May 1, 2022My thoughts — Surface Duo developer for over 880 daysSince November 19, 2019 at 7 pm German local time I was busy with the development for the Microsoft Surface Duo and thus for smartphones which have more than just a screen. In these now well over 880 days I went through many valleys of tears but also through many…Android5 min readAndroid5 min read
Sep 24, 2021I asked the Surface Duo 2 SDK team if the spine feature is developer-accessible — These are my ideas why it should beJust a few days ago, Microsoft presented their new iteration of the foldable Surface Duo device with amazing new and unique features. After some hard crashes, Microsoft hopefully knows that nowadays a vivid app ecosystem is a huge part in becoming successful with such devices. Shortly after the event, I…Surface Duo2 min readSurface Duo2 min read
Sep 21, 2021Just one more day until Microsoft’s Surface Event ‘21On Wednesday, September 22nd at 11am ET Microsoft’s anual hardware event takes place. To be honest, I’m neither interested in the “normal” Surface, the Surface Book nor the Surface Studio. …Surface Duo2 min readSurface Duo2 min read
Aug 26, 2021Starting my new Surface Duo app: “DuoBahn”Winter is coming! At least it seems that the temperatures drop. What a perfect timing to start into my summer holidays. Yay. Anyways the German gouvernment launched an open data intitiavte called bund.dev (‘bund’ means “federal”). How neat. Let’s work with it! What is bund.dev? Under the title “We document Germany”, quite a…Android App Development4 min readAndroid App Development4 min read
Aug 3, 2021Reddit is the place to go to connect with user Duo’eansJust a little update to one of my last posts that the Surface Duo community is not a ghost town. I recently asked on Twitter and on Reddit if there is any other fellow Surface Duo app developer around. The Twitter response was quite low — to be honest, no…Surface Duo1 min readSurface Duo1 min read
Jul 19, 2021I published over a dozen articles covering the development for the Surface Duo — let’s write some more!It’s been a long time since I started writing about my adventures in developing for the Microsoft Surface Duo. Now, there are over a dozen, more than twelve, articles published on Dr. Windows — one of the largest German speaking Microsoft news site and community. #rTsd — Road To Surface Duo All posts of the main…Android3 min readAndroid3 min read
Jul 8, 2021The Surface Duo Design Kit Version 1.0 has been publishedAll apps require now a days a stunning but useful and productive design. For most of us it’s hard to design applications that passes all adjective from above. That’s why it is awesome to have a design kit by hand to get started with already curated and well thought design…Surface Duo1 min readSurface Duo1 min read
Jul 1, 2021Nobody is interested in the Duo! Wrong! My best performing content onYouTube, Reddit and in articles are Surface Duo related!I know, the Microsoft Surface Duo is a niche device. It’s a technology sample which will grow up after time, and hopefully iterations of the device itself. The Duo has neither a significant market share and to be honest, it seems it is nor a money-seller for Microsoft itself. But…Surface Duo2 min readSurface Duo2 min read
Jun 18, 2021The Surface Duo DX team is fast and most commited team I can imagineIn my last post, I had some open questions to the Microsoft Surface Duo Team. In less than a week, to me more exact in less den three days most of the questions got answered in a very detailed way. …Android App Development2 min readAndroid App Development2 min read
Jun 10, 2021Let me re-phrase my questions … from Surface Duo BUILD’s ATE sessionIt’s been a while since Guy and his team had an “Ask the Experts” session during Microsoft BUILD conference and later on a Twitch live team with the whole squad. I really liked it to interact with all the folks behind the device’s SDKs. …Surface Duo4 min readSurface Duo4 min read
