Land your apps on Googlebook with adaptive development
Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager, and Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, Android Developer Googlebook introduces a new category of laptops built on a shared Android foundation. High-performance hardware from partners such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and Asus, combines mobile convenience with desktop power. Googlebook offers high-resolution OLED touchscreens, dedicated…
Googlebook, a new category of laptops built on an Android foundation, offers high-resolution OLED touchscreens, dedicated keyboards, precision trackpads, and all-day battery life. Users can seamlessly transition from mobile to desktop experiences. Optimizing apps for Googlebook provides visibility through Google Play highlights, improved search, and featured spots.
Googlebook allows for easy app transfer through optimized apps highlighted during setup. Adaptive development, a key to Googlebook success, enables apps to scale across large displays, new device postures, and form factors. By following desktop development and design guidance, apps can leverage adaptive layouts, multi-pane architecture, and multi-input support.
Detailed design patterns, like Grid and FlexBox, help organize complex content and adjust visual styles for desktop displays. Special considerations include responsive type scales, max widths, and explicit click targets. Notability's success on Googlebook demonstrates the benefits of leveraging window size classes and adaptive scene strategies.
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