Microsoft released preview SDK for dual screen

Microsoft has unveiled a preview version of the developer kit for the Surface Duo, a dual-screen smartphone. The Surface Duo is a foldable product announced in October 2019, and unlike the foldable smartphone released by Samsung Electronics, it has two physically separated 6.5-inch screens. The operating system adopts Android, but it assumes the use of two screens for the UI and has a slightly different specification from the standard. For this reason, Microsoft was announcing the release of the SDK at the time of its announcement, but it started providing it in the form of a preview.

The preview version SDK released this time contains a Java framework and emulator for developing dual screen apps. It seems that there are still quite a few bugs in the preview version of the SDK, but it is said that you can check gestures and other actions already. In addition, a trial version development kit for Windows 10X (Windwos 10X), a dual-screen operating system adopted for Surface Neo, a dual-screen Windows notebook, will be available soon, and a Microsoft Emulator will be available on February 11th.

The Surface Duo and Neo will be sold in the US at the end of this year. With foldable devices attracting attention in the smartphone and laptop industry, attention is being drawn to how much these products can appeal to consumers. Related information can be found here .