Outside of my working hours I have often spent time with other people involved in animal rights — be it volunteering for a local animal sanctuary, visiting shelters or planning with other animal rights groups. One thing I’ve noticed along this time is that the awareness of these groups has never been too accessible — I’ve only discovered them through chance or word of mouth, and having known of...
When building Flutter applications, we have the ability to create native components which are styled for the native experience on both Android and iOS. Whilst by default we may implement things in a material style, it is important to bear this native experience in mind. In the first set of these articles we will take a quick look at implementing tabbed navigation for the styling of both Android...
In a recent side-project of mine I needed to perform some simple loading of data from an external data source. This was all data that I had collated myself so I decided to manually load it up into Firestore — in this post we’re going to quickly take a look at how we can hook up our Flutter application to load data from a Firestore datastore to display to our users. This post will hopefully act as...
If you haven’t check out the previous post in these series, then you can do so here: Building HashTrack with Flutter: Intro and setup Building HashTrack with Flutter: Main class and Localization setup You can also find the code for this guide here: Now that we have the foundations of our application built, we’re going to go ahead and setup the first screens which will be shown to the user when...
If you haven’t check out the previous post in these series, then you can do so here: Building HashTrack with Flutter: Intro and setup You can also find the code for this guide here: Now that our project is setup, we’re ready to go ahead and start building our application. In this post we’re going to setup the core classes used to launch our application, followed by adding support for localization...
Welcome to the first post of this little series that I’m going to be publishing ~ every week from now. In this collection of posts I want to run you through creating a simple app with Flutter. Within this series we’ll be creating an application that allows us to track a collection of hashtags for both Twitter and Instagram, making it easy for us to view feeds of data for these tags whenever we...
When it comes to building apps, it’s likely that you’re going to want to perform some sort of user authentication, data storage or some other related tasks. Luckily for us, there are a collection of tools available from Firebase that allow us to achieve such things — some of these tools are also available for use with Flutter in the form of packages. In this post, I want to take a quick look at...
In an app I’m working on I needed to allow the user to input some data before sending it off to a server. This is quite a common task for applications to implement, so in this post lets take a look at how we can do this in our Flutter apps. When it comes to textual input in Flutter apps there is one two widgets that you’re probably going to use — this is the TextField and the TextFormField. The...
Bottom sheets are views which we can display at the bottom of the screen to display content to the user — this may be to prompt further interaction or display some form of other content to the user. These are always anchored at the bottom of the screen and be easily hidden from view by the user. In Flutter we get two kinds of bottom sheet widgets out of the box, this is the Persistent Bottom...
When building Flutter applications we use widgets to construct our User Interface. When it comes to these widgets there is one of two types which it can be — either stateful or stateless. In this post I want to take a look at these different types of widgets so that we can get a better understanding of them and know which one to use when it comes to defining our own widgets. Stateless widgets...