Calling from Flutter back down to the native platform (iOS / Android) has always been possible in Flutter, and pretty straightforward. But, it’s always been a bit loose. How it’s been…

When I started developing in Flutter, I just used StatefulWidget to handle any screen state. It works, it’s straight forward; and it’s what people should use when starting out to understand the build / state system. But, what about application state? Application State This is where I struggled a bit. Of course…

It’s clear that Flutter is a way to create beautiful UI cross platform, and the developer experience is lauded my many (not just me). But what about the not so pretty things … TESTING!! Some people love testing apps, I haven’t met any myself, but I hear some do. I…

Recently at work I’ve been adding voice over support to a React Native app, this has been … testing shall we say. The reason is because there are various props to use. accessibilityLabel : what will be read out, nice and easy accessible : whether its accessible, mixed here .. sometimes…

Android & iOS Developers: “React Native sucks!” Background I’ve been an Android & iOS developer for around 11 years now. Working on Android since Froyo (v2.2), and iOS since v4 (Objective-C, Pre ARC, Hardcore). Cross platform has always been a thing and it has always, always been terrible. PhoneGap 🤮, Xamarin…

I’ve recently moved onto a project at work using React Native. As a native Android developer I’ve been used to getting something like the above design from the designers and thinking, Right … lets crack out Canvas. There seem to be a few canvas libraries, which I’ll be honest I…

Neumorphism has been around for a while now and seemingly quite popular. It’s been a while since I last tried a design challenge, I was looking through dribbble and found this interesting design… Dribbble - Artboard.png by Arthur Mineev Edit descriptiondribbble.com So lets make it (or very close to it)… TL;DR give me the code: https://github.com/tunitowen/Flutter-Dark-Neumorphism Let’s ignore…

The finished product https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiJQdFeo8kk It’s been a while since I did one of these. As a big F1 fan, when I saw this awesome Dribbble by Pontus Wellgraf, I had to try and make it in Flutter. Formula 1 - Drivers Browsing I've always been a huge fan of Formula 1 motorsport and it was also a big part of my dad's Sunday rituals to make a…dribbble.com Imagery The design calls for the driver to be half on screen, luckily the imagery on formula1.com…

Another Dribbble design I found here. This bottom bar concept, I think, looks good, and had a few subtle things going on that I thought might be fun to make in Flutter. TL;DR .. here’s the code on GitHub.