I 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 series are prefixed with “#rTsd — Road to Surface Duo, das Entwicklertagebuch” which translates to “#rTsd — the developer’s dairy”. The title speaks for itself. Each article covers a particular “lifetime event” of mobile software development. It started almost two years ago in late 2019 with some brainstorming about the idea and early UI concepts. Now, after twelve episodes the app is still not meant for production but is looks quite nice (in my eyes), it performs mostly as it should be and the most important fact: It still makes fun to develop, refactor and update the app.
List of the first twelve articles of mine on Dr. Windows:
- #rTsd — Road to Surface Duo, das Entwicklertagebuch: Teil 1 (Idee, Motivation und Gestaltung)
- #rTsd — Road to Surface Duo, das Entwicklertagebuch: Teil 2 (Erste Schritte in C# und XAML)
- #rTsd — Road to Surface Duo, das Entwicklertagebuch: Teil 3 (Fragen und Antworten)
- #rTsd — Road to Surface Duo, das Entwicklertagebuch: Teil 4 (Service und Navigation)
- #rTsd — Road to Surface Duo, das Entwicklertagebuch: Teil 5 (Aufräumarbeiten)
- #rTsd — Road to Surface Duo, das Entwicklertagebuch: Teil 6 (Surface Duo Emulator)
- #rTsd — Road to Surface Duo, das Entwicklertagebuch: Teil 7 (Auf dem Weg zum PlayStore)
- #rTsd — Road to Surface Duo, das Entwicklertagebuch: Teil 8(Die erste Beta Version!)
- #rTsd — Road to Surface Duo, das Entwicklertagebuch: Teil 9(Wartung ist das halbe Leben)
- #rTsd — Road To Surface Duo, das Entwicklertagebuch: Teil 10 (Die Krux kein Testgerät zu haben)
- #rTsd — Road To Surface Duo, das Entwicklertagebuch: Teil 11 (Das Feuer brennt wieder)
- Wir basteln uns mit Googles Flutter einen etwas anderen RSS Reader für das Surface Duo
- Praxistest: Surface Duo und das Erstellen von YouTube Videos
- Praxistest: Wandertag mit dem Surface Duo
It would be not possible without community
I must thank the official Microsoft Technet forum for all the support especially in the beginning of the Surface Duo SDK where not everything went that great in a developer’s eye.
Of course, C# and Xamarin.Forms are not my main tech stack — I’m still a fulltime Swift software engineer. Awesome Stack Overflow community members helped me out not just once.
This all shows us, that active communities are the bread and butter of each platform and techstack. That’s why I keep pushing the Surface Duo and its unique features further and further.
Everybody is invited to help me to improve this app further. All development is visible and open sourced on GitHub.
Let’s do it together and have fun in exploring the world of dual screen devices!
