Expanding to new form factors: Tablet, Wear & TV
summary
Practical steps and concrete examples: tablets benefit from landscape layouts that show galleries and richer content for discovery—Expedia and BBC-style apps and subscriptions perform well; TV apps can be built as Chromecast receivers or full Android TV apps using the Leanback support library, NDK and controller support, enabling things like Google Play Movies’ scene lookups and Riptide GP2’s four-player local plus real-time multiplayer across living rooms; wearables accept enhanced phone notifications or a bundle watch APK with phone that auto-installs, enable voice reply and short micro‑interactions, and are adding offline music and GPS; no shipment numbers are disclosed.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:24Choosing apps per platform
- 10:20Building for tablets, wear & TV
- 14:35Monetization strategies
- 21:38Android TV platform differences
- 24:26Tablets vs PCs & web apps
- 27:37Android TV growth & content
- 29:43Wearables UX challenges
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