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Dual-screen library update with Jetpack Window Manager

Andrei CirjaDecember 10, 2020Dec 10, 202012/10/20

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 MerinDecember 3, 2020Dec 3, 202012/3/20

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 ...

Fluent UI for Microsoft Surface Duo

Aneesha KommineniNovember 19, 2020Nov 19, 202011/19/20

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

Cesar ValienteNovember 5, 2020Nov 5, 202011/5/20

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 ...

Working with the camera on Microsoft Surface Duo

Meir Ben ItayOctober 29, 2020Oct 29, 202010/29/20

Hi Android developers! While the Surface Duo runs Android apps just like any other Android device, there are some differences in the hardware: In this post, we will review some dual-screen-specific camera behaviors and present some different options for enhancing camera capture in your apps to work even better on ...

Adding Microsoft Surface Duo support to the Flokk application

John WieseOctober 1, 2020Oct 1, 202010/1/20

Hello Flutter developers! During the final week of July, Microsoft held its annual hackathon. The event has had different names over the years, but the idea has remained the same; people from across the company come together to work on projects they are interested in. There are many different types of projects, some are simply a new ...

droidcon webinar recap

Cesar ValienteSeptember 22, 2020Sep 22, 202009/22/20

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 ...

Enhancing the Microsoft Surface Duo OneDrive experience

Lin WangSeptember 17, 2020Sep 17, 202009/17/20

Beginning last fall, I had the opportunity to work with the Surface Duo OneDrive feature team to redesign and polish the OneDrive app user experience to make it shine on Surface Duo. Many thanks and kudos to the team: Eli Waalkes, Daniela Dimitrova, Hansel Ip, Eirini Tsantouli, James Tong, Tola Adeola, and Lin Wang. Now that...

Enhancing Microsoft News for dual-screens

Thai NguyenSeptember 15, 2020Sep 15, 202009/15/20

Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to work with a great team of interns to bring Microsoft News to the Microsoft Surface Duo. The interns are: Throughout the internship, the interns learned about Microsoft’s engineering process as well as Surface Duo and Android development. Now that the ...

New React Native dual-screen navigation module

Greg TaylorSeptember 8, 2020Sep 8, 202009/8/20

Hello, React Native for Android developers! In a previous blog post, we discussed these existing React Native dual-screen features: DualScreenInfo to find information about the device, and TwoPaneView to get assistance with building dual-screen apps. Today’s post is about a new module we’ve released for JavaScript and ...

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