Tag: Dual Screen Development from Surface Duo Blog

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 ...

Updated Microsoft Surface Duo emulator with posture support

Emilian Mihalache October 22, 2020 Oct 22, 2020 10/22/20

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, 2020 Oct 15, 2020 10/15/20

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, 2020 Sep 29, 2020 09/29/20

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 Valiente September 22, 2020 Sep 22, 2020 09/22/20

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 Merin September 10, 2020 Sep 10, 2020 09/10/20

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...

Noteworthy new Surface Duo app sample

Kristen Halper August 27, 2020 Aug 27, 2020 08/27/20

Hello Microsoft Surface Duo developers, Parker and I are just about to finish up our internship on the Surface Duo Developer Experience team and we’ve had a great time! Throughout the past 12 weeks, we’ve worked on building sample apps, contributing to documentation, supporting internal and external customers, and just learning a lot ...

Microsoft Surface Duo developer training now on Microsoft Learn

Craig Dunn August 20, 2020 Aug 20, 2020 08/20/20

Hello Xamarin developers, This week we have added a new module to the Customize and add advanced features to Xamarin.Forms apps learning path on Microsoft Learn to help developers build apps for Surface Duo. Learn how to build apps for Surface Duo The new module is called Build dual-screen Xamarin.Forms apps by using ...

Microsoft Surface Duo is here

Guy Merin August 12, 2020 Aug 12, 2020 08/12/20

Hello Android developers, It’s here – the official product launch announcement If you’ve been waiting to get started with dual-screen app development, now is the time! Pre-order your Surface Duo today, download the emulator, and start developing with your favorite Android developer tools. All developers welcome! Your ...

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