Adapting your website to support new possibilities of dual-screen devices

October 15, 2020 Oct 15, 2020 10/15/20
Alexis Menard (Intel)
Hello there, fellow web developers! In an earlier blog post, we introduced the upcoming CSS @media feature primitives and the getWindowSegments() API for dual-screen and foldable devices. In this blog post, we will look at how Kenneth Rohde Christiansen and myself created and adapted our existing Foldship demo to take ...

Developing for Microsoft Surface Duo accessories

October 8, 2020 Oct 8, 2020 10/8/20
Craig Dunn
Hello Surface Duo developers, Microsoft recently announced new Surface devices and accessories, so this week we’re looking at some of the accessories that work with Surface Duo and how you can accommodate them in your apps. Microsoft Surface Pens The Surface Slim Pen and Surface Pen both work great with the Surface Duo, ...

Adding Microsoft Surface Duo support to the Flokk application

October 1, 2020 Oct 1, 2020 10/1/20
John Wiese
Hello Flutter developers! During the final week of July, Microsoft held its annual hackathon. The event has had different names over the years, but the idea has remained the same; people from across the company come together to work on projects they are interested in. There are many different types of projects, some are simply a new ...

Build pixel-perfect Microsoft Surface Duo apps with Uno Platform

September 29, 2020 Sep 29, 2020 09/29/20
Agnès Zitte (Nventive)
Hello Microsoft Surface Duo developers! Today’s post was contributed by Nventive, the publishers of the Uno Platform. In previous blog posts, the Surface Duo team demonstrated how you can build dual-screen apps using Java and Kotlin, Xamarin and C#, Flutter, React Native, Web, and games with Unity. Today’s blog post shows how UWP and...

droidcon webinar recap

September 22, 2020 Sep 22, 2020 09/22/20
Cesar Valiente
Hello Android developers! Last week, Hakon and I talked about building dual-screen experiences as part of the droidcon webinar series. We were joined by Andras Nemeth from Atlassian, to talk about enhancing the Jira mobile app for dual-screen devices. You can watch the recording online: Top questions and answers ...

Enhancing the Microsoft Surface Duo OneDrive experience

September 17, 2020 Sep 17, 2020 09/17/20
Lin Wang
Beginning last fall, I had the opportunity to work with the Surface Duo OneDrive feature team to redesign and polish the OneDrive app user experience to make it shine on Surface Duo. Many thanks and kudos to the team: Eli Waalkes, Daniela Dimitrova, Hansel Ip, Eirini Tsantouli, James Tong, Tola Adeola, and Lin Wang. Now that...

Enhancing Microsoft News for dual-screens

September 15, 2020 Sep 15, 2020 09/15/20
Thai Nguyen
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to work with a great team of interns to bring Microsoft News to the Microsoft Surface Duo. The interns are: Throughout the internship, the interns learned about Microsoft’s engineering process as well as Surface Duo and Android development. Now that the ...

Microsoft Surface Duo is released

September 10, 2020 Sep 10, 2020 09/10/20
Guy Merin
Android Developers, it’s Microsoft Surface Duo release day! Today marks a very special day for us, it’s Surface Duo release day, and the device will be in customers hands starting today. We’re very excited to see all the apps you will build that utilize dual-screens and this new form factor, and our Surface Duo Developer Experience...

New React Native dual-screen navigation module

September 8, 2020 Sep 8, 2020 09/8/20
Greg Taylor
Hello, React Native for Android developers! In a previous blog post, we discussed these existing React Native dual-screen features: DualScreenInfo to find information about the device, and TwoPaneView to get assistance with building dual-screen apps. Today’s post is about a new module we’ve released for JavaScript and ...