Android app store screenshot sizes at a glance
Google Play accepts screenshots across several device categories, and each one has its own aspect ratio and dimension rules. Rather than hunting through policy pages, here's every category in one place:
| Asset type | Aspect ratio / orientation | File format | What to confirm before upload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phone | 16:9 (landscape) or 9:16 (portrait) | PNG or JPEG | Exact min/max pixel range in Play Console |
| 7-inch tablet | Separate range from 10-inch | PNG or JPEG | Current accepted dimensions in Play Console |
| 10-inch tablet | Separate range from 7-inch | PNG or JPEG | Current accepted dimensions in Play Console |
| Wear OS | Device-specific, smaller canvas | PNG or JPEG | Current accepted dimensions in Play Console |
| Android TV | Landscape, built for TV display | PNG or JPEG | Current accepted dimensions in Play Console |
| Android Automotive | Landscape, built for in-car display | PNG or JPEG | Current accepted dimensions in Play Console |
| Android XR | Newer category, still evolving | PNG or JPEG | Current accepted dimensions in Play Console |
| Feature graphic | Fixed at 1024 x 500 | PNG or JPEG | One graphic, used for the Play Store listing banner |
Google Play sets and periodically updates these exact pixel ranges. The feature graphic is the one fixed number across the board — 1024 x 500 — everything else is a range that Google defines and can revise, so the Play Console upload screen is the place to check the current figures before you export.
Phone screenshot sizes
Phone screenshots are the ones every listing needs. The rule that matters most is orientation: a screenshot is either 16:9 (landscape, wider than tall) or 9:16 (portrait, taller than wide). You pick one orientation and stick with it across your set — mixing landscape and portrait screenshots in the same listing doesn't work well visually and isn't how listings are typically built.
Within that aspect ratio, Google Play defines a minimum and maximum pixel range for phone screenshots, and that range is confirmed and updated inside Play Console rather than fixed forever on a help page. If you're designing screenshots for multiple projects, it's worth picking one working resolution that sits comfortably inside the current accepted range and exporting everything at that size — consistent output is easier to manage than redesigning per listing.
Tablet and Chromebook screenshot sizes
Tablets are split into two groups: 7-inch and 10-inch. These aren't the same spec scaled up — Google Play treats them as separate categories with their own accepted dimension ranges, and Chromebook listings generally follow the tablet specs rather than having a category of their own.
Whether tablet screenshots are required or optional for a given listing depends on Google Play's current policy for your app type, which is also confirmed in Play Console at upload time rather than being a fixed universal rule. If your app is genuinely used on tablets, including tablet-specific screenshots is worth doing regardless of whether they're strictly mandatory — a stretched phone screenshot looks noticeably worse on a tablet listing than one actually composed for the format.
Wear OS, Android TV, and Android Automotive screenshot sizes
These three categories apply only if your app targets that specific device type, and each has its own canvas:
- Wear OS screenshots are built for a small, often round or square display — the working canvas is much smaller than a phone screenshot and the composition needs to account for that.
- Android TV screenshots are landscape and built around how content reads on a television-sized screen, where text needs to be larger and simpler than it would be on a phone.
- Android Automotive screenshots are landscape as well, designed for an in-car display, where glanceability matters more than density of information.
As with phone and tablet, the exact accepted pixel ranges for each of these are set by Google Play and confirmed in Play Console, since they're specific enough — and updated often enough — that a fixed number here would go stale.
Android XR screenshot size
Android XR is a newer, still-developing category for extended reality devices. If your app supports Android XR, Google Play will have a screenshot specification for it in Play Console, but because this category is actively evolving, it's the one most worth double-checking at upload time rather than relying on a number you saw elsewhere, even recently.
Do you need different screenshots for every device?
Not necessarily — but you do need the right aspect ratio and composition for each category you support.
A phone screenshot and a 10-inch tablet screenshot aren't the same image stretched or shrunk. The aspect ratios differ, and more importantly, what reads well on a small phone screen often looks sparse or oversized on a tablet, and vice versa. The honest answer is:
- If your app is phone-only, you need phone screenshots and nothing else.
- If it also runs on tablets, Wear OS, TV, or Automotive, each of those categories needs its own screenshot set designed for that canvas — not a resized version of your phone set.
- The headline text, callouts, and layout can follow the same visual style across all of them. The underlying image dimensions and composition shouldn't.
What happens if your screenshot is the wrong size
Google Play's upload tool checks each screenshot against the accepted dimension range for its category before the listing can go live. Getting the size and aspect ratio right before you export is what keeps you out of a correction loop — resizing after a failed upload, re-exporting, and uploading again. It's a straightforward fix, but it's an avoidable round trip if you confirm the current accepted range in Play Console before you start designing.
One thing size compliance does not do is guarantee a good-looking listing. A screenshot can be technically within range and still read poorly if the text is too small, the device frame is inconsistent, or the message across the set doesn't hold together. Getting the pixels right is table stakes, not the finish line.
How to resize screenshots fast
The manual route is straightforward: open your raw phone, tablet, or other device screenshot in any design tool, set the canvas to your target aspect ratio, and export in PNG or JPEG. The time cost there is mostly in doing it once per device category, per locale set, and keeping headlines and branding consistent across all of them by hand.
This is the exact gap AppShots is built to close. Instead of manually resizing and recomposing each screenshot per device type, you upload your raw iOS or Android screenshots and AppShots applies device mockups, headlines, feature callouts, backgrounds, and layout, then exports in the store-ready sizes you need — without opening Photoshop or Figma or hiring a designer for a job that's mostly repetitive composition work.
FAQ
What's the minimum screenshot size for Android? There isn't one universal minimum across every category — Google Play sets a different accepted range for phone, 7-inch tablet, 10-inch tablet, Wear OS, TV, and Automotive, and that range is confirmed in Play Console rather than fixed on a single reference page.
What's the 7-inch tablet screenshot size? It's a separate spec from the 10-inch tablet range, set and maintained by Google Play. Check Play Console at upload time for the current accepted dimensions, since these are updated periodically.
Does screenshot size or order affect ranking or featuring? Size and format compliance is a technical requirement for your listing to publish at all — it's not a ranking lever. What screenshots communicate (clear headlines, a logical order, strong first impression) can influence whether someone installs after they land on your listing, but that's a conversion effect, not a change to search ranking or featuring, both of which sit outside what any screenshot tool — including AppShots — controls.
Should I use PNG or JPEG? Both are accepted. PNG tends to hold up better for screenshots with text overlays and sharp UI edges since it doesn't introduce compression artifacts; JPEG produces a smaller file at some cost to crispness. If your screenshots include headline text or callouts, PNG is generally the safer default.