Land your apps on Googlebook with adaptive development

Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager, and Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, Android Developer Googlebook introduces a new category of laptops built on a shared Android foundation. High-performance hardware from partners such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and Asus, combines mobile convenience with desktop power. Googlebook offers high-resolution OLED touchscreens, dedicated keyboards, and precision trackpads with all-day battery life and OS-level Gemini Intelligence.

With Googlebook, users can transition fluidly from quick interactions on their phones to rich, immersive sessions on their laptop. Bringing your app to Googlebook opens up valuable opportunities for you across the Android ecosystem. Google Play highlights optimized titles with dedicated badging, enhanced search, and featured spots across curated store homepages.  Delivering this level of quality also prepares your app for the Apps Experience Program, where you can enroll to unlock a new program rate card designed to drive business growth.

Even better, when users set up their new Googlebook using their Android phone, optimized apps are prominently highlighted for easy transfer, giving your app day-one presence on their new device. Optimized for desktop badging and dedicated collections on Google Play. You don’t need to build a separate app from the ground up to take advantage of this reach.

The app includes all common text editor features, including extensive syntax-highlighting options. We got Googlebook’s text editor app to run on Android, and it looks great.

Here’s what Googlebooks’ text editor looks like on Android. We got the app to run on an Android phone and tablet, revealing some of its features in the process.

Users will have extensive syntax-highlighting options, a find-and-replace function, and much more in the Text app for Googlebooks. Following months of rumors and leaks, Googlebooks are finally official.

Pre-orders are live now, but you’ll have to wait until October 4 to get your hands on the new laptop range. We’ve already seen how features like Continue On enable smooth switching between a Googlebook and a phone, but what about apps.

We can now exclusively reveal how a common Googlebook app will look and function, but not in the way you’re probably expecting.

Adaptive development is how modern Android apps naturally scale across large displays, new device postures, and emerging form factors. If your app already embraces adaptive layouts, it is primed for Googlebooks.

By building on your existing foundation of adaptive UI, window size classes, and multi-input support, you can deliver an optimized experience. Adaptive layouts reorganizing mobile views into a multi-pane experience.

Anchor your app in desktop fundamentals On a laptop, your app operates within a desktop environment where user expectations shift toward higher information density, precision input, and active multitasking. Following desktop development and design guidance provides the principles needed to make the most of this experience.

Instead of simply stretching mobile interfaces across a wide screen, an adaptive layout reorganizes content into functional groupings. Adopt a multi-pane architecture to allow your UI to expand, reflow, or reveal richer detail as window boundaries change.

With Navigation 3, you can implement adaptive scene strategies to coordinate multi-pane layouts directly from your back stack. Use ListDetailSceneStrategy and SupportingPaneSceneStrategy to enable side-by-side layouts when expanded window space is available.

Scene decorators let you wrap screens with persistent desktop navigation rails. Pair these patterns with layout primitives like Grid and FlexBox, and soon alongside experimental MediaQuery and Styles APIs, to organize complex content and adjust visual styles dynamically for desktop displays.