Adaptive apps case studies | Android Developers

Increase your user base by optimizing for multiple screens

Engineering teams around the globe have improved their customer metrics by building adaptive experiences for all screens where your mobile app runs. Learn from the developers themselves about the experiences they built, what they implemented, and why this is important to their businesses.

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Build adaptive layouts for 500M+ active large screen users

Target all display sizes effortlessly with layouts that dynamically adapt to fill available space and take advantage of new device features.

Scale across screen sizes

Android devices come in all shapes and sizes. Discover APIs that help you manage configuration changes and layout resizing.

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Support multitasking

On large screens, users often have more than one application visible. Learn about multitasking and multi-window mode and how to support features users love like picture-in-picture and drag and drop.

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Evaluate your application

Apps must satisfy criteria across several quality tiers to ensure that the apps fully support large screens. Review the compatibility tests and their corresponding checklists to determine whether your app is ready for large screens.

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Design for all screens

Material Design has guidance to help you optimize your app with common adaptive layouts and approaches to responsive grids. Explore the latest guidance to find out how you can design and build for more devices.

Create exceptional experiences across devices

Optimizing for all screens means meeting your users where they are with experiences that inspire. With foldable devices, users can change device posture, which brings new possibilities for the innovation of productivity apps. Take a look at how the WPS Office team built an excellent foldable screen experience.

Developer voices: Why invest in multiple form factors?

“YouTube has seen huge growth in tablet users since 2019, so we've spent time making sure the YouTube experience feels at home on tablets and foldables to meet our customers where they are.”

- Ed Palmer, software engineer at YouTube

“We invested heavily at the design and engineering level to support tablet experiences, and we are proud to say the result is a 4.7 star rating on Google Play.”

- Matthew Mossman, Android Engineer on eBay's architecture team

“Our team decided to invest in building features that encourage multitasking capabilities and, after our investments, we saw multi-window usage improve by 18x.”

- Theresa Sullivan, Team lead at Google Chrome