Expand the user experience with large screens
Large screens enable users to see more, do more, experience more. Create an immersive, engaging user experience on large screens with layouts that resize and reconfigure to optimize presentation, interactivity, usability.
Expand your opportunities
Market opportunity
More than 270 million active large screen Android devices
Business opportunity
Increased user engagement for large screen-optimized apps
Development opportunity
Layouts and tools for accelerated large screen optimization
Inspired designs
Proven design patterns
Canonical layouts — Navigation components
The large screen canonical layouts ensure an optimal user experience on all large screen form factors—tablets, foldables, ChromeOS devices—while also supporting all phone sizes. Navigation rail and drawer components provide out-of-the way navigation for UI convenience and control.
Canonical
List-detail
Enables one-tap/one-click access to descriptive, explanatory, or other supplementary information for content organized in lists.
Canonical
Feed
Arranges content elements in an expansive grid, associating elements by size and placement, drawing attention to elements using proportion and scale.
Canonical
Supporting panel
Organizes apps into primary and secondary display areas to keep content uncluttered and tools, options, and settings close at hand.
Navigation
Navigation rail and drawer
Complement the canonical layouts by positioning primary navigation destinations within easy reach while occupying a minimum of screen space.
Window size classes
Android's window size classes help you support screens of all sizes for an optimal user experience on devices of all kinds.
Compact
< 600 dp
Medium
600 - 840 dp
Expanded
> 840 dp
Differentiated experiences
Large screens enable user experiences not possible on small screen phones. Large screens make multitasking, drag and drop, picture-in-picture mode, and stylus input more practicable and productive. Foldables in tabletop and book posture create a user experience no other device can duplicate.
Build better with Android
Social media & comm
Show more messages, more notifications, more conversations. Enable users to access content quickly and easily. Empower users to create better content faster.
Media
Showcase your app on the big screen. Make movies and music easier to browse, preview, and play. Engage users in an immersive, lean-back media experience.
Productivity
Increase user productivity with multitasking and drag and drop on expansive large screens. Show more tools, controls, comments, more of everything users need to be productive.
Shopping
Give users a bigger window for window-shopping, for side-by-side comparison shopping, to filter and find products, share bargains with friends, and curate wish lists.
Reading
Enable users to enjoy reading at home and on the go. Improve readability. Reduce eyestrain. Make your app a must-have for bookworms and bibliophiles.