Adding Interactivity to an Image in Flutter — Take 2 A while ago, I wrote an article on interacting with SVG images in Flutter. Interacting with SVG Images in Flutter | by Joseph Muller | Medium Although my steps worked, there were a bunch of limitations and downsides to the overall approach: It was complicated It was tedious

Sharing Images on the @platform in Flutter

Recently, I published a long article on how to read, write, and respond to real-time changes using the @platform. I focused mainly on sending plain old text and number data since that’s the easiest to demo with, but what if you wanted to let people share images? The good news is it’s possible! Setup To

The @platform: A Firebase Alternative

Firebase is awesome and I’ve used it in more apps than I can count (assuming I can only count to about 20). It has authentication, data storage, an intuitive querying SDK, and plenty of other features that most mobile app developers find themselves wanting at one point or another.  So why replace it? I asked

Handling Nested Objects in Firestore with Flutter

Flutter Newbies Start Here If you’re new to Flutter development, I’d recommend starting with something a little less involved. I used this book to learn the Flutter language: Beginning Flutter: A Hands On Guide to App Development And this one to get started with mobile app development: Android Studio 3.4 Development Essentials – Kotlin Edition: Developing Android

Flutter: Launcher Icons, Labels, and Splash Screens

Flutter Newbies Start Here If you’re new to Flutter development, I’d recommend starting with something a little less involved. I used this book to learn the Flutter language: Beginning Flutter: A Hands On Guide to App Development And this one to get started with mobile app development: Android Studio 3.4 Development Essentials – Kotlin Edition: Developing Android

A Custom Tabs Side Story

Mobile Dev Newbies Start Here If you’re new to mobile app development, I’d recommend starting with something a little less involved. I used this book to get started with Android development: Android Studio 3.4 Development Essentials – Kotlin Edition: Developing Android Apps Using Android Studio 3.4, Kotlin and Jetpack The Legend of the Bottom Toolbar

Retrieving the URL from Custom Tabs in Android

Check out the full series on Custom Tabs: Using Custom Chrome Tabs in your Android App Retrieving the URL from Custom Tabs in Android A Custom Tabs Side Story: The Legend of the Bottom Toolbar In my previous article I provided an overview of Custom Tabs, or Chrome Custom Tabs, in Android. In short, this

Using Custom Chrome Tabs in your Android App

Web Content in Android For the longest time, Android app developers had only two options when it came to accessing web content in their mobile applications. Use a third party app or implement a native Webview. Both of these solutions were imperfect and they forced developers to make sacrifices in the areas of performance or navigational

The Guide to Color Gradients in Android Studio

Adjusting the background color of your activities and fragments is one of the easiest ways to add flair to your mobile apps. A strong color palette can make a bad app okay and a good app great if applied with artistic tenderness. In this article, I’m going to explore one component of the tender artist’s

Saving Sensor Data to Internal Storage in Android

If you read my previous article on accessing sensor data in your Android app, your also probably curious about how you can analyze that data outside of the app. Perhaps you want to look for patterns in the data or track historical changes in a third party app. Whatever your reason is, its clear that