Surface Duo Blog

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...

Microsoft Surface Duo One Dev Question video series

December 3, 2020 Dec 3, 2020 12/3/20

Guy Merin

Hello Android developers, Twice this year we’ve released a series of short videos answering questions about Microsoft Surface Duo development. In case you missed them, check out these videos and meet the Surface Duo Developer Experience team! Here are the most popular questions and answers we received: How do you get ...

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 ...

Fluent UI for Microsoft Surface Duo

November 19, 2020 Nov 19, 2020 11/19/20

Aneesha Kommineni

Hello Kotlin and Java developers, I’m pleased to present our first release of Fluent UI Android controls for Surface Duo. Fluent UI is a user experience framework to help you build attractive apps that are consistent across Android and other platforms. Read more about Fluent UI. To help developers build dual-screen apps we ...

Bringing Sketch 360 to Microsoft Surface Duo

November 12, 2020 Nov 12, 2020 11/12/20

Michael Scherotter

My inspiration Back in 2018, I came up with a way of using a Microsoft Surface to create 360 panoramic sketches and the Microsoft Garage encouraged me to release it as an app, Sketch 360. I created Sketch 360 because I wanted to develop a tool to help me create these immersive sketches more quickly. Because they are sketches from a ...

Dual-screen list-detail with navigation

November 5, 2020 Nov 5, 2020 11/5/20

Cesar Valiente

Hello Kotlin and Java developers! When you’re enhancing your existing Android apps for the Microsoft Surface Duo, you may want to keep your existing single-screen behavior. In today’s blog, I’ll share an example list-detail that supports the traditional back-button behavior in a single screen, but shows the list and detail ...

Working with the camera on Microsoft Surface Duo

October 29, 2020 Oct 29, 2020 10/29/20

Meir Ben Itay

Hi Android developers! While the Surface Duo runs Android apps just like any other Android device, there are some differences in the hardware: In this post, we will review some dual-screen-specific camera behaviors and present some different options for enhancing camera capture in your apps to work even better on ...

Updated Microsoft Surface Duo emulator with posture support

October 22, 2020 Oct 22, 2020 10/22/20

Emilian Mihalache

Hello Surface Duo developers! I’m excited to announce our latest Surface Duo Android emulator update, now with an easier way to simulate and visualize different device postures. You can download the latest version from the Microsoft Download Center (follow these instructions). The posture updates work with the Google ...

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 feature primitives and the 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 advantage of the new ...

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, ...