1 page.title=Remember The Milk lifts installs with tablet design 2 page.metaDescription=The team at Remember The Milk redesigned their app for tablets. 3 page.tags="developerstory", "apps", "googleplay" 4 page.image=images/cards/distribute/stories/remember-the-milk.jpg 5 page.timestamp=1456340902 6 7 @jd:body 8 9 10 <h3>Background</h3> 11 12 <div class="figure" style="width:113px"> 13 <img src="{@docRoot}images/distribute/stories/rememberthemilk-icon.png" 14 height="113" /> 15 </div> 16 17 <p> 18 When the Android tablet guidelines came out, the team at Remember The Milk had 19 already been thinking about a redesign for 20 <a class="external-link" 21 href="http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rememberthemilk.MobileRTM"> 22 Remember The Milk</a> their feature-packed to-do list app; never forget the 23 milk (or anything else) again. 24 </p> 25 26 <h3>What they did</h3> 27 28 <p> 29 We took this as an opportunity to think about how we were going to approach 30 Android tablets differently from a user experience perspective, says Omar 31 Kilani, Co-founder of Remember The Milk. The guidelines were a helpful 32 resource, and with the extra screen real estate tablets afford, users have 33 the opportunity to see all of their data in context and drill down on more 34 items." 35 </p> 36 37 <h3>Results</h3> 38 39 <div class="figure" style="width:367px"> 40 <img 41 src="{@docRoot}images/distribute/stories/rememberthemilk-screenshot.png" 42 srcset= 43 "{@docRoot}images/distribute/stories/rememberthemilk-screenshot.png 1x 44 {@docRoot}images/distribute/stories/rememberthemilk-screenshot_2x.png 2x"> 45 <p class="img-caption"> 46 Tablet version of Remember The Milk 47 </p> 48 </div> 49 50 <p> 51 In addition to the basic changes to bring the app to tablets, the team also 52 came out with a number of other goodies including a new set of widgets and 53 richer notifications, and more ways to provide an immersive experience for 54 their users. And importantly, following the guidelines meant they could 55 deliver a <b>single APK for phones and tablets</b>. 56 </p> 57 58 <p> 59 Following the 60 <a class="external-link" 61 href="http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/2013/04/the-all-new-remember-the-milk-for-android-and-tablets-too/"> 62 update</a> of the Android app, in part to meet the tablet design criteria, 63 Remember The Milk saw an <b>83% increase in tablet installs</b>. They also 64 noted that Nexus 7 was theat most popular Android device for the app. 65 </p> 66 67 <p> 68 Omar Kilani, concludesd that For us, designing for tablets was an investment that has really paid off. 69 </p> 70 71 <h3>Get started</h3> 72 73 <p> 74 Find out more about creating a tablet version of your app by reviewing the 75 <a href="http://developer.android.com/distribute/essentials/quality/tablets.html"> 76 Tablet App Quality</a> guidelines and growing your user base. 77 </p> 78
