Android Business Application for a Tablet

[gvk5904]

Hi,

I am in the process of documenting feasibility study of introducing Android Tablet for our business.

With the availability of various screen sizes of android tablets (7",7.7",8.9",9" &10.1")...my question is

Does one App fits for all screen sizes or do we need to customise app differently according to the screen size.

As we are not sure to adapt a standard size tablet or give a choose to the employees to pick size of their choice.

Any inputs will be greatly apperciated.

Thanks for your time

 

[thibaultj]

Android provides built in way to customize your apps depending on screen-size and density. You can have a very basic example here.

According to my experience, though, it's not always easy to customize an app for multi-size support, and a lot of existing apps lack support for big screens. They work, they just display bigger, instead of effectively using additional space.

Are you planning do develop your own business apps, or are you going to use existing ones ?

 

[gvk5904]

Thanks for the inputs ....helpful.
We are planning to develop our own business app (NOT the existing one).

So if i understand it correctly the app should be developed/customised/optimised to the screen size.Even tough they will work for different screen size by displaying bigger or smaller by using additional space.

CAN YOU PLEASE CONFIRM MY UNDERSTANDING

Thanks for your time.

 

[thibaultj]

By default, the same interface will be used and displayed bigger or smaller according to the device, unless you specificaly develop custom uis depending on the screen size.