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 Here’s...
Android Developers, it’s Microsoft Surface Duo release day! Today marks a very special day for us, it’s Surface Duo release day, and the device will be in customers hands starting today. We’re very excited to see all the apps you will build that utilize dual-screens and this new form factor, and our Surface Duo Developer Experience team (DevX...
Hello Surface Duo developers! Given the recent events that are unfolding across the globe, we have decided to give this week’s blog a lower profile so you can focus on the well being of your local communities and families. Please be safe and we look forward to sharing lots of exciting announcements in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we hav...
Hello Android dual-screen developers! In the March 26th blog post, we introduced the Dual Screen Layout. Figure 1: Single-screen and dual-screen layouts using SurfaceDuoLayout When using the SurfaceDuoLayout, you can implement dual-screen behavior by either using layouts or by listening for screen change events and manipulating fragmen...
Hello Surface Duo developers! In our Feb 6th blog post, we shared 3 steps to bring your app to Microsoft Surface Duo, followed by a post on step 1 and how to test your app and step 2 highlighting incremental changes to make to your app Figure 1: Steps to bring your app to Microsoft Surface Duo 1: Steps to bring your app to Microsoft Surface...
This blogpost details Step 2 in the journey to bring your app to Surface Duo. These will cover App resizing, Drag and drop support, how to launch intents in the adjacent screen, Multi instance/Activities support, Widgets and Pen support
Hello Dual Screen developers! We are proud to be part of this growing community and excited to share with you the latest on the #SurfaceDuo SDK front in these devblogs. Don’t forget to read our previous editions for additional Dev goodies, and let us know (feedback links below) on what else you would like us to cover. For today’s blog on 0...
The Surface Duo SDK Preview for developers is available Hello awesome Android developers! This post is the first in a series designed to keep us connected with you as you build new app experiences using the Surface Duo Preview SDK for developers. Figure 1: Microsoft Surface Duo Surface Duo Developer Experience Team We a...
