This article is going to pick up from where we left off in Part 1. If you haven’t read it, please do so before diving into this sequel so as to get some context. Now that we have the animation set and working, we can extend the tutorial to see…

I’ve always been interested in adding animations to my projects but I’ve always had the notion that it’s something very complicated. And perhaps it is/was, but I recently came across Lottie which I feel makes things a bit easier. So, what is Lottie? A Lottie is a JSON-based animation file…

Over the past week or so, I have been following an online tutorial for an end-to-end Flutter application. I am barely halfway through it but I have picked up a few things about containers that I’d like to share. The Container widget, just as the name suggests is like a…

If you read my previous post, then you’re aware that I participated and successfully submitted my project for the Flutter Puzzle Hack. My main aim for taking part in the challenge was to simply push myself to practice more. There were over 5,500 devs with different experience levels from over…

The Flutter Puzzle Hack is a coding challenge (hackathon) that was announced late last year. I believe it is an annual competition to see what creative apps people can come up with using Flutter. Each year, there is a different theme. This year it was the puzzle challenge while last…

I came across this tweet about three weeks ago and I was very impressed by the animations. When I saw there was a tutorial attached to it, I was excited to give it a go. Challenge accepted! The video above is a demo of the completed challenge. Peep the…

It wasn’t until the other day when I was connecting my Flutter App to Firebase that I realised I needed to know how to rename my Flutter package. (Perhaps I’ll do a write up on my process to connect Flutter and Firebase in the near future). If you are familiar…

Last week I talked a little about my struggles with widgets and nesting. In case you missed that post, you can catch up on it here. This week, in the spirit of continuous practice in the hope of becoming a Flutter guru whizz mad genius scientist, I tried putting some…

Widgets are the basic elementary units for Flutter. The UIs in Flutter are built out of widgets and the views rendered on the screen depend on the widgets used and how they are ordered. In fact there is a saying that, “Everything in Flutter is a Widget” and you learn…