Dual Screen Development

Develop for Surface Duo 2

Guy Merin September 23, 2021 Sep 23, 2021 09/23/21

Hello Android developers! At yesterday’s Microsoft event we introduced the new Microsoft Surface Duo 2. Today I’d like to invite developers to start building or enhancing apps for dual-screen devices like the Surface Duo, Surface Duo 2, and other foldables. Surface Duo 2 The new Surface Duo 2 includes 5G support, ...

Android emulator multi-touch support

Gabriel Grigoras September 16, 2021 Sep 16, 2021 09/16/21

Hello Android developers! We’re excited to announce that version 30.9.0 of the Android emulator now supports multiple touch points to let you test gestures and interactions that require more than one finger! Multi-touch support requires the emulator be running on a touch screen device, which includes most modern Windows PCs, ...

Unity and Jetpack Window Manager

Craig Dunn September 9, 2021 Sep 9, 2021 09/9/21

Hello game developers! We’ve covered Jetpack Window Manager in the docs, and previously blogged about how to integrate the DisplayMask API into a Unity sample. In this post I’ll describe how to extend a Unity project to integrate native Android code and configuration to include the Jetpack Window Manager package and provide dual...

Dual-screen Navigation Rail

Cesar Valiente August 19, 2021 Aug 19, 2021 08/19/21

Hello Android developers! Google recently published a new landing page for building responsive layouts for larger screens (including dual-screen and foldable devices). The new NavigationRail widget includes features and guidance as an efficient way to navigate app features on larger screens. About NavigationRail NavigationRail is ...

Dual-screen developer tools recap

Craig Dunn August 5, 2021 Aug 5, 2021 08/5/21

Hello dual-screen developers, Each week we cover a different aspect of dual-screen development, but with so much happening it’s difficult to cover ALL of the platforms that support the Microsoft Surface Duo. This post is a quick run-down of all the different tools and platforms that developers can use to create dual-screen ...

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. UPDATE: on September 1st, 2021 Google released beta01. The API has not changed from the instructions in this post, the updated implementation line is: ...

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 ...

Surface Duo Blog

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