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IT Home reported on October 29 that foldable devices running Android have been around for years, yet app compatibility issues have never been properly resolved, as even Google acknowledges. Google, however, does not plan to keep relying on developers to optimize their apps voluntarily. Instead, it intends to actively advance app compatibility for foldable devices.
On the 28th local time, Android Authority reported that, starting next year, the Google Play Store will assess how apps and games perform on foldable devices and give well-optimized products more exposure and more prominent recommendation placements. Google confirmed at the Android Developer Summit that the specific requirements will be announced later this year.
As the Googlebook laptop ecosystem develops, app compatibility has become more urgent. Phone apps that have not been optimized often encounter various compatibility issues on large screens, and even Google's own apps are no exception.
To address these issues, Google says developers can extend Android apps to laptops and web environments without maintaining separate code for them.
IT Home has learned that Google has also updated its development tools. With a development skill called Compose adaptive skill, AI coding agents can automatically adapt phone apps to devices of different sizes and form factors, including phones, foldable devices, Googlebook laptops, tablets, connected cars and extended reality devices.
Compose adaptive skill can automatically inspect an app's interface and add desktop features such as keyboard shortcuts, custom mouse pointers, hover effects and tooltips.
For foldable devices, the tool can also adjust the layouts of camera and media apps as needed to support tabletop mode when a phone is placed half-folded.
The underlying development frameworks are also being upgraded, including Navigation 3 version 1.2 and the upcoming Compose version 1.13. The latter will officially provide stable support for Grid layouts and Flexbox layouts, helping developers design interfaces that automatically adjust to screen size.