Surface Duo

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...

isSeparating: the field that unites all foldables

April 14, 2022 Apr 14, 2022 04/14/22

Cesar Valiente

Hello Android developers, Today we are going to talk about a very useful field that is part of Jetpack Window Manager library. This field is called isSeparating, and will help you to understand when there is content separated by a FoldingFeature on a foldable device. The value of isSeparating will be false if there is no ...

Write foldable tests quickly with Test Kit

March 24, 2022 Mar 24, 2022 03/24/22

Kristen Halper

Hello Android developers! This week, we’re super excited to announce that we’ve released the first version of our foldable Test Kit. The Test Kit currently includes two testing utility libraries, one for layouts built with views and another for layouts built with Jetpack Compose, and we’re looking forward to adding more ...

Microsoft Surface Duo Android Emulator update

March 17, 2022 Mar 17, 2022 03/17/22

Andrei Paval

Hello Android developers, We’re excited to announce the release of an updated Surface Duo Emulator that is based on Android 11 and runs as an Android Virtual Device (AVD), supporting different screen sizes for both Surface Duo and Surface Duo 2 devices. Download now You can download the Surface Duo Emulator package from the ...

Microsoft Edge dual-screen web APIs

March 10, 2022 Mar 10, 2022 03/10/22

Craig Dunn

Hello dual-screen web developers! Microsoft Edge version 97 included the dual-screen web APIs that have been in preview since last year. Now Microsoft Surface Duo users with the latest Edge will get an enhanced web experience automatically when sites have implemented the CSS or JavaScript dual-screen APIs. Visit the dual-screen web ...

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 ...

Dual-screen app design walkthrough

February 10, 2022 Feb 10, 2022 02/10/22

Mehul Shah

Hello designers, This week we are excited to share with you our journey that inspires, educates, and showcases real world usage of various design patterns and provides designers a sense of exploring foldables with working examples of how to make use of the dual-screen/folding form factors in different ways when an application is ...

Dual-screen gaming on Microsoft Surface Duo

February 3, 2022 Feb 3, 2022 02/3/22

Nguyen Thanh Tung

Today's post was contributed by Gameloft, publishers of Asphalt 9: Legends, Modern Combat 5, and Dungeon Hunter 5. Hello Android developers! It was great that we had a chance to work with Surface Duo and adapt three of our most popular games: Asphalt 9: Legends, Modern Combat 5 and Dungeon Hunter 5, for this awesome device. Surface...

Jetpack Compose WindowState preview

January 20, 2022 Jan 20, 2022 01/20/22

Kristen Halper

Hello Jetpack Compose developers! This week, we’d like to announce the release of WindowState, a new utility library that’s part of our Compose SDK. Our goal was to provide easy access to all the window information provided by the Jetpack Window Manager library and to simplify the logic required to enhance your apps for large ...

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