Surface Duo Blog

Improved navigation support in TwoPaneLayout

June 8, 2023 Jun 8, 2023 06/8/23

Kristen Halper

Hello Jetpack Compose developers, This week, we’re excited to announce an update to our TwoPaneLayout library! You can now use TwoPaneLayoutNav with destinations that accept navigation arguments. This new feature was originally suggested by two developers in our feedback forum, so special thanks to @tscholze and @Papes96 ...

Microsoft Build 2023 recap

June 1, 2023 Jun 1, 2023 06/1/23

Guy Merin

Hello mobile developers, Microsoft Build 2023 took place last week, with a big focus on AI technologies. You can find the complete catalog of sessions on the Build website, but we’ve selected a few sessions below that cover topics of interest for mobile developers. The age of AI These sessions cover some of the high-level ...

Blossoming love for Compose animation

May 25, 2023 May 25, 2023 05/25/23

Kristen Halper

Hello Jetpack Compose developers, Today we’ll be finishing up our blog series on animations in Jetpack Compose! This content was inspired by Nicole Terc’s Composable Sheep talk from droidcon NYC. Over the past two weeks, we covered some basics graphics, animation canvases, and basic animations. This week, we’ll polish ...

Blooming love for Compose animation

May 18, 2023 May 18, 2023 05/18/23

Kristen Halper

Hello Jetpack Compose developers, Today we’ll be continuing our blog series on animations in Jetpack Compose! This content was inspired by Nicole Terc’s Composable Sheep talk from droidcon NYC. More basic animations We’ll be continuing to use our drawSunflower method and Sketch composable to build animations in this ...

Budding love for compose animation

May 11, 2023 May 11, 2023 05/11/23

Kristen Halper

Hello Jetpack Compose developers, Last week, we did some Compose animation work to build a typing indicator in a chat app. For our next blog series, I’ll be diving into more animation topics with a project inspired by Nicole Terc’s Composable Sheep talk from droidcon NYC. Her composable sheep talk series inspired me to work on ...

JetchatGPT improvements: error handling and animations

May 4, 2023 May 4, 2023 05/4/23

Kristen Halper

Hello prompt engineers and Jetpack Compose developers, Last week, we introduced the JetchatGPT sample to show you how to integrate the OpenAI chat API into an Android app. Instead of building requests manually like in previous blog posts, we showed you how to use the openai-kotlin client library to make it easier to interact with the ...

Jetchat with OpenAI on Android

April 27, 2023 Apr 27, 2023 04/27/23

Craig Dunn, Kristen Halper, Parker Schroeder

Hello prompt engineers, The last three blogs have been about exploring the OpenAI API completion, edit, and image endpoints from Android, using HttpClient and crafting JSON requests and responses. This post is about implementing the chat API in an Android app, using the open-source client library openai-kotlin on GitHub. The library...

Does OpenAI on Android dream of electronic sheep

April 20, 2023 Apr 20, 2023 04/20/23

Parker Schroeder, Kristen Halper

Hello prompt engineers, We’re back with another blog post on using OpenAI in Android applications! So far in this blog series, we’ve covered: Last week, we talked about the different API endpoint options and showed you some examples of how to use the Edits API. Today, we’ll be focusing more on the...

OpenAI API endpoints

April 13, 2023 Apr 13, 2023 04/13/23

Craig Dunn

Hello prompt engineers, Last week we implemented OpenAI APIs in a basic text editor sample to add features like spell checking. We used the ‘default’ completions endpoint which accepts a prompt string and returns the result, but there are other APIs that are suited to different purposes. For last week’s example, there is a better ...

ChatGPT on Android with OpenAI

April 6, 2023 Apr 6, 2023 04/6/23

Craig Dunn

Hello prompt engineers, OpenAI has been in the news a lot recently, with the release of ChatGPT 4 and the integration of Large Language Model (LLM)-driven features into a variety of products and services including Bing, GitHub, and Microsoft 365 applications. Inspired by Syncfusion’s blog post on adding ChatGPT to their ....