| page.title=Developer Stories: The Opportunity of Android Tablets |
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| pdage.metaDescription=Developers are investing in a full tablet experience for their apps and seeing those investments pay off big. |
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| <p>"More" and more, developers are investing in a full tablet experience |
| for their apps and are seeing those investments pay off big. The increased |
| screen area on tablets opens up a world of possibilities, allowing for more |
| engagement with the user — which can mean an increase in usage as well as |
| more monetization opportunities. And with the growing wave of Android tablets that |
| continue to hit the market, it’s an important piece of any developer’s mobile |
| offering. </p> |
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| <p>Here are some stories from developers who are seeing real results as they |
| expand their offering to include Android tablets.</p> |
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| <h3>Remember The Milk: Lifting installs with tablet design</h3> |
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| <h5>About the app</h5> |
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| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rememberthemilk.MobileRTM">Remember The Milk</a></li> |
| <li>A feature-packed to-do list app; never forget the milk (or anything else) again</li> |
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| <h5>Tablet Results</h5> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>83% jump in tablet installs following update </li> |
| <li>Nexus 7 is most popular Android device for app </li> |
| <li>Single APK for phones and tablets</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <a href="http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rememberthemilk.MobileRTM"> |
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| <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:12px;">When the Android tablet guidelines |
| came out in 2012, the team at Remember The Milk had already been thinking about |
| a redesign for their <a href="http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rememberthemilk.MobileRTM">feature-packed |
| to-do list app</a>. Omar Kilani, Co-founder of Remember The Milk, explains how |
| <a href="http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/2013/04/the-all-new-remember-the-milk-for-android-and-tablets-too/">updating</a> |
| their app to meet the tablet guidelines lead to an 83% jump in tablet installs: </p> |
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| <p>“We took this as an opportunity to think about how we were going to approach |
| Android tablets differently from a user experience perspective. The guidelines |
| were a helpful resource, and with the extra screen real estate tablets afford, |
| users have the opportunity to see all of their data in context and drill down |
| on more items. All of this is accomplished using a single APK on Play, even though |
| the phone and tablet versions each capture completely different use cases for us.”</p> |
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| <p>“In the month after updating, we saw our tablet installs on Google Play jump 83%, |
| and the Nexus 7 is now the most popular Android device amongst our users. For us, |
| designing for tablets was an investment that has really paid off.”</p> |
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| <p>The team also came out with a number of other goodies — including a new set of |
| widgets and richer notifications, and more ways to provide an immersive experience |
| for their users.</p> |
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| <p class="image-caption"><span style="font-weight:500;">Tablet redesign led to lift |
| in installs</span>: Following the redesign of the Android app, in part to meet the tablet |
| design criteria, Remember The Milk saw an 83% increase in tablet installs.</p> |
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| <h3>Mint: More screen real estate = more engagement</h3> |
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| <h5>About the app</h5> |
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| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mint">Mint.com Personal Finance</a> by Intuit Inc.</li> |
| <li>Financial management app targeting 7- to 10-inch tablets and phones</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <h5>Tablet Results</h5> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Able to offer richer UI features</li> |
| <li>Much higher user engagement</li> |
| <li>Longer sessions — more Android tablet users have sessions longer than 5 minutes</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <a href="http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mint"> |
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| <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:12px;">When Intuit was thinking about |
| expanding their Mint mobile offering to include a version optimized for Android |
| tablets, they knew that taking the layout that worked for phones and simply |
| showing an enlarged version wouldn’t take full advantage of the opportunities |
| that tablets afford.</p> |
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| <p>“We knew we had a lot more real estate, and we wanted to provide a more |
| immersive experience for our users” said Ken Sun, Intuit Group Product Manager |
| at Mint.</p> |
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| <p>Intuit’s Mint app, which has a 4-star rating on Google Play, brings a number |
| of features to Android tablets that aren’t available for phones, including a |
| more visual presentation of personal financial data.</p> |
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| <p>“Whereas our app for phones is used throughout the day for quick sessions, |
| we’ve seen a larger percentage of our tablet usage happen in the evening, for |
| much longer sessions,” said Sun. “People are doing a lot more than just checking |
| their spending. They’re looking at historical trends, re-categorizing |
| transactions, analyzing the data and setting financial goals for the future |
| — digging much deeper and being more thoughtful. One example is how much |
| users are interacting with their own budgets in the tablet app. Customer budget |
| operations (view, edit, drill-down, etc.) are 7x higher on Android tablets than |
| they are on phones.”</p> |
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| <p>Fifty percent more Android tablet users have Mint sessions of 5 minutes or |
| longer than they do on phones. “We’ve found that phone usage is indicative of a |
| customer’s regular financial check-in, while tablet usage points towards more |
| analysis and interaction with that customer’s personal financial data. This is |
| the sort of immersive engagement experience we were looking for; the tablet and |
| phone apps serve as great complements to each other."</p> |
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| <p class="image-caption"><span style="font-weight:500;">Making the most of tablet screens</span>: Mint used the extra screen area on tablets to offer quick access to additional tools and information.</p> |
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| <h3>TinyCo: Monetization opportunities abound on tablets</h3> |
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| <h5>About the app</h5> |
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| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinyco.village">Tiny Village</a> by TinyCo</li> |
| <li>Game targeting 7- to 10-inch tablets and phones</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <h5>Tablet Results</h5> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>35% higher average revenue per paying user (ARPPU)</li> |
| <li>Consistent increase in user retention</li> |
| <li>3x increase in downloads to Android tablets in the last 6 months</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <a href="http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tinyco.village"> |
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| <p>Over a year ago, app developer TinyCo, makers of a suite of games such as |
| Tiny Monsters, decided to prioritize launching across multiple platforms |
| effectively. They chose Android as one of their primary launch platforms because |
| of its large installed base and global reach. They also knew that the growing |
| base of Android tablet users represented a huge opportunity.</p> |
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| <p>Tiny Village was their first title to take advantage of the strategy, and |
| it proved to be a winning one — especially in terms of Android |
| tablets.</p> |
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| <p> “With continued optimization of the gameplay experience and a genuine |
| commitment to our Android offering through our Griffin engine, all of our |
| metrics started to rise,” said Rajeev Nagpal, Head of Product at TinyCo. In |
| fact, they’ve seen Android tablet downloads more than triple in the last six |
| months.</p> |
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| <p>One of the first things they noticed about usage of Tiny Village on |
| tablets was an increase in average revenue per paying user (ARPPU)—about 35% |
| higher than on smaller-screen devices such as phones. Additionally, average |
| revenue per user ARPU is now about 35% higher as well. “The game is just much |
| more immersive on tablet.”</p> |
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| <p>In addition to an increase in monetization metrics, they’ve also seen a |
| consistent increase in retention over other platforms. “These are really |
| important metrics for games — if you can get users to both stay around |
| longer and spend more while they’re there, you have a recipe for success.”</p> |
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| <p class="image-caption"><span style="font-weight:500;">More monetization |
| on tablets</span>: On Android tablets TinyCo has seen higher ARPPU and user |
| retention than on phones.</p> |
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| <h3>Instapaper: Riding the growing wave of Android tablets</h3> |
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| <h5>About the app</h5> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instapaper.android">Instapaper</a> by Mobelux</li> |
| <li>Content-browsing utility that targets 7- to 10-inch tablets and phones</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <h5>Tablet Results</h5> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Tablets are now 50% of the app's installed base.</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <a href="http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instapaper.android"> |
| <img alt="Android app on Google Play" |
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| </a> |
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| <div style="line-height:1.4em;"> |
| <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:12px;">Instapaper for Android is an app |
| for saving web content to read later. Developer Mobelux decided that creating a |
| great UI for Android tablet users would be an essential part of their initial launch |
| plan.</p> |
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| <p>The app launched at the beginning of the summer of 2012, just in time to |
| take advantage of a new tide of Android tablets, including the <span |
| style="white-space:nowrap;">Nexus 7</span> tablet. The app has since seen huge |
| popularity among tablet users, in particular, on Nexus 7. On the day that |
| pre-orders of Nexus 7 began arriving, Mobelux saw a 600% jump in downloads of |
| its app on Google Play.</p> |
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| <p>“We saw a promising new set of Android tablets about to hit the market |
| and wanted to position ourselves to be ready for them” said Jeff Rock of |
| Mobelux. “It was a market that others were hesitant to explore, but the decision |
| to prioritize tablets has paid off very well for us.”</p> |
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| <p>Since that initial 600% jump in downloads, Instapaper for Android has |
| continued to see a successful run on Android tablets. In fact, Android tablets |
| now represent about 50% of their installed base. “With more and more Android |
| tablets coming online, we’re excited to see how our investment in Android |
| tablets continues to pay off.”</p> |
| </div> |
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| <img src="{@docRoot}images/distribute/instapaper.png"> |
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| <div style="width:600px;margin-top:0px;padding:0 90px;"> |
| <p class="image-caption"><span style="font-weight:500;">Popular with |
| tablet users</span>: A great tablet UI and browsing convenience make Instapaper |
| popular with Android tablet users.</p> |
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