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  • Flutter Release Preview 2: Pixel-Perfect on iOS

    Flutter is Google’s new mobile app toolkit for crafting beautiful native interfaces on iOS and Android in record time. Today, during the keynote of Google Developer Days in Shanghai, we are announcing Flutter Release Preview 2: our last major milestone before Flutter 1.0. View original article

  • Publishing an ASP.NET Core website to a cheap Linux VM host

    A little Linux VM on Azure is like $13 a month. You can get little Linux machines all over for between $10-15 a month. On Linode they are about $10 a month so I figured it would be interesting to setup an ASP.NET Core website running on .NET Core. As you may know, . View…

  • AnimatedContainer – Flutter Widget of the Week

    You can code up animated changes yourself with explicit animations, or you can let Flutter animate them for you! With the AnimatedContainer widget, you just build it once with a particular attribute (like color), and then rebuild it with a different value. Flutter will automatically animate the chan 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

  • Isolates: how to work with multithreading in Dart

    Here we are again with another topic about Dart language, first of all I’d like to start this article with an off-topic. View original article

  • Why Flutter Uses Dart

    Wm Leler explains why Flutter uses Dart: Here is a quick list of the Dart features that together make it indispensable for Flutter: Dart is AOT (Ahead Of Time) compiled to fast, predictable, native code, which allows almost all of Flutter to be written in Dart. This not only makes Flutter fast, virtually everything (including all…

  • Putting build methods on a diet – tips and tricks for cleaner Flutter UI code

    Flutter is great – it rocks. We have modern, fresh APIs for building complex UIs in a quite small amount of code. View original article

  • Airbnb, Udacity Abandon React Native

    Within the space of two weeks, two major enterprise dev teams have announced they have abandoned React Native, the Facebook-originated technology unveiled five years ago as a new way to code native mobile apps using JavaScript. View original article

  • Announcing Flutter Release Preview 1

    Today, we’re delighted to announce Flutter Release Preview 1, signaling a new phase of development for Flutter as we move into the final stages of stabilization for 1.0. View original article

  • What It Was Like to Write a Full Blown Flutter App

    This morning I ate TWO breakfasts. I needed all “blog-writing brainpower” I could muster. There’s a lot to cover since my last post so here we go. View original article

  • Building Forms with Flutter

    Over the years many of the apps I have built dealt with data – searching for data, listing data, submitting new data, etc.  In all of those apps there was one thing they all shared – a requirement to allow a user to submit data to a back-end via some sort of form. View original…

  • 25 Best Free Animation Libraries for Web Developers

    Upgrade your CSS animations with some Javascript! These free animation libraries will help web developers save time, create more with less code and design amazing animated projects! These free JS animation libraries in this list are very well-coded and can be used for UI design work. View original article

  • 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

  • Getting Your Hands Dirty with Flutter: Project Setup + Authorization

    For the last couple of months I’ve been looking for a cross-platform mobile framework to implement some of my ideas. Naturally, React Native was the first thing I tried. It’s rather easy to work with. View original article