A Framework that works with Flutter and works like Flutter Mike Rydstrom is known to post on his Twitter account a list of the Top 30 State Management library packages used by Flutter developers. Below, I believe, is the latest dated August 14, 2022. …

Flutter’s popup menu needed improvement I never liked Flutter’s popup menu. It’s ugly. It’s a block of white in the corner of the screen. Does it have to be just a square like that slapped on top of the AppBar? It doesn’t look good. It looks amateurish. Why can’t it…

It needs more control…I mean controllers Some days ago, I published an article offering an alternative in the arrangement of the source code for the recently released Wonderous App. Its code was copied to a separate repository and further arranged and organized in such a way as to encourage better…

A Revamp of gSkinner’s Wonderous app In the first week of September, 2022, a Canadian company named, gSkinner , partnered with the Flutter team to demonstrate Flutter's fluid navigation and animation capabilities with the release of an app called, Wonderous. …

The long-awaited extension of the State class When I first began learning Flutter back in 2018, I kept getting two particular warning messages. It was obvious I was doing something wrong and not taking full advantage of Flutter’s declarative approach to programming. …

Many are not using it right. — Here, copy this gist, inherited_state_mixin.dart, and you’ll have a mixin that provides you with a properly implemented InheritedWidget to be used with any State class. I’m seeing developers are not implementing their InheritedWidgets quite right and thus not utilizing them to their fullest. …

Flutter’s on the Web. Here’s how to get you there. — “When you compile Flutter code for the web, your application, the Flutter framework, and the web-flavored dart:ui library — all written in Dart — are compiled to JavaScript that can run on any modern browser.” — Kevin Moore, Google Product Manager. To date, Flutter runs on Windows, Mac, Fuchsia, and…

Access Your App’s State Objects. Anywhere. Easily. The previous article, Mixin’ State Objects Part 1, is displayed in the screenshot below, and I’ll suggest you read that article first before you read this one. This article is a continuation of the first and will walk through the very mixin introduced…

Find the right State object to call its setState() In time, you’ll get to know one important circumstance when working with Flutter — you will regularly need to call a State object’s setState() function. In other words, you’ll need to repeatedly ‘refresh’ or ‘rebuild’ the app’s interface and reflect any…