One of the great features that made Unity popular is its ability to provide builds for multiple platforms out of the box. But there may be scenarios in which you would like Unity to comprise just a part of your application, while the rest is written with some other framework. A typical use case is using Unity’s functionality inside a Flutter application.
Flutter vs React Native has been one of the most talked about topics recently. They are both popular open-source frameworks for building mobile applications. React Native, created by Facebook, uses JavaScript and allows developers to build apps for both iOS and Android using the same codebase. Flutter, developed by Google, uses the Dart programming language and allows for cross-platform app development.
As a senior Flutter developer, a big part of my daily job consists of reviewing code, mentoring other developers, and helping them with their problems. One mistake that I noticed developers repeating on many occasions is misusing BuildContext. I analyzed why this happens and came to the conclusion that it is because of an incomplete understanding of what BuildContext is, how it works, and its scope and lifecycle.
As an application developer, you come across various app development frameworks, including Flutter. The framework has gained significant popularity for creating very popular apps in a short period. The most popular is of course, Google Add, the app developed by Google using Flutter. But does this prove that the framework is best for your next project?
In this article, we are going to learn how to create a custom Content Blocker for our WebView instances using the flutter_inappwebview plugin. Content Blockers are usually used for blocking ads, but you can also use them to block any other content. Blocking behaviors include hiding elements, blocking loads, and, on iOS and macOS, stripping cookies from WebView requests.
This month, both Flutter and Codemagic have an anniversary to celebrate! Flutter 1.0 was released in December 2018 at Flutter Live. At the same event, we launched Codemagic, the community’s favorite CI/CD tool for Flutter. This also marked the beginning of the ongoing partnership between the Flutter team and Nevercode, the company behind Codemagic CI/CD.
At Google I/O 2021, Google announced the next evolution of Material Design, Material You, along with Android 12. The Material Design system’s biggest overhaul yet brought redesigned components, new colors, a wide range of shapes, simplified typography, new elevation, better accessibility, and many other tweaks. With this update, Flutter apps can have a consistent design across multiple platforms.
In today’s world, mobile applications are essential for any business to thrive, and almost all developed products offer web and mobile support. This has made mobile application testing an integral part of the QA life cycle, and adding to it. The onus is on the test automation engineers to develop an E2E automation suite for mobile application testing. In this blog, I will explain how test automation engineers can start using Appium to automate mobile applications developed using Flutter.
The human brain processes image 60,000 times faster than text. This should explain why we love graphs more than data tables in math or statistics or literally any subject of consideration. Easier said than done, it is not a cakewalk to draw a perfect graph. But now we can put all those worries to rest since the new fl_chart library in Flutter is a total blessing. Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit built by Google.
