Tag: flutter
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Executing Dart in the Background with Flutter Plugins and Geofencing
Whether handling push notifications, location updates, or sensor events, many useful features require that an application has the ability to handle events without user interaction, even when not running in the foreground.
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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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…
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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