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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 ...

Window Manager preview for Xamarin

June 17, 2021 Jun 17, 2021 06/17/21
Craig Dunn
Hello Xamarin developers! We’ve discussed Window Manager in previous blog posts – it’s an AndroidX library that brings dual-screen and foldable support to Android, across a variety of devices including Microsoft Surface Duo. Window Manager is now available to test with Xamarin.Android apps via a prerelease NuGet Xamarin....

Creating beautiful dual-screen Xamarin.Forms apps

May 6, 2021 May 6, 2021 05/6/21
Craig Dunn
Hello .NET developers! The blog has previously featured tips for bringing Xamarin apps to Surface Duo and Microsoft Learn training to help enhance Xamarin apps. In this post we’ll discuss changes to animated layouts in a Xamarin.Forms app to adapt them for Microsoft Surface Duo. Adapt a design for Xamarin The sample project ...

Bringing Sketch 360 to Microsoft Surface Duo

November 12, 2020 Nov 12, 2020 11/12/20
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 ...

Surface Duo at Microsoft Build

May 20, 2020 May 20, 2020 05/20/20
Craig Dunn
Hello Microsoft Surface Duo developers! Today at Microsoft Build we shared a session covering how to take advantage of the dual screen device, Surface Duo using Xamarin and C#. You can watch the recording below: Video: Microsoft Build 2020 on YouTube Existing Android™ apps run without modification on the Surface Duo, but there...