Surface Duo Blog

Introducing SurfaceDuoLayout Designer Preview for Android Studio Developers

April 9, 2020 Apr 9, 2020 04/9/20

Guy Merin

Hello Android dual-screen developers! In the March 26th blog post, we introduced the Dual Screen Layout. Figure 1: Single-screen and dual-screen layouts using SurfaceDuoLayout When using the SurfaceDuoLayout, you can implement dual-screen behavior by either using layouts or by listening for screen change events and manipulating ...

Orientation, Spanning and Insets

April 2, 2020 Apr 2, 2020 04/2/20

Meir Ben Itay

Hello Microsoft Surface Duo Developers! Until recently, mobile devices all had one thing in common: a single screen. While applications had to support multiple screen sizes, recently manufacturers got creative and introduced new foldable, dual-screen devices, Google added support for multi-windowing on Android. Now applications need to ...

Introducing dual-screen layouts for Android

March 26, 2020 Mar 26, 2020 03/26/20

Craig Dunn

Today we are releasing a preview of our first Android dual-screen layout control for Java and Kotlin developers. The new control and associated helpers will enable you to build dynamic and responsive apps that take advantage of the Microsoft Surface Duo and its two screens. We look forward to see what you create with it!

Bring your Xamarin apps to Surface Duo

March 19, 2020 Mar 19, 2020 03/19/20

Craig Dunn

Xamarin developers can build and test dual-screen apps for the Surface Duo, using the available emulator and SDKs available via NuGet. The hinge angle and display mask can be queried to adapt your screen layouts, and there is a TwoPaneView Xamarin.Forms control that helps build responsive app designs that work on all device types.

Bring your app to Surface Duo – Step 3

March 13, 2020 Mar 13, 2020 03/13/20

Guy Merin

Hello Surface Duo developers! In our Feb 6th blog post, we shared 3 steps to bring your app to Microsoft Surface Duo, followed by a post on step 1 and how to test your app and step 2 highlighting incremental changes to make to your app Figure 1: Steps to bring your app to Microsoft Surface Duo 1: Steps to bring your app to Microsoft ...

Bring your app to Surface Duo – Step 2

March 5, 2020 Mar 5, 2020 03/5/20

Guy Merin

This blogpost details Step 2 in the journey to bring your app to Surface Duo. These will cover App resizing, Drag and drop support, how to launch intents in the adjacent screen, Multi instance/Activities support, Widgets and Pen support

Bring your app to Surface Duo – Step 1

February 27, 2020 Feb 27, 2020 02/27/20

Hakon Strande

Hello Developers! We’re excited to post another devblog for developers considering dual screen devices as a new form factor that can enhance your application’s user experience. In this post, we’re focusing on application compatibility testing. As you know, the Microsoft Surface Duo has two screens and those screens are slightly ...

The Surface Duo SDK Preview is getting an update – Feb 20,2020

February 20, 2020 Feb 20, 2020 02/20/20

Guy Merin

Hello Dual Screen developers! We are proud to be part of this growing community and excited to share with you the latest on the #SurfaceDuo SDK front in these devblogs. Don’t forget to read our previous editions for additional Dev goodies, and let us know (feedback links below) on what else you would like us to cover. For today’s ...

Dual-Screen Developer Day Recap & SDK Updated!

February 13, 2020 Feb 13, 2020 02/13/20

Hakon Strande

Dual-Screen Developer Day recap and new samples for the Surface Duo SDK

Bring your app to Surface Duo

February 6, 2020 Feb 6, 2020 02/6/20

Guy Merin

Hello Surface Duo developers! This is our second post as part of a series focused on how to bring your app to Surface Duo using the Surface Duo Preview SDK for developers. Figure 1: Microsoft Surface Duo Dual-screen preview SDKs On January 22nd we announced the availability of Surface Duo Preview SDK for developers. Our goal ...