Surface Duo Blog

New dual-screen controls preview

July 30, 2020 Jul 30, 2020 07/30/20

Cristian Verdes

Hello Microsoft Surface Duo Android developers! This week we’ve updated and refactored our controls to help you build dual-screen applications with less work and more functionality. The classes in the previous release of our library are still available: However, we have re-packaged the controls into ...

The Dual-Screen Developer Experience: Interview with Tobias Scholze

July 23, 2020 Jul 23, 2020 07/23/20

Hakon Strande

Hi Android Developers! In today’s post, we are sharing our recent interview with Tobias Scholze, a senior software engineer for iOS B2B applications in a Munich-based platform solution agency, to learn more about his experience exploring the value of a dual-screen mobile devices like the Microsoft Surface Duo. Here are some resources to ...

Microsoft Surface Duo Emulator updated with Jetpack Window Manager preview

July 16, 2020 Jul 16, 2020 07/16/20

Guy Merin

Hello Android dual-screen developers! Today we're excited to share the latest Surface Duo emulator preview. Since our last update, we’ve been busy incorporating feedback and adding new features. What’s new in updated build 2020.710.3: You can download the latest build for Windows, macOS, or Linux at the Microsoft ...

New Microsoft Surface Duo app samples

July 9, 2020 Jul 9, 2020 07/9/20

Parker Schroeder

Hello Microsoft Surface Duo developers! Kristen and I are interns on the Surface Duo Developer Experience team, and we’re excited to announce two new Microsoft Surface Duo dual-screen samples available that embody some of our dual-screen UX patterns. You can find them on GitHub at github.com/microsoft/surface-duo-app-samples. Photo ...

Hinge Angle on Microsoft Surface Duo

July 2, 2020 Jul 2, 2020 07/2/20

Joy Liu

Hello Surface Duo developers! In our previous blog post, we mentioned how to adjust the hinge angle in the Surface Duo emulator. Today we are going to present some ideas about how to take advantage of this unique behavior of the Surface Duo device. As we discussed in How to Bring Your Android Apps to Surface Duo, your Android...

Surface Duo testing tips & tricks

June 26, 2020 Jun 26, 2020 06/26/20

Cesar Valiente

Hello Microsoft Surface Duo developers, Today’s post contains some tips to help automate the Surface Duo emulator for testing. Use the latest emulator Tip number one: install the latest emulator from Microsoft Developer Center to ensure you have all our latest fixes, feature enhancements, and performance improvements. The Surface Duo ...

Lighting-Up a Flutter application on Microsoft Surface Duo

June 18, 2020 Jun 18, 2020 06/18/20

John Wiese

Hello Flutter developers! In our last post, Get Started with Flutter on Surface Duo, we walked you through how to add the Surface Duo SDK to your Flutter project and how to use the SDK to obtain information from the SDK library. We can now tell if the device we are running on is a dual-screen device, if your application is running on one ...

Dual-screen web experiences preview

June 11, 2020 Jun 11, 2020 06/11/20

Craig Dunn

In previous posts, we’ve talked about building Android apps for Microsoft Surface Duo using Kotlin & Java, C# with Xamarin, React Native, Unity, and Flutter. Microsoft is also working hard to bring new capabilities to the web so that websites and embedded web experiences can also adapt to the Surface Duo and other dual-screen devices...

Microsoft Surface Duo dev resources recap

June 4, 2020 Jun 4, 2020 06/4/20

Guy Merin

Hello Surface Duo developers! Given the recent events that are unfolding across the globe, we have decided to give this week’s blog a lower profile so you can focus on the well being of your local communities and families. Please be safe and we look forward to sharing lots of exciting announcements in the coming weeks. In the meantime...

Resource configuration for Microsoft Surface Duo

May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020 05/28/20