phones, tablets, foldables and ChromeOS devices. Resources: Build adaptive layouts →
Build better UIs across form factors with Android Studio
Updated November 10, 2022
Android Studio is making it easier and faster to expand your app across multiple form factors from large to small! Come take a tour across the IDE where we walk you through new tools and improved features such as Visual Linting, Reference Devices,
Drag & drop for seamless multitasking
Updated November 9, 2022
With the increase in large screen devices, users are using multiple apps at the same time more and more. By adding support for dragging and dropping content from/into your app, you can cut out friction and delight your users with great cross-app
The key to keyboard and mouse support across tablets and ChromeOS
Updated November 9, 2022
Android has over 270 million active large screen devices today. With every new large screen device introduced, the importance of optimizing your app for keyboard and mouse support continues to grow. This talk dives into the code you can use to
Navigation Compose on every screen size
Updated November 9, 2022
Writing a single navigation system that can handle phones, ChromeOS devices, and everything in between can appear daunting. We talk through strategies for approaching this work and how Navigation Compose can be used alongside the canonical layouts to
Now in Android: 65 - Android 13 Beta 4, Jetpack Compose 1.2 stable, Wear OS, and more!
Updated August 3, 2022
Welcome to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. Today, we're covering updates on Android 13 Beta 4, Predictive back gestures, Jetpack Compose, Wear OS, Text gradients, Large screens, System
Designing apps for large screens
Updated May 12, 2022
Explore key concepts and strategies for adapting mobile apps to large screen devices, such as tablets and foldables. Dig into the challenges of optimizing design and finding ways to meet the changing expectations of your users, in order to offer the
#AndroidDevSummit ‘21: Top 3 things in developing for large screens
Updated November 16, 2021
Did you catch all of the latest in large screens development at #AndroidDevSummit ‘21? If not, don’t worry, Android Engineering Manager, Clara Bayarri recaps the top three announcements to know about developing for large screens in 90 seconds. From
Build Android UIs for any screen size
Updated October 27, 2021
Large Screens represent an important and the fastest growing segment of active Android devices, so now is the time to make your UI adapt to larger form factors. Join us as we guide you through the state of the ecosystem, focusing on new design
Now in Android: 40 - Google I/O 2021, Jetpack Compose, Android 12 beta, and more!
Updated June 3, 2021
Welcome back to Now in Android, your ongoing guide to what’s new and notable in the world of Android development. In this episode, Manuel Vivo and Dan Galpin cover updates on Jetpack Compose, Android 12 and privacy, tooling, Kotlin, large screens,
Building across devices
Updated June 3, 2021
Did you miss the latest in Building across screens at Google I/O 2021? Product Manager Diana Wong will recap the top three announcements from this year’s Google I/O! Form Factors at Google I/O 2021 → https://goo.gle/3pdQDxQ Subscribe to Android
Android development on Chrome OS
Updated August 12, 2020
Chromebooks have built in capabilities for developers to develop and run their apps on the same device, allowing them to build a better experience, especially for large screens. This video shows developers how to use their Chromebooks to take their