Flutter is out there in the wild for quite a while and has got a pretty amazing response from the community since the initial Flutter 1.0 launch on Dec 4th, 2018. If you are here, you probably already know about Flutter — a cross-platform framework introduced by Google that is…

Mix helps you to build design systems in Flutter expressively and effortlessly. It offers primitive building blocks to help developers and designers create beautiful and consistent user interfaces for their applications. This makes even complex design systems easily maintainable and scalable. What is a design system? A design system is a set of standards to…

Originally published in Codemagic blog. Dart vs Kotlin? Both Dart and Kotlin have been gaining a lot of traction in recent years, though they have been around for a pretty long time. In the Google I/O 2019, they announced Android to become Kotlin-first. Similarly, Dart also came into the mainstream…

Cloud Firestore provides you an easily manageable pre-configured NoSQL database. It helps in storing & syncing data for both client and server-side development; it also supports automatic caching of data for using it even offline. Google Cloud is the driving platform behind Cloud Firestore that can be scaled easily. In…

Video streaming is an important aspect of various kinds of applications, ranging from social media apps like TikTok and Instagram (Reels), which engage users with short video clips, to proprietary video-sharing applications similar to YouTube, which allow users to share medium-length to long videos. Though a video streaming platform of…

I stumbled upon the @protocol during the Flutter Vikings Conference and participated in the @challenge organized by them. DISCLAIMER: The @challenge was a 3 day-long contest, though due to prior engagements I got just one day. …

While building an application which deals with messaging, the most important part is keeping track of whether they are online/offline (formally known as User Presence). But, if you are using Firebase Cloud Firestore as your database, then handling this is pretty challenging. In this article, I will show you how…

Flutter being a cross-platform app development framework supports devices with hugely varying screen sizes, it can run on a device as small as a smartwatch to devices like a large TV. …

In this article, I will show how you can use Google Calendar API to schedule and manage Google Meet video conference events in Flutter. Using this API you can also add attendees for an event and even send email notifications to them. For the sample app, I will be using…