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Creating WebView Content Blockers with Flutter InAppWebView

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.

How we contribute to the Flutter ecosystem

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.

Migrating a Flutter app to Material 3

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.

Automating Flutter Apps with Appium Flutter Driver using Appium Java Client

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.

Design Stunning Charts with fl_charts in 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.

Test and create mobile-friendly apps with Xray and Flutter Testing Tutorial

More people use mobile devices to access websites and applications than laptops and desktop computers. According to Statista, mobile traffic share is over 54%, surpassing desktop computers as the most used device to access the internet in 2022. Mobile also fuels 45% more financial decisions, according to the State of Mobile 2021 report. If your app isn’t optimized for mobile, it may be undervalued and underperforming financially.

A beginner's guide to go_router in Flutter

Routing is a crucial aspect of an app. Just like when you manage the application state or build the UI, you should give sufficient attention to optimizing the routing of your application. An optimized routing system helps users navigate your app and can handle the user state efficiently. go_Router is a declarative and minimal routing system built on top of Flutter’s Router API. go_router provides a convenient URL-based API to navigate between different screens.

Flutter widgets cheat sheet

Flutter is an open-source tool designed to build fast and beautiful applications across multiple platforms. The Flutter SDK has been widely adopted for developing mobile applications, and many developers are learning Flutter every day. It is important to create content that can help them do this, and that’s the aim of this blog post! So, we’ve prepared a simple cheat sheet of different Flutter widgets (and in Flutter, everything is a widget!), which you can use to build your Flutter apps.

Dr. Riverpod: How I learned to stop worrying and love state management

State management is a very controversial topic in the Flutterverse, with many holding strong opinions on it. In the last few weeks, my Twitter feed has been overwhelmed with threads about state management, covering the entire spectrum of opinions, from GetX/BLoC/Riverpod fanatics on one side to a few rare enlightened ones on the other side who recommend not using any state management at all. While I personally enjoyed almost all of them, the impact on the Flutter community has been quite severe.