Tag: Dual Screen Development from Surface Duo Blog

Figma Design Kit for Microsoft Surface Duo

Mehul ShahJanuary 7, 2021Jan 7, 202101/7/21

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...

Hacky Holidays!

Guy MerinDecember 22, 2020Dec 22, 202012/22/20

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

Craig DunnDecember 17, 2020Dec 17, 202012/17/20

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

Andrei CirjaDecember 10, 2020Dec 10, 202012/10/20

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

Guy MerinDecember 3, 2020Dec 3, 202012/3/20

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 ...

Updated Microsoft Surface Duo emulator with posture support

Emilian MihalacheOctober 22, 2020Oct 22, 202010/22/20

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

Alexis Menard (Intel)October 15, 2020Oct 15, 202010/15/20

Hello there, fellow web developers! In an earlier blog post, we introduced the upcoming CSS @media feature primitives and the getWindowSegments() 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 ...

Build pixel-perfect Microsoft Surface Duo apps with Uno Platform

Agnès Zitte (Nventive)September 29, 2020Sep 29, 202009/29/20

Hello Microsoft Surface Duo developers! Today’s post was contributed by Nventive, the publishers of the Uno Platform. In previous blog posts, the Surface Duo team demonstrated how you can build dual-screen apps using Java and Kotlin, Xamarin and C#, Flutter, React Native, Web, and games with Unity. Today’s blog post shows how UWP and...

droidcon webinar recap

Cesar ValienteSeptember 22, 2020Sep 22, 202009/22/20

Hello Android developers! Last week, Hakon and I talked about building dual-screen experiences as part of the droidcon webinar series. We were joined by Andras Nemeth from Atlassian, to talk about enhancing the Jira mobile app for dual-screen devices. You can watch the recording online: Top questions and answers ...

Microsoft Surface Duo is released

Guy MerinSeptember 10, 2020Sep 10, 202009/10/20

Android Developers, it’s Microsoft Surface Duo release day! Today marks a very special day for us, it’s Surface Duo release day, and the device will be in customers hands starting today. We’re very excited to see all the apps you will build that utilize dual-screens and this new form factor, and our Surface Duo Developer Experience...

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