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Mar 3, 2021
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Announcing Flutter support for foldable devices

Andrei Diaconu
Andrei Diaconu

Flutter is one of the fastest growing frameworks today and certainly a powerful toolkit for building amazing apps, which is why we’re adding foldable support. Earlier today Microsoft announced a preview of foldable support for Flutter, at Google’s Flutter Engage. We love Flutter and foldable devices and want developers to have the best p...

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Feb 4, 2021
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Developer tip: launch on adjacent screen

Cesar Valiente
Cesar Valiente

Hello Android developers, Last year we blogged about bringing your existing apps to the Microsoft Surface Duo, which included a variety of suggestions from simple tweaks to a set of user-experience design patterns that you could use to enhance your applications’ UI. Today I’m going to re-visit one of those dual-screen enhancement tips th...

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Jan 28, 2021
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Gaming on dual-screens, from a Flutter perspective

John Wiese
John Wiese

So, you’ve built a game and it works great on all those single screen devices out there but what about these new foldables or the dual-screen Microsoft Surface Duo? Does your game work on it? It should, in single screen mode, but what happens when the user spans your game across two screens? Does that work? Should it work the same or is there a...

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Jan 21, 2021
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Building dual-screen web experiences with React

Aaron Powell
Aaron Powell

Hello web developers! Responsive design has always been the cornerstone of web development, rather than designing for a single use case, we focus on creating applications that can adjust to the needs of the platform they are running on. Microsoft Surface Duo is no exception to this and in past blog posts we’ve explored how we can use the CSS a...

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Jan 14, 2021
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Microsoft Surface Duo coming to new markets in 2021

Craig Dunn
Craig Dunn

Hello Android developers, Last month, Microsoft announced that early in 2021 the Surface Duo will be offered in Canada, United Kingdom, France, and Germany! We are excited to get Surface Duo into the hands of new customers in these new markets, and also to welcome developers in those countries to our community. To celebrate, we’re...

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Jan 7, 2021
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Figma Design Kit for Microsoft Surface Duo

Mehul Shah
Mehul Shah

Hello designers, We’re excited to announce the v0.1 of our Design Kit for Microsoft Surface Duo. The kit details dual-screen capabilities and shows common use cases to help inspire your mobile app design. You can easily grab design elements and modify them as needed, giving you more time to create the best experience for your users. Thi...

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Dec 29, 2020
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Microsoft Surface Duo developer year in review

Hakon Strande
Hakon Strande

Hello dual-screen developers, It was over a year ago – 2nd October 2019 – that Panos introduced the Surface Duo to the world. In the months since, we have shared a number of milestones with you leading up to the product launch (and beyond): We’re incredibly excited to see the Surface Duo released, and thankful for the support we’v...

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Dec 22, 2020
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Hacky Holidays!

Guy Merin
Guy Merin

Hello developers, For many people around the world, this time of year is for celebration of holidays and enjoying long-standing traditions. Some folks use the time for hacking - to learn new skills or catch up on the latest technologies, and since 2020 marked the release of the Microsoft Surface Duo, we’d like to take this opportunity to...

Surface DuoDual Screen Development
Nov 24, 2020
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Build a dual-screen custom layout with Jetpack Window Manager

Craig Dunn
Craig Dunn

Hello Android developers, The Microsoft Surface Duo SDK offers a variety of custom controls to help enhance your dual-screen apps, from layouts, tabs, and navigation controls for Kotlin and Java developers to the TwoPaneView for Xamarin, React Native, and Uno Platform developers. However, you might have an application-specific requiremen...

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Nov 12, 2020
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Bringing Sketch 360 to Microsoft Surface Duo

Michael Scherotter
Michael Scherotter

My inspiration Back in 2018, I came up with a way of using a Microsoft Surface to create 360 panoramic sketches and the Microsoft Garage encouraged me to release it as an app, Sketch 360. I created Sketch 360 because I wanted to develop a tool to help me create these immersive sketches more quickly. Because they are sketches from a single po...

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