Designing Android apps for tablets

Question

In the Play developer console it says:

Your APK does not seem to be designed for tablets

But I have added layouts to layout

Answer 1

After having this same problem and foraging through several forums, what worked for me was changing the targetSDKVersion in the manifest to 11. You can change either minSDKVersion OR targetSDKVersion, as long as one of them is at 11. Also if you use any plugins (like Google Play Services), there's a chance they included their own manifest file somewhere, so make sure ALL the manifest have the same SDK values or your build will not run.

Answer 2

If you are sure that folder layout-sw600dp, layout-sw600dp-land, layout-sw720dp and layout-sw720dp-land are well written, i think that it is not necessary to write this part of code:

<supports-screens android:resizeable="true"
      android:smallScreens="true"
      android:normalScreens="true"
      android:largeScreens="true"
      android:xlargeScreens="true"
      android:anyDensity="true" />

If you plan to target all Android devices. Try it!

Then check if you already posted some screeshot for 10" Tablets and 7" Tablets in their relative section. I had this warning until i posted some screenshots.

Answer 3

I was able to solve it by uploading another screenshot for 10-inch tablet which contains less white space than previous my screenshot.

Answer 4

On the link https://developer.android.com/distribute/marketing-tools/device-art-generator they have mentioned a note

Do not use graphics created here in your feature image or screenshots for your Google Play store listing, using the screenshot alone without framing is recommended. See the Google Play graphics guidelines.

I have tried updating screenshot without device frame and the warning is gone.

Answer 5

Replacing folders layout-sw600dp, layout-sw600dp-land, layout-sw720dp and layout-sw720dp-land with layout-xlarge, layout-xlarge-land added a new message: "your apk does not seem to be designed for tablets."

Solved the problem after what's stated here.

Take advantage of extra screen area available on tablets

• Look for opportunities to include additional content or use an alternative treatment of existing content.

• Use multi-pane layouts on tablet screens to combine single views into a compound view. This lets you use the additional screen area more efficiently and makes it easier for users to navigate your app.

The problem was really the white space and had nothing to do with the xmls.

I managed to make the message for 7i tabs go away by rearranging the layouts to cover the screen and not leave too much white space. But not for the 10i tablets as the area is too big and my app has very less content. I must consider additional content.

Answer 6

I had "Your layout should make use of the available space on tablets" message after uploading first draft of the new application. I've spend an hour trying to change layout of my single activity, tried different folder names, even removed all activities with their layouts - nothing helped. I can confirm @Wytas answer. My problem was that for a draft new app I've uploaded screenshot and promo images which were completely black stub images (meant to be updated later). Once I changed screenshots & promo images to the ones taken from another app (which didn't have that warning message in developer console) the message is gone! I believe Google Play just analyzes screenshots (and maybe promo images) automatically, looking for patches of the uniform color and considers it as bad "layout".