Surface Duo Blog

Surface Duo at Microsoft Build

May 20, 2020 May 20, 2020 05/20/20
Craig Dunn
Hello Microsoft Surface Duo developers! Today at Microsoft Build we shared a session covering how to take advantage of the dual screen device, Surface Duo using Xamarin and C#. You can watch the recording below: Video: Microsoft Build 2020 on YouTube Existing Android™ apps run without modification on the Surface Duo, but there...

Get Started with Flutter on Surface Duo

May 14, 2020 May 14, 2020 05/14/20
John Wiese
Hello Flutter developers! Today we are going to get you started with our Surface Duo SDK for Android so that you can adapt your existing applications for dual-screens and the hinge. The sample code demonstrates how Android developers can add the Surface Duo SDK to a project and then access the screen and hinge APIs. Our ultimate goal is ...

Surface Duo Emulator image update and open-source access to libraries

May 7, 2020 May 7, 2020 05/7/20
Guy Merin
Hello Surface Duo developers! Today we’re excited to release a refresh to our Microsoft Surface Duo Emulator Image. It has been a few weeks since our last Surface Duo Emulator image release and the team has been very busy addressing your feedback and has added several new features and optimizations that are detailed below. What’s ...

Pen Events on the Surface Duo

April 23, 2020 Apr 23, 2020 04/23/20
Meir Ben Itay
The Surface family of devices is known for great touch support, including pen input, and the Microsoft Surface Duo will be no different. By default, pen events are treated the same as a finger touch or mouse move, but you can detect and handle pen input differently, with a wider range of data such as pressure and orientation. Some pens also ha

Dual-screen games with Unity for Android

April 16, 2020 Apr 16, 2020 04/16/20
Craig Dunn
Hello Android game developers! Today we've published a Unity sample that incorporates our dual-screen SDK for Android so that you can adapt games for dual-screens and the hinge. The sample code demonstrates how to access the screen and hinge APIs that we provide Android developers, but from C# in Unity. The screenshot below shows a Unity ...

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. (image) 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 ...

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 ...

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.