Posted by Android Team
concepts Made by Tophatch is a digital illustration app that helps creative thinkers bring their visions to life. The app uses an infinitely large canvas format, so its users can sketch, plan, and edit all their big ideas without limit, while its vector-based inks provide the tools needed to refine and reorganize their ideas. Provides accuracy.
For concepts, having more on-screen real estate means more comfort, more creative space, and an overall better user experience. That’s why the app was specially designed large screen In the mind Concept’s designers and engineers are always looking for new ways to extend the large screen capabilities of apps on Android. Thanks to Android’s suite of developer tools and resources, it’s easier than ever.
Appraisal of the Growing Appliances Market
Large screens are the fastest growing segment of Android users, with more 270 million users On tablet, foldable and ChromeOS devices. It’s no surprise that Concept, an app that benefits users by providing them with more screen space, was attracted to the format. The Concepts team was also excited about the innovation with foldables as having a larger screen experience with greater portability gives users more opportunities to use the apps that work best for them.
The Concepts team spends a lot of time evaluating new big screen technologies and experiences, trying to figure out which hardware or software features might benefit the app the most. The team visualizes and storyboards multiple scenarios, shares the best ones with a close-knit beta group, and quickly prototypes to determine if these updates improve UX for its large user base. We do.
For example, the designers at Concepts recently samsung galaxy fold and found that users benefited from having more screen space when the device was folded. with the help of jetpack window manager The developers of the library, Concepts, implemented a feature to automatically collapse the UI when the Galaxy’s large screen was folded, allowing more on-screen space than the UI could expand.
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The first release of Concepts for Android was optimized for ChromeOS and because of this, support for resizable windows was critical to their user experience from the start. Initially, they needed to use a physical device to test for different screen sizes. Now, Concept Teams Can Use Android resizable emulatorWhich makes it very easy to test for different screen sizes.
Android’s APIs and toolkits take over the workload
With Concept the developers aim to make the drawing experience feel as natural as putting pen to paper. For the concept team, this meant achieving as little as zero gap as possible between the stylus tip and the lines drawn on the concept canvas.
When the engineers at Concepts first built the app, they worked hard to make the drawings themselves low-latency. Now, Android’s Graphical API Eliminate the complexity of creating efficient inking.
“The hardware supporting low-latency inking continues to get better, with higher refresh rate screens and more accurate stylus data,” said David Brittain, co-founder and CEO of Concepts’ parent company Tophatch. “Android’s mature set of APIs make this easy.”
Concept engineers also found that the core Android Look The APIs take care of most of the workload to support tablets and foldables and make heavy use of custom views and view group in concepts. The app’s color wheel, for example, is a custom view drawing canvaswhich uses animator for reveal animation. View, Canvas and Animator are all classes from the Android SDK.
“Android’s tools and platform are making it easier to develop and increasing the number of options for testing, with well-structured APIs to address a wide variety of screen sizes and input methods. Plus, Kotlin allows us to create concise, readable code,” said David.
Concepts users love the big screen
Tablets and foldables represent the bulk of the concept’s investment and user base, and the company doesn’t see that changing any time soon. Currently, tablets deliver 50% more revenue per user than smartphone users. Tablets are also among the top 10 most-used devices among Concepts’ users, the other two being ChromeOS devices.
Additionally, Concept’s monthly users spend 70% more time engaging with the app on a tablet than on a traditional smartphone. The app’s rating on tablets is also 0.3 stars higher.
“We look forward to future improvements in platform usability and customization while increasing experimentation with portable form factors. Continued efforts in this area will ensure higher user adoption in the future,” said David.
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