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Fluent UI for Microsoft Surface Duo

November 19, 2020 Nov 19, 2020 11/19/20
Aneesha Kommineni
Hello Kotlin and Java developers, I’m pleased to present our first release of Fluent UI Android controls for Surface Duo. Fluent UI is a user experience framework to help you build attractive apps that are consistent across Android and other platforms. Read more about Fluent UI. To help developers build dual-screen apps we ...

Dual-screen list-detail with navigation

November 5, 2020 Nov 5, 2020 11/5/20
Cesar Valiente
Hello Kotlin and Java developers! When you’re enhancing your existing Android apps for the Microsoft Surface Duo, you may want to keep your existing single-screen behavior. In today’s blog, I’ll share an example list-detail that supports the traditional back-button behavior in a single screen, but shows the list and detail ...

droidcon webinar recap

September 22, 2020 Sep 22, 2020 09/22/20
Cesar Valiente
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: Hakon Strande – Introduction to Surface Duo...

Jetpack Compose on Microsoft Surface Duo

September 1, 2020 Sep 1, 2020 09/1/20
Joy Liu
Hello, Android dual-screen developers! Today we are going to talk about how to use the new UI framework, Jetpack Compose to build a dual-screen app on the Surface Duo. Jetpack Compose is a new Declarative UI Framework in Android. Instead of using the traditional XML layouts, the developer calls the Composable functions to get the UI ...

Noteworthy new Surface Duo app sample

August 27, 2020 Aug 27, 2020 08/27/20
Kristen Halper
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 dev resources recap

June 4, 2020 Jun 4, 2020 06/4/20
Guy Merin
Hello Surface Duo developers! Given the recent events that are unfolding across the globe, we have decided to give this week’s blog a lower profile so you can focus on the well being of your local communities and families. Please be safe and we look forward to sharing lots of exciting announcements in the coming weeks. In the meantime...

Resource configuration for Microsoft Surface Duo

May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020 05/28/20
Cesar Valiente
Hello Android dual-screen developers! As we mentioned in a previous blog post, enhancing your app for dual-screen devices is easily done by following this three step process: Figure 1. Three steps to get your app ready for dual-screen devices Today we are going to provide some additional useful tips for embracing new features (Step 3...