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Microsoft Surface Duo coming to new markets in 2021

January 14, 2021 Jan 14, 2021 01/14/21
Craig Dunn
Hello Android developers, Last month, Microsoft announced that early in 2021 the Surface Duo will be offered in Canada, United Kingdom, France, and Germany! We are excited to get Surface Duo into the hands of new customers in these new markets, and also to welcome developers in those countries to our community. To celebrate, ...

Microsoft Surface Duo developer year in review

December 29, 2020 Dec 29, 2020 12/29/20
Hakon Strande
Hello dual-screen developers, It was over a year ago – 2nd October 2019 – that Panos introduced the Surface Duo to the world. In the months since, we have shared a number of milestones with you leading up to the product launch (and beyond): We’re incredibly excited to see the Surface Duo released, and thankful for the ...

Hacky Holidays!

December 22, 2020 Dec 22, 2020 12/22/20
Guy Merin
Hello developers, For many people around the world, this time of year is for celebration of holidays and enjoying long-standing traditions. Some folks use the time for hacking - to learn new skills or catch up on the latest technologies, and since 2020 marked the release of the Microsoft Surface Duo, we’d like to take this ...

Dual-screen library update with Jetpack Window Manager

December 10, 2020 Dec 10, 2020 12/10/20
Andrei Cirja
Hello Kotlin and Java developers, We’re excited to announce version 1.0.0-beta1 of our dual-screen libraries for Microsoft Surface Duo, which integrates Google’s Jetpack Window Manager support. We’ve made the underlying device interface swappable, so you can continue to use the existing Display Mask API as long as you wish and...

Fluent UI for Microsoft Surface Duo

November 19, 2020 Nov 19, 2020 11/19/20
Aneesha Kommineni
Hello Kotlin and Java developers, I’m pleased to present our first release of Fluent UI Android controls for Surface Duo. Fluent UI is a user experience framework to help you build attractive apps that are consistent across Android and other platforms. Read more about Fluent UI. To help developers build dual-screen apps we ...

Bringing Sketch 360 to Microsoft Surface Duo

November 12, 2020 Nov 12, 2020 11/12/20
Michael Scherotter
My inspiration Back in 2018, I came up with a way of using a Microsoft Surface to create 360 panoramic sketches and the Microsoft Garage encouraged me to release it as an app, Sketch 360. I created Sketch 360 because I wanted to develop a tool to help me create these immersive sketches more quickly. Because they are sketches from a ...

Dual-screen list-detail with navigation

November 5, 2020 Nov 5, 2020 11/5/20
Cesar Valiente
Hello Kotlin and Java developers! When you’re enhancing your existing Android apps for the Microsoft Surface Duo, you may want to keep your existing single-screen behavior. In today’s blog, I’ll share an example list-detail that supports the traditional back-button behavior in a single screen, but shows the list and detail ...