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 satisfy these expectations, builders must construct their apps with a number of display screen sizes and kind elements 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 a good way to assist future-proof your app.
The most recent in our Highlight Week collection will concentrate on Constructing Adaptive Android apps all this week (October 14-18), and we’ll spotlight the various 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 compensate for constructing adaptive Android apps in the event 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 rules for the way you should use 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 right way to deal with it in your app and construct productiveness experiences that permit customers reap the benefits of extra highly effective multitasking Android environments.
Thursday: Stylus
October 17, 2024
Take a more in-depth 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 dwell Q&A on making apps extra adaptive. Throughout Highlight Week, ask your questions on X and LinkedIn with #AskAndroid.
These are simply among the methods that you could enhance your cell app’s expertise for extra than simply the smartphone with contact enter. Preserve checking this weblog put up for updates. We’ll be including hyperlinks and extra all through the week. Observe 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.
