Explore the internal working of the Flutter Text Widget — Why this series? While there is quite a lot of content on usage and customisations for Flutter Widgets, there is relatively little content about how the Widget actually achieves the functionality it is designed for. Even a fairly simple Widget has a lot of simplification under the hood even excluding its main purpose…

Diving into the nuances of Developer Relations — Beginning a few years ago, jobs in the field of “Developer Relations” started growing at a steady pace. Developer Relations (or DevRel, for short) has now transformed into a field with many nuances and roles. …

Take your CustomPaint skills to a whole new level — “Everything is a widget.” Well, yes — but what is a widget? Widgets used in making Flutter apps can themselves be composed of smaller widgets. Most widgets carry some kind of visual component — either defined by themselves or represented by smaller widgets. Unlike native frameworks, Flutter underneath does not…

Going beyond standard enums in Flutter and adding useful functionality — Flutter 3 arrived a while ago now and with every release of Flutter, there are a whole lot of expectations that come along. As Flutter matures, subsequent releases may be more about polishing than new platforms or major changes. Along with this maturity though, is the flood of new developers…

Learn how you can add a playable chess game to your Flutter chat app. — Introduction Chess — a game as old as time — and yet most people disagree whether the king goes on the right or left. Chess has transitioned from the traditional board and made its way to our screens. …

Exploring CustomPaint and CustomPainter to add a Canvas to your app — NEW: I wrote a better and more comprehensive guide to CustomPaint - Definitive Flutter Painting Guide "Everything is a widget." Well, yes - but what is a widget? Widgets used in making Flutter apps can themselves be…getstream.io If you are starting out with Flutter, you may not have heard of or used the CustomPaint widget a lot. Most widgets in the framework take care of common features and functionality and even when they don’t, you…

Understanding the Ins and Outs of Widget Testing in Flutter — This article continues Part I of Widget Testing in Flutter. Welcome back to the Widget Testing Deep Dive 👋 Last time, we primarily explored the basic test file structure as well as a deeper look into what the testWidgets() function can do in a test. While we’ve gone through that…

Understanding the Ins and Outs of Widget Testing in Flutter — I’ll be honest, I haven’t historically liked testing very much — it adds time to the overall development and sometimes adds overhead when making new changes to the codebase. It took more than a few bad PRs for me to go and actually study tests and everything that makes them…

Simplify Animations in Flutter! — Flutter offers stunning simplicity in aspects like building UI and the overall process of app development. Some sorts of animations such as implicit animations are also very easy to use and do not require any knowledge of animating objects. …