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2021 dual-screen year in review

December 30, 2021 Dec 30, 2021 12/30/21
Hakon Strande
Hello Android developers! 2021 was a big year for dual-screen devices with the release of Microsoft Surface Duo 2. It has also been a busy year for developers with Jetpack Window Manager – Google’s common API for foldable device info – graduating from alpha to beta and then release candidate, the SlidingPaneLayout control was ...

Happy holidays

December 23, 2021 Dec 23, 2021 12/23/21
Guy Merin
Hello Android developers! As the weather cools down (or heats up, depending on your hemisphere), it’s time to take a break and ease into the new year. If you’re using down time to learn a new skill or get some personal projects underway, we have plenty of content to keep you entertained! Here’s some suggestions for ...

Dual-screen reference app

December 16, 2021 Dec 16, 2021 12/16/21
Bianca Miron
Hello Android developers! We’re excited to announce the release of our latest sample application, Dual Screen Experience Example, both as open-source code on GitHub and also available for download from Google Play. What is the sample about? The sample application provides developers and designers with the possibility to...

Get started with Jetpack Compose

November 18, 2021 Nov 18, 2021 11/18/21
Kristen Halper
Hello (future) Jetpack Compose developers! This week, we want to talk about how to get started on building applications with Jetpack Compose. A few of us on the Surface Duo Developer Experience team recently began learning Compose, so we’d like to share some advice and resources with you. To read more about the work we’ve...

Develop for Surface Duo 2

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

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

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