Recently, I discovered The Cat API. This API returns an image of a cat on which we can vote. Their front page shows a great example. As an owner of two adorable cats, I immediately knew that I had to create a simple app for this. Luckily with Flutter, this is a pretty simple thing to build! So what are we going to develop? First, we will display an image of a cat. Then, the user can swipe it to…

Aysynchronous operations are in almost every application that works with a backend. Whether it is GraphQL, Rest or anything else, you have the same pattern. You start the request, you wait till it is done and then show the data. In Flutter, Riverpod provides the FutureProvider. By using FutureProvider, the UI will be able to read the state of the future synchronously, handle the loading/error states, and rebuild when the future completes. Setup the Project Before we can start with coding,…

Testing your Widget is important during Application Development. When it grows more complex, it becomes more work to manually test everything. Having tests for your widgets makes sure that the Widgets behave as we expect them to. This saves time when developing new features. In the last blog post, we already showed how to do this with Flutter Hooks. In this blog post we are testing our Flutter Riverpod example. Setup the project Before we can start with coding, we…

We are going to show another example of Riverpod. This time we will create Tic Tac Toe. As shown earlier, we can easily create Tic Tac Toe with animation in Flutter. However, the state management was all over the place. In this blog post, we will show a better way to manage the state with Riverpod. Secondly, we are going to show another example of Flutter Freezed. Immutables can greatly help with reducing errors in your code and it works…