Apps that employ responsive layouts and automatically adapt to different screen
sizes offer additional value to users and provide more productive, engaging user
experiences.

Responsive layouts dynamically format and position elements such as buttons,
text fields, and dialogs for an optimal user experience. Automatically offer
users of your app additional value on larger screens by utilizing responsive
design practices. Whether it's more text visible at a glance, more actions on
screen, or larger, more accessible tap targets, responsive practices provide an
enhanced experience for users of larger screens.

## Add value through responsive design

![](https://developer.android.com/static/wear/images/design/quality-responsive-do.png)  
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### Do

- Use the M3 Compose component library which has built-in responsive and adaptive behavior.
- Utilize responsive layouts, which automatically and smoothly adjust to fill the available space across screen sizes.  
![](https://developer.android.com/static/wear/images/design/quality-responsive-dont.png)  
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### Don't

- Stretch UI elements---including text fields, buttons, dialogs---to fill extra space.
- Increase the sizes of fonts, unless they're serving a primarily graphic purpose.

## Examples

The following images show examples of apps that are responsive and optimized.


### Edge-hugging buttons

![](https://developer.android.com/static/wear/images/design/quality-edge-hugging-buttons.png)

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### List of cards

![](https://developer.android.com/static/wear/images/design/quality-list-cards.png)

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### List of switchers and buttons

![](https://developer.android.com/static/wear/images/design/quality-list-switchers-buttons.png)

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### Tile with image cards

![](https://developer.android.com/static/wear/images/design/quality-tile-image-cards.png)

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### List of cards with images

![](https://developer.android.com/static/wear/images/design/quality-list-cards-images.png)

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### Tile with graph

![](https://developer.android.com/static/wear/images/design/quality-tile-graph.png)

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