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Jetpack Compose Navigation Rail

November 4, 2021 Nov 4, 2021 11/4/21
Kristen Halper
Hello Jetpack Compose developers! This week, we released a new sample that demonstrates how to use the NavigationRail component with large screen and foldable devices. These guidelines were also introduced recently in the Microsoft Surface Duo Design Kit 2.1. Create a NavigationRail with Compose We first blogged about NavigationRail in ...

Android Dev Summit recap

October 28, 2021 Oct 28, 2021 10/28/21
Guy Merin
Hello Android developers! This week’s blog includes lots of news from Google's Android Dev Summit – especially for dual-screen, foldable, and large screen app developers. The Surface Duo Developer Experience team is here to help developers plan and adapt their Android apps for new form factors like Microsoft Surface Duo 2. Here ...

Happy Hacktober

October 14, 2021 Oct 14, 2021 10/14/21
Cesar Valiente
Hello open source developers! For the past few years October has become synonymous with open source, so this year we’ve decided to opt-in our samples repositories to Hacktoberfest to encourage the community to join us in building dual-screen enhanced Android projects. (image) Figure 1: Build or contribute to apps for ...

Adapting to Android multi-window and foldable devices

September 30, 2021 Sep 30, 2021 09/30/21
Craig Dunn
Hello Android developers! Although multi-window support was first introduced in Android 7 (API 24), many developers are only recently starting to adapt their code to this feature as dual-screen, foldable, and large-screen devices are becoming more common. If you’re considering adapting your apps for the latest larger-screen ...

Develop for Surface Duo 2

September 23, 2021 Sep 23, 2021 09/23/21
Guy Merin
Hello Android developers! At yesterday’s Microsoft event we introduced the new Microsoft Surface Duo 2. Today I’d like to invite developers to start building or enhancing apps for dual-screen devices like the Surface Duo, Surface Duo 2, and other foldables. Surface Duo 2 The new Surface Duo 2 includes 5G support, ...

Android emulator multi-touch support

September 16, 2021 Sep 16, 2021 09/16/21
Gabriel Grigoras
Hello Android developers! We’re excited to announce that version 30.9.0 of the Android emulator now supports multiple touch points to let you test gestures and interactions that require more than one finger! Multi-touch support requires the emulator be running on a touch screen device, which includes most modern Windows PCs, ...

Unity and Jetpack Window Manager

September 9, 2021 Sep 9, 2021 09/9/21
Craig Dunn
Hello game developers! We’ve covered Jetpack Window Manager in the docs, and previously blogged about how to integrate the DisplayMask API into a Unity sample. In this post I’ll describe how to extend a Unity project to integrate native Android code and configuration to include the Jetpack Window Manager package and provide dual...

Travel Planner dual-screen sample app

September 2, 2021 Sep 2, 2021 09/2/21
Raymond Liu
Hello Android developers! Over the summer, Hersh and I worked on a sample app that demonstrates a variety of dual-screen app possibilities. We used APIs like Jetpack Window Manager to create features that work across different foldable devices, including Microsoft Surface Duo. In this post, I’ve highlighted some of our favorite ...

Android Emulator native host pen support

August 26, 2021 Aug 26, 2021 08/26/21
Andrei Paval
Hello Android developers! We’re excited to announce that version 30.8.3 of the Android Emulator now includes active pen support to let you test pen-specific features like pressure sensitivity, orientation, eraser tip, and input button! Pen support requires the emulator be running on a device with a specific pen digitizer ...

Dual-screen developer tools recap

August 5, 2021 Aug 5, 2021 08/5/21
Craig Dunn
Hello dual-screen developers, Each week we cover a different aspect of dual-screen development, but with so much happening it’s difficult to cover ALL of the platforms that support the Microsoft Surface Duo. This post is a quick run-down of all the different tools and platforms that developers can use to create dual-screen ...