Posted by Alex Vanyo – Developer Relations Engineer
Adaptive Highlight Week
With Android powering a various vary of gadgets, 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 type components in thoughts. Altering the way you method 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 collection will concentrate on Constructing Adaptive Android apps all this week (October 14-18), and we’ll spotlight the numerous methods you’ll be able to enhance your cell app to adapt to all of those completely different environments.
Right here’s what we’re overlaying 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 in case you missed it at I/O 2024. Additionally, learn the way adaptive apps could be made obtainable on one other new type issue: automobiles!
Tuesday: Adaptive UIs with Compose
October 15, 2024
Study the rules for a way you should use Compose to construct layouts that adapt to obtainable window dimension and the way the Materials 3 adaptive library lets you create list-detail and supporting pane layouts with out-of-the-box habits.
Wednesday: Desktop windowing and productiveness
October 16, 2024
Study what desktop windowing on Android is, along with particulars about methods to deal with it in your app and construct productiveness experiences that permit customers make the most of extra highly effective multitasking Android environments.
Thursday: Stylus
October 17, 2024
Take a more in-depth take 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 number of the methods that you could enhance your cell app’s expertise for extra than simply the smartphone with contact enter. Hold checking this weblog submit 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.
