Tag: Dual Screen Development from Surface Duo Blog

Foldables at Google I/O

Cesar Valiente May 20, 2021 May 20, 2021 05/20/21

Hello Android developers! You've probably seen some of the awesome announcements made this week at Google I/O, a virtual event that brought the Google developer community together. This post covers some of our favorites, from sessions like What’s new in foldables, tablets, and large screens, and Prepare your app for large screens...

Foldable SlidingPaneLayout

Cesar Valiente May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 05/13/21

Hello Android developers! Last week Google announced an update to the SlidingPaneLayout component preview, which is being enhanced for dual-screen and foldable devices. As an intro note, the previous version of this component (1.2.0-alpha01) was the first version to include foldable support. In this new version (1.2.0-...

Join us live on Twitch (and YouTube)

Craig Dunn April 29, 2021 Apr 29, 2021 04/29/21

Hello dual-screen and foldable device developers, Those of you following us on Twitter will have noticed in recent weeks that we’ve been inviting you to join a livestream each Friday (11am Pacific; 2pm Eastern; 8pm in Europe). We just recently celebrated 12 episodes over the past three months! If you haven’t joined us yet...

Ensuring code quality with CI/CD

Cesar Valiente April 22, 2021 Apr 22, 2021 04/22/21

Hello Android developers, One of the best ways for us to help you enhance your apps is with samples, and it’s important that our samples are high quality and work as intended. Building dual-screen libraries and samples As you may already know, specifically for Android development (through its SDK and using Kotlin/Java...

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...

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