Build better UIs across form factors with Android Studio

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Android Studio now analyzes rendered layouts across four Reference Devices and flags issues with Visual Linting (e.g., bottom nav on medium/expanded windows) while Compose gets material3 window size classes plus multi-preview annotations to show phone/foldable/tablet variants. Runtime tools include a Resizable emulator that toggles three reference sizes, three desktop AVDs, Wear OS emulators with hardware controls, the Wear Pairing Assistant, and Direct Surface Launch for tiles and complications.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:50Viewbased layouts
3. 6:37Window size classes
4. 11:45New deployment tools

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