Parsing RSS Feeds in Flutter

By | December 8, 2019

Add Dependencies The first thing is to add the plugins in the pubspec.yaml file. We need 4 plugins for this demo. http package – to get the Feed webfeed – to parse the RSS/Atom Feed cached_network_image – to cache the images url_launcher – to open the feed url in a browser Your pubspec.yaml file should look like this… Read More »

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Custom BottomSheet, Custom Snackbar in Flutter using FlushBox

By | December 4, 2019

In this article we will see how to use a nice plugin called FlushBox in Flutter. Watch Video Tutorial First thing to do is to add dependencies. Add Dependencies Go to your pubspec.yaml file and add the below dependency. Once done that run ‘flutter packages get’ in the terminal to download the packages to be used by your… Read More »

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Share Data outside the application in Flutter.

By | November 11, 2019

This article will show you how to share data from our application to another, just like when you hit share on an image inside your gallery. The system will ask you to select an application to share to. Watch Video Tutorial     So we are going to achieve this in Flutter with the help of a plugin.… Read More »

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Bar Charts in Flutter

By | October 31, 2019

Hi, In this article, we will see how to draw bar charts in flutter. Watch Video Tutorial To draw charts in flutter, we need to add a dependency. So open your pubspec.yaml file and add the below dependency below dependencies. Dependencies After that run ‘flutter packages get’ to add the package. Once the plugin is installed, import it… Read More »

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Flutter DataTable + MySQL

By | September 28, 2019

In this demo we will create a flutter app that communicates with the Server and create a table, insert records, update records, fetch all records and delete records. The Data from the Server will be displayed in a DataTable. Watch Video Tutorial Here I am using XAMPP to create a local Server. You can download XAMPP from here.… Read More »

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Working With Low-Level Isolate APIs in Flutter

By | September 15, 2019

Hi In my previous video I explained about how to use Isolates at a high level. Using high-level APIs has some disadvantages though. Watch Video Tutorial Bu using Low-level APIs over the High-level compute function you can get more control over the isolates. You can pause, resume and stop the Isolates at any point of time which is… Read More »

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Performance programming in Flutter using Isolates

By | September 8, 2019

Watch Video Tutorial As you all know Flutter is a single threaded App platform. So then How to do multithreading ?. How to execute heavy operations in one thread ?. How to run big operations without affecting the UI ?. But yes, all these can be achieved with the help of Isolates. What are Isolates? Isolates are similar… Read More »

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Offline Database from WebService using SQFlite in Flutter

By | August 11, 2019

We are going to create an Offline Database using data from a Webservice. Watch Video Tutorial We are going to use the below service for that. https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/photos This service has about 5000 records, we are going to parse these records and insert all the records into the Offline SQLite database. Generate JSON Models To create json models, make… Read More »

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Google’s Flutter Quick Tips

By | July 21, 2019

Here are few quick tips for flutter developers..   Watch Video Tutorial   1. Timer 2. Get Device Type 3. ToolTips 4. Fade Image Add a ‘loading.gif’ image inside a folder ‘images’ in the root of your project. We will use this image as a placeholder for the downloading image. Note: Make sure you specify the ‘images’ folder… Read More »

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Expanded/ Multi-Level List in Flutter for Android and iOS

By | July 14, 2019

Here is a simple example for creating expanded list in flutter. Watch Video Tutorial We will create a new class named “Entry” which will be the data on each row of the list. Data Source Let’s create the array to be shown in the expanded list. Create Row Widget Create the List That’s it. Complete code

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Custom Splash Screen in Flutter for Android and iOS.

By | July 13, 2019

Lets start with iOS Watch Video Tutorial iOS Go to the flutter project folder and open the iOS folder. You will see the runner.xcodeworkspace file. Open the file in Xcode. Now if you select the root folder and select the target and go the General Tab, Here just towards the bottom you will see an option to set… Read More »

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Animations made simple in Flutter using Animator Plugin

By | July 7, 2019

This is a simple demo showing how you can animate views in flutter using very little code. Watch Video Tutorial Here is the simple code in which I am showing all basic functions in different different functions. You can call these methods in the build method and execute all.

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Network Connectivity in Flutter

By | June 10, 2019

In this demo, we will see how to check network connectivity in flutter. We will see three different ways to check connectivity in Flutter. Watch Video Tutorial Add Plugin Method 1 Method 2 Using Subscription, we can subscribe to the network change events. Method 3 What if you want to listen to network changes through out the app… Read More »

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Download ZIP, Extract it and Show the images file in List in UI

By | June 7, 2019

Watch Video Tutorial     Add Plugins   For downloading, Extracting and saving ZIP in the device, we need some plugins. So open your pubspec.yaml file and add the below plugins.   The ‘http‘ package is for downloading the zip file, ‘path_provider‘ is for saving the file inside the device and the ‘archive‘ package is for extracting the… Read More »

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Understanding Application States in Flutter

By | June 3, 2019

This example is all about understanding Application States in flutter. Although it seems simple, it’s very important. If you are an Android or iOS Developer, you may be familier with these concepts and callbacks. Andrid has onResume, onPause etc callbacks, iOS has viewWillDisappear,viewDidAppear, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions etc callback functions to acheive this. These funtions are useful most of the times… Read More »

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Play Video in Flutter

By | May 30, 2019

This is a simple example to play a video in Flutter. Add Plugin We will use the video player plugin to play video. Go to your pubspec.yaml file in your project and add the below plugin. Initialiaze the Controller Add the Video Player Widget We will add the VideoPlayer when the connectionState is done and video is actually… Read More »

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