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Advanced Android™ Application Development, Fourth Edition
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Advanced Android™ Application Development, Fourth Edition

by Joseph Annuzzi Jr., Lauren Darcey, Shane Conder
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
624 pages
16h 56m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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10. Development Best Practices for Tablets, TVs, and Wearables

The Android platform may have started as a smartphone platform, but it has quickly moved into other device form factors. Android tablets have been especially popular. For TV, Google released Google TV. Most recently, the Android Wear SDK, released as a developer preview, will allow Android to work on smaller wearables.

Google has also released its design and development guidelines for these different types of devices, focused on maximizing where the devices are similar and handling the differences as necessary. In this chapter, we talk about some of the best practices to use when developing for different types of devices such as tablets, TVs, and wearables.

Understanding Device Diversity ...

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