Creating a Cat Voting App with Flutter
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…
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About those unfinished side projects
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…
Lessons learned from publishing my first app
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…
Flutter Riverpod Future Provider – Example
Asynchronous 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, and you wait till the request is finished before you show…
Flutter Riverpod Testing – Example
Testing your Widget is important during Application Development. When it grows more complex, it becomes more work to test everything manually. Having tests for your widgets makes sure that the Widgets behave as we expect them to. This saves time…
Flutter Hooks – Testing Your Widgets
Testing your Widget is important during Application Development. When it grows more complex, it becomes more work to test everything manually. Having tests for your widgets makes sure that the Widgets behave as we expect them to. This saves time…
Riverpod State Management Example – Tic Tac Toe
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.…
Flutter Freezed – Working with Immutable’s
There are times when immutable objects can make your life a lot simpler. Freezed is here to simplify working with immutable’s in Flutter. As they say: yet another code generator for unions They promise simple syntax without compromising the number…
Animations on Value Changed with Flutter & Riverpod
With Riverpod, we can extract the state management from the Widgets. However, this also means that the Widget has no control over the value changes. When we want to start an animation when the value changes, we have to look…
Flutter Riverpod Example – Category Selection
In the latest blog posts, I wrote about Flutter Hooks and the Provider to simplify state management in Flutter. We described how to simplify the modal dialog selector of categories with Flutter Hooks and with the Provider. However, there is…