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…
An example app showcasing the PageView widget
With the very growing popularity of Flutter, you’ll find more and more blogs, medium articles, and YouTube videos out there on how to use Flutter’s ever-growing number of widgets. …
An in-depth look at the TextStyle Widget
We’re going to use the good ol’ startup app (the counter app) as a means to examine and demonstrate the TextStyle widget in this article. However, I’ve removed almost everything of the original code leaving just the sentence, ‘You have pushed the button…
A look into Flutter’s Navigation System
In part 2 of this series, we’ll continue our look at Flutter’s navigation system and examine another approach used to navigate from screen to screen in your Flutter app. This approach works with ‘named routes’, using the static function, Navigator.pushNamed(). …
An in-depth look at Testing in Flutter.
You’ve got to test your code. It’s a given. You’ve got to make sure it works, but like documentation, we programmers tend to write our test cases almost as an afterthought. Some shops, however, dedicate whole departments just to testing. Someone else then…
A dynamic and more adaptive popup menu
I hate 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…
A look into Flutter’s Navigation System
In Flutter, the screens or pages presented to you in a mobile app are called routes. Behind the scenes, while you navigate through the app going from screen to screen, a ‘stack of routes’ is being managed by the StatefulWidget, Navigator. There is an…
An in-depth look at the InheritedWidget
This sample app, counter_app_inherited, is being used in this article to showcase the InheritedWidget. It supplies the simple ‘counter app’ you’ll no doubt recognize whenever you create a new Flutter project. However, in this app, an InheritedWidget is involved in incrementing the counter.
Looking…
An in-depth look at MediaQuery Widget
It’s been said, many developers learning Flutter first encounter the MediaQuery widget with an error. Something akin to, “MediaQuery.of() called with a context that does not contain a MediaQuery.” For example, these developers were no doubt told to use the static function, of, in…
