The Google Play developer console is saying under optimization tips:
Design Your app for tablets: Your layout should make use of the available space on tablets
My app does use the entire screen. Does anyone know why they think I am not? Does anyone else have this issue? Is there something that is supposed to be in the manifest that is missing? So far I haven’t found anything on Google.
Thanks.
It means having big screen you are not, for eg. having more objects on screen but you make them bigger. Remember that tablets usually doesn’t more pixels - they have this pixels just bigger (tablets can have less pixels then your smartphone so everything is bigger overall)
Hi @bangerlm,
Is Google actually warning you specifically about your app and reporting that it’s not using the entire tablet screen? Or, is this just a general design recommendation from them?
Did you utilize dynamic scaling and build in support for different screen resolutions and ratios? This tutorial speaks about it:
http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2013/09/10/modernizing-the-config-lua/
Hope this helps,
Brent Sorrentino
It is a design recommendation, that says that apps that are designed for tablets are are showcased in the Play Store in the “Designed for Tablet” list. It seems like it is an automatic flag of some sort, but I just can’t figure out what exactly it is based on.
I used my own dynamic scaling paradigm.
What they are saying is that the expectations of tablet users are different than that of phone users. For instance, if you download a newspaper company’s mobile app, you will find that everything is in a tableView that takes up the full screen with a tabBar at the bottom and a title bar at the top. You tap on the row and it opens up the story in a new window. But if you get that same company’s tablet app you will find that it’s laid out in a way that use blocks, perhaps 2 side by side that are filled with a photo with the story’s headline overlaid on it.
You can also look at the native Facebook app and see it on a phone vs. a tablet and you will see (though not as obvious) differences in how the app works and behaves.
So is the consensus that, it isn’t an automatic flag, but someone actually opened the app and noticed that it isn’t different than the phone version and flagged it as such?
I think that’s a case of generic information that everyone gets. I don’t know that they are doing any test and I’m pretty sure it’s not a human test.
It means having big screen you are not, for eg. having more objects on screen but you make them bigger. Remember that tablets usually doesn’t more pixels - they have this pixels just bigger (tablets can have less pixels then your smartphone so everything is bigger overall)
Hi @bangerlm,
Is Google actually warning you specifically about your app and reporting that it’s not using the entire tablet screen? Or, is this just a general design recommendation from them?
Did you utilize dynamic scaling and build in support for different screen resolutions and ratios? This tutorial speaks about it:
http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2013/09/10/modernizing-the-config-lua/
Hope this helps,
Brent Sorrentino
It is a design recommendation, that says that apps that are designed for tablets are are showcased in the Play Store in the “Designed for Tablet” list. It seems like it is an automatic flag of some sort, but I just can’t figure out what exactly it is based on.
I used my own dynamic scaling paradigm.
What they are saying is that the expectations of tablet users are different than that of phone users. For instance, if you download a newspaper company’s mobile app, you will find that everything is in a tableView that takes up the full screen with a tabBar at the bottom and a title bar at the top. You tap on the row and it opens up the story in a new window. But if you get that same company’s tablet app you will find that it’s laid out in a way that use blocks, perhaps 2 side by side that are filled with a photo with the story’s headline overlaid on it.
You can also look at the native Facebook app and see it on a phone vs. a tablet and you will see (though not as obvious) differences in how the app works and behaves.
So is the consensus that, it isn’t an automatic flag, but someone actually opened the app and noticed that it isn’t different than the phone version and flagged it as such?
I think that’s a case of generic information that everyone gets. I don’t know that they are doing any test and I’m pretty sure it’s not a human test.