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Conditional pattern matching in Dart 3

Conditional pattern matching in Dart 3

Switching from Android development to Flutter, I encounter lots of interesting things. Some are familiar, some are surprising, and some are…
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Stephan Mantel
Records in Dart

Records in Dart

Attending a workshop about records and patterns, I did not know what a record was. They are similar to Swift, but have their gotchas
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Stephan Mantel

What’s new in Floor 1.4.2

Floor is a typesafe, reactive, lightweight SQLite database for Flutter. Android developers will probably feel familiar from the get-go…
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Thomas Middel
Flutter is stepping up its game in 2023

Flutter is stepping up its game in 2023

Pinch is already getting into its 4th year of using Flutter, and what a journey it’s been to see the framework maturing. We’re always…
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Thomas Middel
Pcov: better code coverage for Flutter

Pcov: better code coverage for Flutter

Testing can give you some great insights into the quality of your code, as well as provide you with a safety net when refactoring your code…
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Thomas Middel
Extending the Flutter Theme.

Extending the Flutter Theme.

Extending Flutter’s Theming is not very intuitive. This is how I’ve solved it.
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Stephan E.G. Veenstra
Why I’m choosing Flutter in 2022

Why I’m choosing Flutter in 2022

There are more than enough options in mobile development to go for, but I’m sticking with Google’s Flutter for 2022.
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Thomas Middel
DateTime and Daylight Saving time in Dart

DateTime and Daylight Saving time in Dart

Handling dates in Flutter is easy, perhaps a bit too easy? We can easily use and modify dates and times, but this can get you into trouble…
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Thomas Middel
How I made an image cropper in Flutter

How I made an image cropper in Flutter

Cropping images is a pretty common thing in apps these days, but it’s still hard to do in our Flutter apps. We usually end up with packages…
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Thomas Middel
How Flutter renders the UI

How Flutter renders the UI

As developers we make our UI through widgets, but how do they end up on the screen? How do we get that smooth 120 frames per second? Let’s…
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Thomas Middel
How to make your push notifications more interesting!

How to make your push notifications more interesting!

Most of us use push notifications in some way; It can be for personal or work-related messages that you receive on your device. Last WWDC…
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Bart de Bruin
Comparing objects in Dart made easy with Equatable.

Comparing objects in Dart made easy with Equatable.

Sometimes we need to compare objects to see if they are equal to one another. This can easily be accomplished with the equatable package.
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Stephan E.G. Veenstra
Checking connectivity in Flutter

Checking connectivity in Flutter

The connectivity package is this week’s ‘package of the week’. It lets you easily check if there’s a connection or not, giving both you but…
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Thomas Middel
Drop it like it’s 🔥 Using dropdowns in Flutter

Drop it like it’s 🔥 Using dropdowns in Flutter

Dropdowns are good when you’d like to pick an option out of a large dataset, but how do we add them in a Flutter app? And better yet: how…
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Thomas Middel
Flutter’s Stateful Widget cheat sheet

Flutter’s Stateful Widget cheat sheet

Instead of looking at something specific, let’s take a step back today and revert to one of the basics in Flutter. A brief overview of…
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Thomas Middel
Networking in Flutter — Quick guide

Networking in Flutter — Quick guide

When doing mobile development it’s inevitable: using an API. How can we consume those APIs nicely in Flutter? We managed to find a pretty…
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Thomas Middel
Flutter — Shadows & glows

Flutter — Shadows & glows

Adding a shadow or glow to your UI can add a nice finishing touch to the design. Adding elevation is nice for a feeling of depth, but we…
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Thomas Middel
Blurring your UI in Flutter

Blurring your UI in Flutter

Blurring UI can be a great and effective way of hiding certain elements. Want to blur UI in Flutter? BackDropFilter has your back!
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Thomas Middel
Flutter navigation — routing made easy

Flutter navigation — routing made easy

We all have to do it at some point: navigating from one screen to the next. How do you handle navigation in a Flutter project? Let’s look…
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Thomas Middel
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