“It’s no use! I can’t run an end to end test with Flutter’s integration tests”, exclaimed one of our customers about 9 months ago. I asked what the problem was and they explained that they were using Google Authentication for logging in and used the google_sign_in package for and it wasn’t possible use Flutter’s integration tests to interact with the login screens.

In Flutter’s early days in 2019, I developed a live object detection system for a major German company, despite the platform’s constraints. With release of Flutter 3.7 and advancements of TensorFlow have catalyzed the need to refine or overhaul this approach. This article discusses the newest techniques in live-stream object detection as showcased in the flutter-tflite GitHub repository.

Mobile developers using Javascript-based mobile application development platforms such as Cordova, Ionic and React Native have enjoyed the benefit of being able to push app updates over-the-air without resubmitting their apps to the App Store or Google Play for quite some time. As long as the updates are not compiled code, and don’t change the primary purpose of the application then both Apple and Google allow this.

The success of an app in today’s fast-paced digital economy primarily relies on its speed to market, smooth user experiences, and practical development methods. Flutter, Google’s open-source UI framework, has emerged as a significant changer in app development. Flutter’s own set of benefits allows developers to build spectacular cross-platform apps quicker than ever before.

Dart and Flutter are a powerful duo when building software applications, ranging from mobile apps - Android and iOS; to desktop apps - Linux, Windows, and macOS. Flutter is sufficient to handle most application features. However, some apps involve deeper integration with their platform components. Flutter boasts of smooth and easy-to-setup mechanisms for communication between Flutter and platform hosts.

Mobile apps are spreading their roots around the globe, and taking businesses on this digital platform has become an utmost task to compete in the growing digital market. To keep businesses at pace, one of the most appealing and exceptional frameworks is Flutter. Flutter app development tools enable businesses to choose from various tools for developing an application. Each of these tools is promising for making coding agile and simpler for developers.

Welcome to another edition of #FlutterFunFriday! In this instalment we’ll be learning how to use Lua in our Flutter apps. So grab a beverage of your choice, fire up your favourite IDE and lets have some fun!

Welcome to the first edition of #FlutterFunFriday! In this instalment we’ll be learning how to use the new support Flutter has for custom shaders. So grab a beverage of your choice, fire up your favourite IDE and lets have some fun!

Flutter, introduced by Google, is an open-source software development kit (SDK) that enables developers to create high-quality and high-performance cross-platform applications for mobile, web, desktop, and embedded apps with a single codebase.