Chapter 17

Android Tablets

What's in This Chapter?

• Designing a tablet user interface (UI)
• Working with the action bar to use the extra screen space effectively
• Working with fragments to divide the screen and use the extra real estate effectively

Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) has been available since early 2011. Unfortunately, the initial Android tablets based on Android 3.x were not well accepted in the market. Thankfully, Android tablet shipments have ticked up with the release of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS)). Android 4.0 brings together features from the phone and tablet in much the same way that the Apple iPad and iPhone operating systems were separate until iOS 4.2.