Surface Duo Blog

Developing for Android on Windows

June 24, 2021 Jun 24, 2021 06/24/21
Guy Merin
Hello Android developers! Today Microsoft announced the next version of Windows and a new Windows Store, and we’re excited to see how people take advantage of its new features. One thing that hasn’t changed is that Windows is still the best platform to design, build, test, and deploy Android apps. All tools welcome No ...

Window Manager preview for Xamarin

June 17, 2021 Jun 17, 2021 06/17/21
Craig Dunn
Hello Xamarin developers! We’ve discussed Window Manager in previous blog posts – it’s an AndroidX library that brings dual-screen and foldable support to Android, across a variety of devices including Microsoft Surface Duo. Window Manager is now available to test with Xamarin.Android apps via a prerelease NuGet Xamarin....

Surface Duo Design Kit update

June 10, 2021 Jun 10, 2021 06/10/21
Mehul Shah
Hello designers, Today we are excited to share you with an update to the Design Kit for the Microsoft Surface Duo that’s available on Figma for download. The latest update to our Design Kit version 0.4 includes: In this blog post we want to highlight details of the guidelines, principles, and...

A new angle on Flutter

June 3, 2021 Jun 3, 2021 06/3/21
Andrei Diaconu
Hello Flutter developers! Today we are taking a closer look at the hinge on Microsoft Surface Duo and other foldable devices. The hinge holds the two parts of the device together, but it also has a sensor inside which tells us about the angle between the two screens. (image) Figure 1: Surface Duo Hinge in action Hinge ...

Ask the Experts at Microsoft Build

May 28, 2021 May 28, 2021 05/28/21
Hakon Strande
Hello developers! Thank you to everyone who joined us at Microsoft Build this week. There was a lot of amazing announcements across the company, but for the Surface Duo Developer Experience team the highlight was sharing the latest info on building and enhancing your apps for dual-screens, and “meeting” everyone who attended the...

Surface Duo at Microsoft Build

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21
Guy Merin
Hello developers! Microsoft Build starts today with a keynote by Satya Nadella. The session catalog includes several Microsoft Surface sessions for developers looking to enhance their mobile applications for Surface Duo. Join the Surface Duo Developer Experience team in a mix of live and on-demand sessions that will help you build amazing ...

Foldables at Google I/O

May 20, 2021 May 20, 2021 05/20/21
Cesar Valiente
Hello Android developers! You've probably seen some of the awesome announcements made this week at Google I/O, a virtual event that brought the Google developer community together. This post covers some of our favorites, from sessions like What’s new in foldables, tablets, and large screens, and Prepare your app for large screens...

Foldable SlidingPaneLayout

May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 05/13/21
Cesar Valiente
Hello Android developers! Last week Google announced an update to the SlidingPaneLayout component preview, which is being enhanced for dual-screen and foldable devices. UPDATE: on September 1st, 2021 Google released beta01. The API has not changed from the instructions in this post, the updated implementation line is: As ...

Creating beautiful dual-screen Xamarin.Forms apps

May 6, 2021 May 6, 2021 05/6/21
Craig Dunn
Hello .NET developers! The blog has previously featured tips for bringing Xamarin apps to Surface Duo and Microsoft Learn training to help enhance Xamarin apps. In this post we’ll discuss changes to animated layouts in a Xamarin.Forms app to adapt them for Microsoft Surface Duo. Adapt a design for Xamarin The sample project ...