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Dual-screen developer tools recap

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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