Google is known for moonshot projects. Often they’re just that, without much hope of being brought to fruition in the near future. But Flutter is not one of those: it’s here now and it works, wonderfully. Flutter was released back in 2017 as a mobile development framework aiming to seamlessly…

This post is the third out of four in a series of posts about automating everyday tasks using scripting languages. The first one was an introduction to the hypothetical problem of having to take images divided into subfolders and dump all of them in one folder while altering their name…

This article is the first in a series of posts about automating everyday actions. We’ll start with Bash shell scripting, which allows you to write scripts to automate dull, repetitive tasks. The great advantage of Bash shell scripting compared to writing a full CLI tool to do what we need…

PSA: this Medium page will be back to an active state soon, as a mirror of the blog I’ll make public soon, with new web and mobile development stories coming very soon! — I’ve been teasing the release of the book for a while, now it’s available as a beta book from the Pragmatic Bookshelf and you can buy it, mostly content complete. There you can also find extracts and read those instead of reading this boring description of it.

You know the basics of Flutter programming, now it’s time to explain one of the most common and useful Flutter packages because the standard library isn’t enough for you anymore. — One of the packages I highlighted in my recent tour of the best Flutter packages on Pub is the image_picker package, which allows you to add an image selection dialog to a Flutter app. For example, let’s suppose you want to have an app to showcase the best pictures you…

A compilation of the most useful packages you can find on Dart Pub — One of the things Flutter makes easier and better when compared to all other mobile development frameworks and SDKs is using third-party and Google-developed libraries. An introduction to packages 90% of the time you just need to go on https://pub.dartlang.org/flutter, find the package you want and add the Installing section to the pubspec.yaml …

What you need to do to stay updated as a developer in this ever-changing industry — The world of technology and software is ever-changing and that means you need to stay on top of the news in order to avoid being caught out only being able to work with outdated technologies and frameworks. We’re still in the app “bubble” apparently Good news: yes, it looks like the biggest market for software development is…

You might have started to learn how to develop mobile apps but don’t know where to start actually building something outside of the tutorials you’re reading, or maybe you are looking for something to catch your attention and get you motivated to learn, either way this is what you were…

Just like how the technology landscape has changed in the past few years, recently there have been radical changes in the way mobile apps are being developed, both in the Android and the iOS world, and if you don’t stay on top of the changes you risk being left out…