Surface Duo Blog

Gaming on dual-screens, from a Flutter perspective

January 28, 2021 Jan 28, 2021 01/28/21
John Wiese
So, you’ve built a game and it works great on all those single screen devices out there but what about these new foldables or the dual-screen Microsoft Surface Duo? Does your game work on it? It should, in single screen mode, but what happens when the user spans your game across two screens? Does that work? Should it work the same or is ...

Building dual-screen web experiences with React

January 21, 2021 Jan 21, 2021 01/21/21
Aaron Powell
Hello web developers! Responsive design has always been the cornerstone of web development, rather than designing for a single use case, we focus on creating applications that can adjust to the needs of the platform they are running on. Microsoft Surface Duo is no exception to this and in past blog posts we’ve explored how we can use ...

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, ...

Figma Design Kit for Microsoft Surface Duo

January 7, 2021 Jan 7, 2021 01/7/21
Mehul Shah
Hello designers, We’re excited to announce the v0.1 of our Design Kit for Microsoft Surface Duo. The kit details dual-screen capabilities and shows common use cases to help inspire your mobile app design. You can easily grab design elements and modify them as needed, giving you more time to create the best experience for your users...

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): January 31st, 2020 First preview of the Surface Duo SDK February 13th, 2020 ...

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 ...

Build dual-screen Cordova apps for Microsoft Surface Duo

December 17, 2020 Dec 17, 2020 12/17/20
Craig Dunn
Hello hybrid app developers, This week I’m happy to share an example plugin for use with Cordova that will help to enhance your hybrid apps for dual-screens. The plugin includes DisplayMask.jar to detect the Surface Duo and return information about the masked hinge area when the app is spanned, and exposes it in JavaScript for ...

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...

Build a dual-screen custom layout with Jetpack Window Manager

November 24, 2020 Nov 24, 2020 11/24/20
Craig Dunn
Hello Android developers, The Microsoft Surface Duo SDK offers a variety of custom controls to help enhance your dual-screen apps, from layouts, tabs, and navigation controls for Kotlin and Java developers to the TwoPaneView for Xamarin, React Native, and Uno Platform developers. However, you might have an application-specific ...