Published inFlutter Tips·5 days agoFlutter : Improving performance using widget key : Is it a myth?Performance improvement in flutter comes in many forms. Some of it are using a column instead of a listview if possible, or separating widgets into stateful or stateless one. One trick that I was interested in after reading some articles is about reusing widget keys while switching widgets. …Flutter5 min readFlutter5 min read
May 11DystopianYou woke up. You opened your eyes. Your hands begin to seek your laptop. Opened first thing in the morning. The news. “BigTree AI wins another art contest.” Again? You said. Nobody cares. You begin to wonder how long ago everyone stopped caring. You looked outside the windows. It’s a…Science Fiction3 min readScience Fiction3 min read
May 3Dart is a Good Language and Is The Reason Why Flutter SucceedsFirst off, let me preface my argument with these: Dart is in the middle-upper section of most loved / dreaded language in stackoverflow survey. Dart is not an all-purpose language. …Dart3 min readDart3 min read
Mar 23The correct way to use BlocProviderFor those who encountered the same problem Recently I’ve encountered an error that said I cannot call add to a closed bloc because it’s closed. The issue occurs because I was using getIt with BlocProvider, for example: BlocProvider( create: (_) => getIt.get<StoreBloc>(), child: SomeChild() ) The thing is, if we’re using it like this and we calls Navigator.of(context).pop() , it also closes the bloc inside the getIt. To mitigate this issue, we need to use other method that does not close the bloc when we navigate to other screen. That method is BlocProvider.value. We should change the above’s method to:Flutter1 min readFlutter1 min read
Mar 18I’ve tried both Kotlin with XML and Flutter, which one is harder?Harder in the context of developing mobile applications. For kotlin, I can only give you an example the old library using XML and not the new compose library. Kotlin is harder. Definitely. There are several reasons why android development using Kotlin is harder than Flutter. …Flutter3 min readFlutter3 min read
Mar 164 Ways to Avoid The Null Check (!) Operator On FlutterThe null check operator is an operator to tell our compiler that the nullable variable (a variable that could be null) is in fact, not null. It is done by putting an exclamation mark after the variable. For example, the code below will produce an error without the (!): String…Dart4 min readDart4 min read
Feb 273 Git Recovery Options You Might Find UsefulOftentimes, we’ve run into trouble while coding. Some of the problems include creating a build error, pushing code that doesn’t pass CI, or, even worse, deleting someone else’s code that we thought are not used. Though, there are ways to mitigate those events using git that you might not know. …Git4 min readGit4 min read
Feb 69 Useful Basic Unix CommandsThis article is targeted at people who are new to Unix & want to learn its most-used commands that are used in the terminal. cd cd ~/Projects Unless you’re new to unix, I think everybody knows what this do. This commands will change your current terminal’s directory to another directory. For…Unix3 min readUnix3 min read
Feb 2Dart: Extend Class Functionality Using ExtensionFlutter Extension is a way to add extra function(s) into a module. To imagine its possibilities, let’s see how it works first. Let’s create an empty project and create an empty dart file (for simplicity sake, let’s call it main.dart from now on) and put this lines of code: void…Flutter3 min readFlutter3 min read
Published inFlutter Tips·Feb 1Introduction To GetIt Library in FlutterGetIt Library is a flutter library that’s usually used as a singleton for your codebase. It’s great as a service locator — as Idan mentioned—but can also be used for other things, such as adding a global state, lazily injecting a module, creating scopes in singleton, etc., etc. …Flutter3 min readFlutter3 min read
