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Why Every Flutter Dev Should Care About BuildContext

While the quest for abstraction and the purist’s assertion that all APIs should be simple by design are both noble pursuits, there is a point where too much abstraction becomes harmful and hinders the personal growth of new developers. One of the most common complaints of developers who are new…

Flutter

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Flutter

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Dec 8, 2022

Supercharging Conversations With ChatGPT

As a chat company, we naturally wanted to check out OpenAI’s ChatGPT model (and have a little fun with it!) by trying to have it act as a chatbot in a conversation between friends. Since ChatGPT does not have an official API yet, our work was cut out for us…

Chatbots

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Supercharging Conversations With ChatGPT

Chatbots

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Published in Better Programming

·Sep 14, 2021

Flutter vs. React Native: The Ultimate Comparison for Your Next Project

Know which framework to choose — Over the years, it’s become common for developers to compare Flutter and React Native. Both are prevalent multi-platform tools for quickly and easily building mobile applications. If you walk into a developer meetup and ask the question, “What should I pick, Flutter or React Native?”, …

Flutter

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Flutter

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Jul 2, 2021

Add Location Sharing to a Messaging App Using Flutter

A stand-out feature of the most popular messaging applications is the ability to share a user’s location quickly and conveniently with trusted peers. Using Stream Chat and Flutter, we can implement a similar feature in very little time. In this article, we will build a small location-sharing chat feature using…

Flutter

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Flutter

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Published in Flutter Community

·Jan 4, 2021

Live Streaming With Mux, Stream, and Flutter

Livestreams are everywhere these days, from popular gaming sites such as Twitch to more casual everyday apps like Instagram. Apps use live streaming and live video to help connect users and add another level of interactivity to their platform. If you think about modern live streaming, there are many different…

Flutter

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Flutter

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Published in Flutter Community

·Apr 1, 2020

Capturing automated screenshots for play store with Codemagic

Picture this, you’re running UI tests on your Flutter application when it dawns on you, “Wouldn’t it be cool if I can capture the state of my UI at various stages during the testing process?”. If that person is you or you’re intrigued, you’ve found the right place. In this…

Flutter

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Capturing automated screenshots for play store with Codemagic

Flutter

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Published in Flutter Community

·Dec 16, 2019

Flutter Route Animations

Picture this, you open an app, tap a button and another screen fades in…cool but boring. As a developer, you are always looking for ways to make your app stand out in the sea of millions. For those who are building their apps with Flutter, custom animations are not difficult…

Android

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Android

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Published in Flutter Community

·Jun 20, 2019

A year of Flutter Community

A look back at the first year of the Flutter Community by Nash Ramdial and Jay (Jeroen) Meijer — The idea for Flutter Community was simple; create a place that users can visit to find the latest packages and articles written by Flutter developers from around the world. With this goal in mind, we set out to make it a reality. First, our GitHub organization was created by…

Open Source

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Open Source

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Published in Flutter Community

·May 13, 2019

Ins and Outs of Flutter Web

Last year at Flutter Live, the team announced to the world that they were working on bringing Flutter to the web. Earlier this week at Google IO, the Technical Preview of Flutter Web (formerly called Humming Bird) was made publicly available to developers for testing. Today we are going to…

Flutter

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Flutter

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Published in Flutter Community

·Jan 29, 2019

Building A Custom Page Load Animation in Flutter

A few weeks ago I shared a gif on my Twitter showing a really simple yet cool animation for a fictional app. The animation in question consists of two parts, the translation of elements from the bottom of the screen to their final position and the change in opacity as…

Flutter

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Flutter

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