Published in Flutter Community·Updated Sep 28, 2021Automating Flutter Workflows with the MakefileWhile developing our Flutter projects, there are many repeatable tasks — formatting, running unit tests before we create a PR, cleaning the project, and running or even building the app for different flavors. And although our IDEs can make it easy to perform some of these actions, we may have…Makefile6 min readMakefile6 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Aug 9, 2021What’s the pubspec.lock file in a Flutter Project?Each time that we run a new Flutter project and run it, we will see one message: The question is: what happens when we are getting new dependencies? As we’ve seen in a previous article — Deep Dive Into The Pubspec.yaml File — we have different ways of adding…Flutter7 min readFlutter7 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Nov 23, 2020Dynamic HTML Elements — An Approach to Flavors in Flutter WebWhen we are developing mobile Flutter applications, we know we can make use of flavors. Flavors allow us to handle different configurations for different environments — development, staging, production — adding custom assets and settings to each version of the app. However, we don’t have the same in Flutter for…Flutter Web5 min readFlutter Web5 min read
Oct 30, 2020Dependency Manager — An Approach to Multiple Repositories in FlutterAt 3Rein, our goal is to provide highly adaptable solutions that streamline operations in the equine industry. We aim to improve the welfare of horses and provide a competitive edge to athletes by using novel, scalable technologies to reduce administrative responsibilities through digitization and to improve services through automation. As…Flutter10 min readFlutter10 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Oct 26, 2020Deep Dive Into The Pubspec.yaml FileWhether we are starting a new Flutter project for web, mobile or desktop, there are two thing that will be common in all projects: the pubspec.yaml and pubspec.lock files. In this article we will explore the pubspec.yaml file - what it is and what we can do with it. The Pubspec.yaml File When…Flutter7 min readFlutter7 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Sep 20, 2020Using JavaScript in Flutter WebWhen building cross-platform applications that can run on web, mobile and desktop, we often don’t need to access the underlying platform — we are either showing static data or we are communicating with a backend server to post and display newdata. However, there are cases in which we need to…Flutter6 min readFlutter6 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Jul 4, 2020Adding a Splash Screen to Flutter WebWhen starting up a Flutter application, be it in mobile or web, there is a blank screen displayed before the app shows its first screen. In reality, what happens is that the Flutter framework engine is “booting up” before being able to show the first screen, so by default it…Flutter4 min readFlutter4 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Apr 11, 2020Understanding BuildContextIn Material Design, when we want to give some subtle feedback to the user, we may be inclined to use a SnackBar:Flutter6 min readFlutter6 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Jan 16, 2020The main function in FlutterEvery time we start a new Flutter project, there’s a single line of code that most of the times we don’t need to change. This line ensures that our Flutter app is started and shown to the user. We can read this line of code as a simple sentence…Flutter10 min readFlutter10 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Nov 14, 2019Modular Flutter Apps — Design and ConsiderationsWhen working in a big project in native Android Development, we may suffer a lot from long build times and an incoherent code structure. That’s why many projects tend to divide their codebase into multiple modules. This ensures not only that the project is divided into smaller units that can…Flutter9 min readFlutter9 min read
