Posted by Alex Vanyo – Developer Relations Engineer
Adaptive Highlight Week
With Android powering a various vary of gadgets, customers anticipate a seamless and optimized expertise throughout their foldables, tablets, ChromeOS, and even vehicles. To fulfill these expectations, builders must construct their apps with a number of display screen sizes and type 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 an effective way to assist future-proof your app.
The most recent in our Highlight Week sequence will give attention to 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 totally different environments.
Right here’s what we’re overlaying throughout Adaptive Highlight Week
Monday: What’s adaptive?
October 14, 2024
Try the new documentation for constructing adaptive apps and atone for constructing adaptive Android apps should you missed it at I/O 2024. Additionally, find out how adaptive apps may be made out there on one other new type issue: vehicles!
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 out there window measurement and the way the Materials 3 adaptive library lets you create list-detail and supporting pane layouts with out-of-the-box conduct.
Learn the weblog submit: Making a responsive dashboard structure for JetLagged with Jetpack Compose
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Making a responsive dashboard structure for JetLagged with Jetpack Compose Use Stream layouts, WindowSizeClasses, movableContentOf, and LookaheadScope to attain a fluid and adaptable UI that adjusts to totally different display screen sizes. |
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 permit customers benefit from extra highly effective multitasking Android environments.
Learn the weblog submit: Developer Preview: Desktop windowing on Android Tablets
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Developer Preview: Desktop windowing on Android Tablets Desktop windowing on Android tablets allows customers to run a number of apps concurrently and resize home windows for optimum multitasking. |
Thursday: Stylus
October 17, 2024
Be taught the ideas for the way to construct Adaptive layouts in Compose following the section system, with examples of customized layouts utilizing ideas and methods to carry designs to life.
Watch the video: Customized Adaptive layouts in Compose
And try how one can construct highly effective drawing experiences throughout stylus and contact enter with the brand new Ink API.
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Introducing Ink API, a brand new Jetpack library for stylus apps Ink API is a brand new Jetpack library for stylus apps making it straightforward for builders to create, render, and manipulate lovely ink strokes. |
Friday: #AskAndroid
October 18, 2024
Be part of us for a stay Q&A on making apps extra adaptive. Throughout Highlight Week, ask your questions on X and LinkedIn with #AskAndroid.
Watch the livestream: Adaptive #AskAndroid | Highlight Week
These are simply a number of the methods you can 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. 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.
