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Design - Devices and Displays. Android powers millions of phones, tablets, and other devices in a wide variety of screen sizes and form factors.

Design - Devices and Displays

By taking advantage of Android's flexible layout system, you can create apps that gracefully scale from large tablets to smaller phones. Be flexible Stretch and compress your layouts to accommodate various heights and widths. Optimize layouts. Supporting Multiple Screens. Android runs on a variety of devices that offer different screen sizes and densities.

Supporting Multiple Screens

For applications, the Android system provides a consistent development environment across devices and handles most of the work to adjust each application's user interface to the screen on which it is displayed. At the same time, the system provides APIs that allow you to control your application's UI for specific screen sizes and densities, in order to optimize your UI design for different screen configurations. For example, you might want a UI for tablets that's different from the UI for handsets. Buick Best Tech App at WIRED Store in Times Square. Android apps » App Cooker. Android Gripes, Why do apps from the same company look worse on Android than on iPhone? Mercedes-Benz.tv iPad/iPhone App.