Real-world apps

So far, we have built a dozen or more apps of various complexity. Most of them we designed and tested on a phone.

Of course, in the real world, our apps need to work well on any device and must be able to handle what happens when in either portrait or landscape view (on all devices).

Furthermore, it is often not enough for our apps to just work and look "OK" on different devices. Often, our apps will need to behave differently and appear with a significantly different UI based on whether the device is a phone or a tablet, and in landscape/portrait orientation.

Note

Android supports apps for large screen TVs, smartwatches via the Wear API, virtual reality and augmented reality, as well as "things" for the Internet of Things. We will not be covering the two latter cases in this book, but by the end of the book, it is the author's guess that you will be prepared enough to venture into these topics should you choose to.

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