Tag: Dual Screen Development from Surface Duo Blog

Announcing Flutter support for foldable devices

Andrei Diaconu March 3, 2021 Mar 3, 2021 03/3/21

Flutter is one of the fastest growing frameworks today and certainly a powerful toolkit for building amazing apps, which is why we’re adding foldable support. Earlier today Microsoft announced a preview of foldable support for Flutter, at Google’s Flutter Engage. We love Flutter and foldable devices and want developers to have ...

Xamarin.Forms 5.0 on Microsoft Surface Duo

Shane Neuville February 25, 2021 Feb 25, 2021 02/25/21

Hello Xamarin developers, Today Craig and I joined The Launch Space, a live stream from Microsoft Learn, to talk about developing dual-screen apps for Surface Duo using Xamarin. This topic has been covered in the blog before, but there are some new features to talk about with the release of Xamarin.Forms 5.0. You can watch the ...

Microsoft Surface Duo emulator February refresh

Joy Liu February 18, 2021 Feb 18, 2021 02/18/21

Hello Android developers, Today we are releasing the latest update to the Surface Duo emulator. Since last December, we started to introduce some app samples into the emulator so you can play with them directly and get a better idea about how to build an application or enhance your application on the Surface Duo device. Here...

Making Microsoft Outlook shine on Microsoft Surface Duo

Trung Ha February 11, 2021 Feb 11, 2021 02/11/21

Hello Android developers, In this post, you’ll learn how the Outlook team adapted our Android app to create a user-friendly experience on the dual-screen Surface Duo. Outlook for Surface Duo has the same familiar experience that you find on both phone and tablet and this is no coincidence as Outlook has been designed with ...

Developer tip: launch on adjacent screen

Cesar Valiente February 4, 2021 Feb 4, 2021 02/4/21

Hello Android developers, Last year we blogged about bringing your existing apps to the Microsoft Surface Duo, which included a variety of suggestions from simple tweaks to a set of user-experience design patterns that you could use to enhance your applications’ UI. Today I’m going to re-visit one of those dual-screen ...

Figma Design Kit for Microsoft Surface Duo

Mehul Shah January 7, 2021 Jan 7, 2021 01/7/21

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 Merin December 22, 2020 Dec 22, 2020 12/22/20

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 Dunn December 17, 2020 Dec 17, 2020 12/17/20

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 Cirja December 10, 2020 Dec 10, 2020 12/10/20

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

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 ...

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