{"id":2326,"date":"2019-03-27T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T09:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/2019\/03\/27\/5-facts-you-should-know-about-android-tablet-app-development\/"},"modified":"2019-03-27T09:41:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T09:41:19","slug":"5-facts-you-should-know-about-android-tablet-app-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/2019\/03\/27\/5-facts-you-should-know-about-android-tablet-app-development\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Facts you should know about Android tablet app development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to its user-friendly interface, its customized possibilities and the compatibility with apps, Android is the mobile platform the most used in the world. As a mobile agency and app marketing agency, Swiss Tomato developed several apps for Android. Here are a few advices for Android tablet development.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>The UX Design on Android tablet is unique<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019re neither in front of a smartphone, neither on a computer. The Android tablet design is unique. \u00a0You have to think about the space you got and provide the best UX. There is indeed plenty of tablets which use an Android system, apps should adapt to each of them while optimizing its content. As an app development agency, we recommend you to use a flexible design with big images\/elements. \u00a0The navigation should be as user-friendly as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>AppWidget : a friendly feature<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to add a slight advantage to your app, you should definitely think about an AppWidget. They are this tiny app elements that stay on the tablet\u2019s home screen. First, they are simple and fun, plus they are a reminder of your app. The AppWidgets have to remain user-friendly and small. You don\u2019t want them to occupy a lot of space. Finally, they shouldn\u2019t use a lot of energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Data sharing on Android<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every app should ask permission to use its users\u2019 personal data. It is very important to keep the users\u2019 privacy. Note down which data on the phone you need to use, and then make sure you notice your users when they download or open the app.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Rotation of the display: on or off<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the Android tablet app development, know that you have 3 choices concerning the rotation of the display:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can choose to rotate automatically the app. In this case, it will work only horizontally (landscape).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can let Android decide: in this case, your app will have to be responsive since it will work vertically or horizontally.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can forbid Android to rotate your app. It will then only work vertically (portrait).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>You may want to block sleep mode<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s more annoying than an app which keeps on activate the sleep mode when you\u2019re not touching the screen ? This advice is useful for apps such as newspaper, ebook reading apps\u2026 In a nutshell: not every app needs a constant screen touch. \u00a0Know that you can block the sleep mode so that the screen won\u2019t switch off during your app\u2019s use. It will make your users enjoy your app without interruption. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to its user-friendly interface, its customized possibilities and the compatibility with apps, Android is the mobile platform the most used in the world. As a mobile agency and app marketing agency, Swiss Tomato developed several apps for Android. Here are a few advices for Android tablet development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":{"first_post_thumbnail":"","post_thumbnail":"","home_slider_image":2330,"custom_class":""},"featured_image_big_url":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image1.jpg","featured_image_url":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image1.jpg","date_formatted":" 27, 2019","month_number":"3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstomato.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}