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Happy Holidays 2022

December 22, 2022 Dec 22, 2022 12/22/22
Craig Dunn
Hello Android developers, Inspired by the growth of AI and its role in products like GitHub’s Copilot this year, we asked ChatGPT to “propose some applications for Surface Duo owners to use over the holidays”… One possible application for Surface Duo owners to use over the holidays could be to use the dual screens ...

Experimenting with postures in Flutter

August 25, 2022 Aug 25, 2022 08/25/22
Andrei Diaconu
The things I'm doing in this article are highly experimental. By the end of it hopefully you will agree with these two statements: To achieve the desired behavior, I end up using several hacky techniques which I would think twice before shipping to production. This article is not a tutorial. It is a story of the fun I had with ...

Making a gamepad for my Flutter game

August 4, 2022 Aug 4, 2022 08/4/22
Andrei Diaconu
Did you know that building games in Flutter is just as easy as building apps? There is even a game engine built on top of it called Flame. Today we are first going to explore building a simple game with Flame and then enhance the game for dual-screen and foldable devices. This space themed game will use an on-screen gamepad controller as ...

Responsive layouts in Flutter with TwoPane

June 16, 2022 Jun 16, 2022 06/16/22
Andrei Diaconu
Welcome to another Flutter update. This time we will dive into TwoPane, tell you how to get it from pub.dev and focus on the types of layouts you can build with it. Before we get to examples, we will first see what parameters it exposes. This widget has cousins in other frameworks, making its context interesting to explore. Let us first ...

Flutter foldable support is now stable

May 19, 2022 May 19, 2022 05/19/22
Andrei Diaconu
Hello! Flutter 3 was announced last week, and we have good news to share with you. The foldable support that we contributed to Flutter is now released in the latest stable branch. Let us dive into what this means for you. We will first go over the new API that you can use and then review what else Flutter now does for you out of the box...

Google I/O 2022 recap

May 13, 2022 May 13, 2022 05/13/22
Guy Merin
Hello Android developers, Another Google I/O has flown by, and we were excited to see sessions on foldable user experience design as well as developer-focused talks for updating existing apps to be more responsive and using Jetpack Compose. Here are our favorite sessions and announcements from the past few days: Flutter 3 announced...

Foldable Flutter follow-up

February 24, 2022 Feb 24, 2022 02/24/22
Andrei Diaconu
How else to start this article other than saying Hello Flutter developers! This is an update on the foldable support we are contributing to Flutter, along with samples and other goodies for you to try out. Before we dive in, here is a video presenting most of what you are about to read. This is from the Flutter Vikings conference which ...

Happy Two Year

January 6, 2022 Jan 6, 2022 01/6/22
Craig Dunn
Hello developers! Welcome to 2022 – a great year to be developing for two screens! To kick off the new year we’re going to do a quick recap of all the two screen enhanced components – across developer platforms – that can help you get started quickly with dual-screen and foldable support, while also providing great single-...

Microsoft Surface Duo at droidcon

December 9, 2021 Dec 9, 2021 12/9/21
Cesar Valiente
Hello Android developers! The Surface Duo Developer Experience team presented at our first in-person events this year, at droidcon in Berlin and London. droidcon Berlin (image) We presented our brand-new Surface Duo 2 in Berlin. People loved the device and the possibilities that it offers. We delivered a talk ...

Happy Hacktober

October 14, 2021 Oct 14, 2021 10/14/21
Cesar Valiente
Hello open source developers! For the past few years October has become synonymous with open source, so this year we’ve decided to opt-in our samples repositories to Hacktoberfest to encourage the community to join us in building dual-screen enhanced Android projects. (image) Figure 1: Build or contribute to apps for ...