Month: May 2018

  • Flutter How-To: Using BottomAppBar widget

    Google has just announced Flutter beta 3 which includes a new Material Design component called ‘BottomAppBar widget’. As soon as I read the blog post, I thought of trying this new widget out. This new Material component can be seen in action in the recently launched Google Tasks app.

  • Google launches Flutter Beta 3, its Android and iOS mobile app SDK

    Ahead of its I/O 2018 developers conference, Google has launched the third beta release of Flutter, its open-source mobile UI framework that helps developers build native interfaces for Android and iOS. The Flutter SDK has also gained official support from the Material Design team. View original article

  • Implementing adaptive master-detail layouts in Flutter

    Usually, when developing apps for mobile phones, having too much screen real estate is not the problem. In fact, quite the contrary. Much thought has to be put into how to structure the app so that it does not feel cluttered. On tablets, it is a whole different story. View original article

  • SVG Resizing Problems in IE9 and Other Browsers

    Today we are performing SVG tests on the various major browsers to see why typical images don’t always get transformed or rendered properly. SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics, have been around since 1999, but are only recently becoming more widely supported in web browsers. View original article

  • Flutter Architecture Samples

    Flutter provides a lot of flexibility in deciding how to organize and architect your apps. While this freedom is very valuable, it can also lead to apps with large classes, inconsistent naming schemes, as well as mismatching or missing architectures. View original article

  • Forms in Flutter beta 2 – important limitations

    Forms in Flutter beta 2 – important limitations

    After trying to get Flutter forms to work, mixed with learning Dart and all the Flutter’s intricacies, i came to the conclusion that Form support in Flutter is, at best, sub-par. Namely, there seems to be no support to sequence the inputs (e.g. when you insert text in the first, finish it and focus immediately…