Google Play Screenshot Sizes: The Complete Guide
Screenshot uploads are a more common sticking point in Google Play Console than you'd expect. Google doesn't require pixel-perfect matches the way Apple does, but miss the minimum resolution or a required asset, and your listing simply won't go through. This guide covers the screenshot and graphic sizes Google Play requires.
Phone Screenshots
Google Play Console requires a minimum resolution of 1080 × 1920px for phone screenshots. Files must be JPEG or 24-bit PNG — no alpha channel (transparency) allowed. You can upload as few as 2 and as many as 8.
| Item | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Minimum resolution | 1080 × 1920px |
| File format | JPEG or 24-bit PNG (no alpha channel) |
| Image count | 2 minimum, 8 maximum |
| Aspect ratio | Portrait (9:16) or landscape (16:9) |
If your game is primarily played in portrait, keep the whole set portrait; landscape games should stay landscape throughout. Mixing orientations technically goes through fine, but the carousel on your store page ends up looking disjointed, so most teams pick one orientation and stick with it.
Tablet Screenshots
If your app supports tablets, it's worth uploading separate tablet screenshots rather than just scaling up your phone captures — stretched phone screenshots tend to leave UI elements looking oversized or spacing looking off. Capturing directly at tablet aspect ratio gives a cleaner result. Tablet screenshots follow the same minimum resolution and file format requirements as phone screenshots.
Feature Graphic (Required)
The feature graphic is unique to Google Play and required separately from your screenshots. It's a fixed 1024 × 500px and appears as a horizontal banner at the top of search results, category listings, and featured placements. Leave it blank, and your app gets automatically excluded from the spots where it would run — it deserves just as much attention as your screenshots.
| Item | Size | Required |
|---|---|---|
| Feature graphic | 1024 × 500px | Yes |
| Phone screenshots | 1080 × 1920px minimum | Yes (2–8 images) |
| Tablet screenshots | Same minimums as phone | Recommended if tablet is supported |
App Icon
Your store listing also needs an app icon, separate from your screenshots. The icon for Google Play listing purposes is a 512 × 512px, 32-bit PNG (with alpha channel), uploaded on its own. This is a different file from the adaptive icon actually used inside the app — don't confuse the two.
What Teams Miss Most Often
Google Play's relative flexibility compared to Apple actually makes it easier to get careless. It's not just about hitting the 1080×1920 minimum — uploads with an alpha-channel PNG get rejected, and going over the 8-image limit blocks the upload entirely. It's also common to see a feature graphic that's really just a cropped-down version of a portrait screenshot, forced into the 1024×500 frame. Designing it from scratch as its own horizontal composition produces a noticeably cleaner result.
Rather than resizing each of these by hand, StoreShot's game screenshot templates can export the full set of iOS and Android sizes, including everything Google Play requires, as a single ZIP.
Takeaway
Google Play listing comes down to three things: a 1080×1920 minimum phone screenshot (2 to 8 images), a required 1024×500 feature graphic, and a 512×512 icon. It's not as strict about pixel precision as Apple, but details like the alpha channel restriction and image count limits are easy to miss — worth a final check before you upload.