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Google Wants Developers To Build Better Tablet Apps, Publishes A “Tablet App Quality Checklist”

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http://techcrunch.com – Google’s Nexus 7 tablet has been quite a hit, but there can be little doubt that the average quality of Android tablet apps still ranks behind iOS. Google is clearly aware of this and today, the company is making a new push to get developers to ensure that their apps run well on tablets. To do this, Google just launched a Tablet App Quality Checklist that walks developers through the process of getting their apps tablet-ready. In concert with this launch, Google also just announced that it plans to launch a series of tablet-focused app collections in the Google Play store ahead of the ho (IT news)

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