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Surface Duo Design Kit 2.2 update

September 8, 2022 Sep 8, 2022 09/8/22
Yuran Liu
Hello app designers! Our Surface Duo Design Kit is now updated to version 2.2. If you haven’t heard of this kit before, Surface Duo Design Kit is the go-to place where you can find all our UX design suggestions and UI components for both Surface Duo and Surface Duo 2. It includes many of the interface components which you can ...

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 ...

droidcon San Francisco recap

July 21, 2022 Jul 21, 2022 07/21/22
Joy Liu
Hello Android developers, Earlier this year the Surface Duo team attended our first in-person conference for the year at droidcon in San Francisco! It was great to meet Android developers from all over the world, demonstrate the features of Surface Duo, and chat about building apps for foldable and large screen devices. We’...

Notifications on the Glance Bar

July 7, 2022 Jul 7, 2022 07/7/22
Alin-Mihai Argeanu
Hello Android developers! This week we are talking about the Surface Duo 2 Glance Bar feature. If you are wondering what the Glance Bar feature is and how anyone can benefit from it, let’s dive into it together to learn more. What is the Glance Bar Feature? The Glance Bar feature displays notifications of BUCKET_PEOPLE ...

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 ...

Bazel build

June 9, 2022 Jun 9, 2022 06/9/22
Cesar Valiente
Hello Android developers, Today we are going to go through an interesting topic, we will learn what it is and how to use Bazel, a build and test tool similar to Make, Maven, and Gradle. Many great companies and OSS projects are already using Bazel to build their software. Would you like to try it out for your Android app? In ...

Surface at Microsoft Build 2022

May 26, 2022 May 26, 2022 05/26/22
Parker Schroeder
Hello developers! Another blog, another Android event! While Google I/O seems like it happened in the distant past, Microsoft Build 2022 is here to help developers expand their skillset by exploring new and emerging technologies. Microsoft Build features the best of what technology has to offer, and you can gain insights from ...

Accessibility in a dual-screen application

May 5, 2022 May 5, 2022 05/5/22
Bianca Miron
Hello Android developers! Accessibility is an important step in the design and development flow of any Android application. Ensuring that everyone can use it in any situation will make the experience better, and the app will benefit from having an extended and diverse audience. When you design your app with accessibility in mind, ...

Join us at droidcon in 2022

April 21, 2022 Apr 21, 2022 04/21/22
Joy Liu
Hello Android developers! We’re excited to announce that conference events are offering in-person attendance this year, which means we’ll be able to meet face-to-face in addition to interacting via social media and Twitch! droidcon San Francisco The first event on our droidcon calendar is San Francisco on June 2nd and 3rd...

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