Posted by Alex Vanyo – Developer Relations Engineer
Adaptive Highlight Week
With Android powering a various vary of units, customers count on a seamless and optimized expertise throughout their foldables, tablets, ChromeOS, and even automobiles. To fulfill these expectations, builders must construct their apps with a number of display screen sizes and kind components in thoughts. Altering the way you strategy UI can drastically enhance customers’ experiences throughout foldables, tablets, and extra, whereas stopping tech debt {that a} portrait-only mindset can create – merely put, constructing adaptive is an effective way to assist future-proof your app.
The newest in our Highlight Week sequence will deal with Constructing Adaptive Android apps all this week (October 14-18), and we’ll spotlight the numerous methods you possibly can enhance your cellular app to adapt to all of those totally different environments.
Right here’s what we’re protecting throughout Adaptive Highlight Week
Monday: What’s adaptive?
October 14, 2024
Take a look at the new documentation for constructing adaptive apps and atone for constructing adaptive Android apps when you missed it at I/O 2024. Additionally, find out how adaptive apps will be made accessible on one other new kind issue: automobiles!
Tuesday: Adaptive UIs with Compose
October 15, 2024
Be taught the ideas for a way you should utilize Compose to construct layouts that adapt to accessible window measurement and the way the Materials 3 adaptive library allows you to create list-detail and supporting pane layouts with out-of-the-box conduct.
Wednesday: Desktop windowing and productiveness
October 16, 2024
Be taught what desktop windowing on Android is, along with particulars about the way to deal with it in your app and construct productiveness experiences that allow customers reap the benefits of extra highly effective multitasking Android environments.
Thursday: Stylus
October 17, 2024
Take a better have a look at how one can construct highly effective drawing experiences throughout stylus and contact enter with the brand new Ink API.
Friday: #AskAndroid
October 18, 2024
Be part of us for a reside Q&A on making apps extra adaptive. Throughout Highlight Week, ask your questions on X and LinkedIn with #AskAndroid.
These are simply a few of the methods which you could enhance your cellular app’s expertise for extra than simply the smartphone with contact enter. Hold checking this weblog put up for updates. We’ll be including hyperlinks and extra all through the week. Comply with Android Builders on X and Android by Google at LinkedIn to listen to much more about methods to adapt your app, and ship in your questions with #AskAndroid.