In this weekly blog series about Cat and Mice, I will discuss the whole process, from design to implementation, from publishing to artificial intelligence. Cat and Mice is a game that is played on a checkers board. One player plays the cat and has only one piece. The piece of this player starts at one side of the checker’s board. On the other side are four pieces of the mice. The goal for the cat is to reach the other…
In this weekly blog series about Cat and Mice, I will discuss the whole process, from design to implementation, from publishing to artificial intelligence. Cat and Mice is a game that is played on a checkers board. One player plays the cat and has only one piece. The piece of this player starts at one side of the checker’s board. On the other side are four pieces of the mice. The goal for the cat is to reach the other…
In this weekly blog series about Cat and Mice, I will discuss the whole process, from design to implementation, from publishing to artificial intelligence. Cat and Mice is a game that is played on a checkers board. One player plays the cat and has only one piece. The piece of this player starts at one side of the checker’s board. On the other side are four pieces of the mice. The goal for the cat is to reach the other…
In this weekly blog series about Cat and Mice, I will discuss the whole process, from design to implementation, from publishing to artificial intelligence. Cat and Mice is a game that is played on a checkers board. One player plays the cat and has only one piece. The piece of this player starts at one side of the checker’s board. On the other side are four pieces of the mice. The goal for the cat is to reach the other…
In this weekly blog series about Cat and Mice, I will discuss the whole process, from design to implementation, from publishing to artificial intelligence. Cat and Mice is a game that is played on a checkers board. One player plays the cat and has only one piece. The piece of this player is placed at one side of the checker’s board. On the other side are four pieces of the mice. The goal for the cat is to reach the…
We have showed how to implement a simple drag and drop application in Flutter. However the state management in the blog post was very simplistic and probably only useful for the most basic use cases. Of course, you can still learn about drag and drop and integrate it with your own state management solution. In this blog post, we will show how to integrate the drag and drop with the Riverpod state management solution. However, there are more excellent state…
In the latest blog posts, I wrote about Flutter Hooks, Provider, and Riverpod to simplify state management in Flutter. We described how to streamline an interactive category selection application. The user can select categories in one Widget and access those categories in another Widget. With the state management solutions, this is a lot easier to reason about, write and maintain the code. There are multiple solutions, such as GetX and Riverpod, which have different approaches. In this blog post, we…
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…
If you are anything like me, you love to start a lot of side projects. As a software developer, it is easy to start with a lot of different projects. If you know how to program, your options for side projects are infinite. However, if you are even more like me, you left most of those projects on a graveyard. With COVID-19 around, the chance is that you have more time due to less travelling, no social meetings, no sports.…
Last year I published my first app on the Google Play Store. The road there was bumpy, starting many years ago to publish a simple game. It took multiple breaks and restarts. Most of them because I thought too simple about some of the basic parts during app development. However, I also learned a lot from it and will probably not make the same mistakes again. I will discuss some of the pitfalls I fell into. Dealing with different screen…