subject: Are Your Android Apps Are Ready For Tablet Industry [print this page] Google is going to be more invariable with the applications that are planning to make their way to Android's Google Play. After the rising success of Nexus7 and other Android tablets brands splurging in the market makes Android tablets a very competitive and progressive market. More and more Android apps developers are working on the concept of build once and ship everywhere but this has lead to some disastrous results while running phone apps on tablets.
This is reason why Google was ajar criticized by the experts for not not offering quality apps for its tablets. The issue came into more limelight when Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a crisp comments on Yelp app of Android tablets. He wrote the application has lot of white space, text is small which makes it hard to read while it runs almost perfectly on iPad.
This is like an alarm for the Google and its experienced Android application developers that it's a high time to prove that they have the potential and caliber to deliver top notch apps for its valuable users. Google has been a giant name in the Search engines so it understand the requisite of giving the top quality results and services.
There are many developers across the industry who are keenly interested in developing apps which run successfully on Android phones as well as on the tablets but they hardly follow any stern standard to check whether the app is of any worth or not. May be, this is the reason why Apple is more ahead in the stats of selling paid apps than free apps. It is because from the preface Apple always focused on high quality apps no matter for phones or tablets. Google now have to geared up to match standards and regulations followed by its counterpart.
So, to normalize the uneven standards followed by Android apps developers, Google now announced some of the key areas which need to stringently taken care of by the developers making apps for tablets.
Optimize your app layout as per the screen size
Adjust fonts and touch targets
Adjust your homescreen widgets
Declare tablet screen support
Avoid malware apps to get circulated
focus on smooth flow and adequate utilization of space
Let's hope these standards will certainly raise the level of Android apps for tablets. If the developers can bit more diligently towards tablet development then it is sure that Android will not be a loser no matter where Apple stands.
