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TIER 3 — Large screen ready
Large screen devices often include a keyboard, mouse, or trackpad for enhanced
user input and interactivity.
Enable your app to support:
- Input from an external keyboard
- Context switching between physical and virtual keyboards
- Basic mouse and trackpad interactions, such as click, select, and scroll
Next steps
For more information about how to extend your app's input capabilities, see:
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Last updated 2025-02-10 UTC.
[null,null,["Last updated 2025-02-10 UTC."],[],[],null,["# Keyboard, mouse, and trackpad\n\nTIER 3 --- Large screen ready\n| **Objective:** Make your app [large screen ready](/docs/quality-guidelines/large-screen-app-quality#large_screen_ready) by meeting the [LS-I1](/docs/quality-guidelines/large-screen-app-quality#LS-I1) and [LS-I2](/docs/quality-guidelines/large-screen-app-quality#LS-I2) keyboard, mouse, and trackpad requirements of the [Large screen app\n| quality](/docs/quality-guidelines/large-screen-app-quality) guidelines.\n\nLarge screen devices often include a keyboard, mouse, or trackpad for enhanced\nuser input and interactivity.\n\nEnable your app to support:\n\n- Input from an external keyboard\n- Context switching between physical and virtual keyboards\n- Basic mouse and trackpad interactions, such as click, select, and scroll\n\nNext steps\n----------\n\nFor more information about how to extend your app's input capabilities, see:\n\n- [Input compatibility on large screens --- Compose](/develop/ui/compose/touch-input/input-compatibility-on-large-screens)\n- [Input compatibility on large screens --- views](/develop/ui/views/touch-and-input/input-compatibility-on-large-screens)"]]
