This is how Microsoft intends to make the Surface Duo able to work interchangeably with one or two screens in the same app

The Surface Duo is one of the devices with which Microsoft plans to surprise the market at the end of 2020. Together with the Surface Neo, it is committed to a folding screen that, unlike models that we can now find on the market, still has a visible hinge in the center of the screen

And the existence of this hinge is what has motivated the company to adopt different functions and improvements to optimize the use of applications when running in drop-down screen mode.We now know that the Surface Duo supports the Screen Helper and Screen Manager function and thanks to 4 functions, optimizes the use of the screen that adapts to the user's needs

Screen Helper and Screen Manager

Microsoft continues to help developers create apps tailored to the Surface Duo, and a good example of this is the preview of the dual-screen design in which appear new control elements and UI of what the adoption of Android as an operating system will mean.

The Surface Duo will be able to function regardless of which way the screen is oriented. The company has shown details of how the new screen modes will be that your first Android phone can use.

With Screen Helper four functions are adopted so that an application knows where the hinge is on the screen and adapts the interface consequently.The Surface Duo can run apps in both portrait and landscape orientations, running both single apps and multiple apps. A system that allows an app to know the size of the screen and thus cover the entire available surface.

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The adaptation to the double screen will be total thanks to the implementation of Screen Manager, which will be the function that determines the that a utility goes from format on one screen to work in dual screen when it detects that the user opens the device."

There are still many months to see how the Surface Duo arrives (along with the Surface Neo) and time we will have to learn the details of the new devicessure, they will come to light, before its release.

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