Surface Duo Blog

Join us live on Twitch (and YouTube)

April 29, 2021 Apr 29, 2021 04/29/21

Craig Dunn

Hello dual-screen and foldable device developers, Those of you following us on Twitter will have noticed in recent weeks that we’ve been inviting you to join a livestream each Friday (11am Pacific; 2pm Eastern; 8pm in Europe). We just recently celebrated 12 episodes over the past three months! If you haven’t joined us yet...

Ensuring code quality with CI/CD

April 22, 2021 Apr 22, 2021 04/22/21

Cesar Valiente

Hello Android developers, One of the best ways for us to help you enhance your apps is with samples, and it’s important that our samples are high quality and work as intended. Building dual-screen libraries and samples As you may already know, specifically for Android development (through its SDK and using Kotlin/Java...

Build and deploy dual-screen progressive web apps

April 15, 2021 Apr 15, 2021 04/15/21

Justin Willis

Hello web developers, We've posted previously about using dual-screen media queries and JavaScript to adapt web apps for Microsoft Surface Duo. Today’s post is about how you can use those dual-screen capabilities in your progressive web app (PWA) and deploy to both the Google Play Store AND the Microsoft Store using PWABuilder! We...

Microsoft Surface Duo Design Kit documentation

April 8, 2021 Apr 8, 2021 04/8/21

Mehul Shah

Hello designers! This week we are happy to share a number of updates to the Microsoft Surface Duo Design Kit that was announced in January. Design Kit updates There have been several additions and updates since the last version on the Figma Design Kit: One major update is the addition of interactive ...

Adapting your Angular web app for dual-screen devices

April 1, 2021 Apr 1, 2021 04/1/21

Yohan Lasorsa

Hello web developers! Foldable and dual-screen devices are becoming increasingly more common over time, but you may wonder if investing development time to support these devices might be worth it, especially when creating fully responsive web apps is already a challenge. Using the new CSS and JavaScript primitives is a fun way to ...

Jetpack Compose foldable and dual-screen development

March 25, 2021 Mar 25, 2021 03/25/21

Joy Liu

Hi Android developers, We talked about using Jetpack Compose, the new Android UI toolkit for Microsoft Surface Duo development in a previous blog post. Now, Jetpack Compose is in beta. Combined with the use of Jetpack Window Manager, Jetpack Compose is more flexible for developing apps for dual-screen devices and even easier to ...

New Android pen and ink control preview

March 18, 2021 Mar 18, 2021 03/18/21

Craig Dunn

Hello Android developers, In a previous post, we shared code to handle pen events including pressure, orientation, and button presses on the pen. Today’s post introduces a preview of a new pen and inking control that you can easily add to your Android apps to get pen (and touch) support without a lot of custom code. (image...

Introducing Jetpack Window Manager for foldable and dual-screen devices Codelab

March 11, 2021 Mar 11, 2021 03/11/21

Cesar Valiente

Hello Android developers, As we have mentioned in previous blog posts, enhancing apps to take advantage of the capabilities that new form factor devices such as Microsoft Surface Duo and other foldable devices provide, can easily be done by following a step-by-step approach. With that in mind, during the last months we have ...

Announcing Flutter support for foldable devices

March 3, 2021 Mar 3, 2021 03/3/21

Andrei Diaconu

Flutter is one of the fastest growing frameworks today and certainly a powerful toolkit for building amazing apps, which is why we’re adding foldable support. Earlier today Microsoft announced a preview of foldable support for Flutter, at Google’s Flutter Engage. We love Flutter and foldable devices and want developers to have ...

Xamarin.Forms 5.0 on Microsoft Surface Duo

February 25, 2021 Feb 25, 2021 02/25/21

Shane Neuville

Hello Xamarin developers, Today Craig and I joined The Launch Space, a live stream from Microsoft Learn, to talk about developing dual-screen apps for Surface Duo using Xamarin. This topic has been covered in the blog before, but there are some new features to talk about with the release of Xamarin.Forms 5.0. You can watch the ...