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New Android pen and ink control preview

Craig Dunn March 18, 2021 Mar 18, 2021 03/18/21

Hello Android developers, In a previous post, we shared code to handle pen events including pressure, orientation, and button presses on the pen. Today’s post introduces a preview of a new pen and inking control that you can easily add to your Android apps to get pen (and touch) support without a lot of custom code. ...

Xamarin.Forms 5.0 on Microsoft Surface Duo

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

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 ...

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 ...

Fluent UI for Microsoft Surface Duo

Aneesha Kommineni November 19, 2020 Nov 19, 2020 11/19/20

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 Valiente November 5, 2020 Nov 5, 2020 11/5/20

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 Itay October 29, 2020 Oct 29, 2020 10/29/20

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 Wiese October 1, 2020 Oct 1, 2020 10/1/20

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 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 ...

Enhancing the Microsoft Surface Duo OneDrive experience

Lin Wang September 17, 2020 Sep 17, 2020 09/17/20

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...

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