There is a lot to like about Flutter, but one area I’m sure no one loves, is taming the Material Theme system! With over 65(!) properties, some of which, like TextTheme, break out into 10 more sub-properties is enough to make you go crazy pretty quick. Last week we looked…

One of the most verbose parts of Flutter is handling of various font styles, sizes, and families. In this post, we’ll show a couple of the tricks we’re using in production to ease this pain point. Styles.dart The first step we do in nearly every project, is to define a base…

The Flutter team recently dropped a great new transitions package, based on the new Material 2 design spec, the somewhat ambiguously-named: animations package. They are super cool to look at and appear to be highly performant. The only issue? The examples they’ve provided with the package are pretty hard to…

After sharing our simplified screen size detection example to reddit last week, we received a great suggestion from the community: the concept would work even better as a set of extension methods. The original thought was to add the methods to MediaQuery, which didn’t seem that appealing because it would…

One of the great things about Flutter, is how you can use composition to combine multiple built-in Widgets, creating unique UI’s very quickly and easily. Today, we’re going to create a FlippableBox, which is a double-sided card, that holds two pieces of content and automatically re-sizes to match its content…