This will affect how apps are surfaced in search results and recommendations on the homepage, with the goal of helping users find the apps that are best optimized for their device. We'll be updating our featuring and ranking logic in Play on large screen devices to prioritize high-quality apps and games based on these app quality guidelines. In addition, it will also be promoting those apps that follow the guidelines. Google says that the Play Store will prioritize those applications that follow its large-screen app quality guidelines. Google has announced that it will soon add a feature to the Play Store that will let you filter 'high-quality' apps that are optimized for the big screen experience.
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And now, it's making some moves that will allow you to know if an app that you're going to download will look good on a tablet or not. The company released Android 12L recently which significantly improves the overall experience. I actually think there is going to be another wave of apps here that are thinking tablet-first.Google, for the past few weeks, has been working hard to improve the experience of Android tablets, foldables, and all large-screen devices. The analogy he uses is how in the early days of the smartphone people just brought desktop applications to mobile before realizing they have to build new experiences from the ground up for the new form factors. He, and by extension Google, believe that the tablet form factor will allow for wildly new use cases. If tablets really are going to become this new device for people to be creative and productive, what new apps would take advantage of people who may be doing things stylus-enabled out of the gate? What does that mean for the mobility that you have with a tablet that you don’t even quite have with a laptop? The second, which Miner is more excited about, focuses on encouraging developers to build new tablet-first apps: The first involves seeing how an app can take advantage of additional screen real estate and taking a look at Google’s latest Jetpack Libraries and other things introduced with Android 12L. I think once you cross over that point, you’re not going to be coming back.Ĭontext for Google’s push aside, Miner was asked what developers should do to prepare. I actually think that there’s going to be a crossover point at some point in the not too distant future where there are more tablets sold annually than there are laptops. Specifically, how tablets are very capable and “less expensive than a laptop.” He notes how tablet sales in 2020 approached that of laptop shipments, and believes that will continue post-COVID. What’s most interesting is how Miner frames tablets against laptops. The belief is that tablets started to be just much better for things beyond consumption, and were being used for creativity and productivity and there was a need for more screens and devices to support that.
One data point cited was “keyboard attach rates were getting much higher.” However, Google started seeing large-screen tablet sales taking off in the second half of 2019 even before COVID, with the following year serving as an “accelerant” for growth. It stayed that way for a long period of time and tablet growth kind of stagnated. The media players, the YouTubes, and other apps worked quite well just to scale up that video on a larger screen. Tablets without much investment were good for consumption. Tablets actually took off and the usage that drove that uptake was largely consumption.
We launched the first Android tablet version in 2011. The livestream included a brief appearance from Android co-founder and Google’s current CTO of tablets Rich Miner to answer “what’s different with tablets this time around.” During today’s The Android Show, Google discussed its recent work in the large-screen device space and its grand vision for the form factor, including “tablet-first” apps.