The DexterX Developer

Ideas on how to organise the UI code in a Flutter application

This post is aimed at capturing thoughts I have had on how to approach organising UI code for a Flutter application. With some other frameworks, the UI may be written through another syntax such as through markup language. However, toolkits like Flutter have developers write "UI as code". Here the

Creating a responsive Flutter application using Material Design using a navigation drawer

Creating a responsive Flutter application using Material Design using a navigation drawer

The navigation drawer is one of the most common ways to provide a user with access to various destinations with an application. As Flutter can now be used to target other platforms...

Moved to new domain!

As you may have noticed upon trying to visit this site, I've now changed the domain to dexterx.dev and updated the name of the site as well. Apologies if you were affected by the downtime. I've tried to add redirects from the old domain but suggest updating your bookmarks

Navigation drawer template with MobX

Navigation drawer template with MobX

The navigation drawer is a common way for applications to provide users with access to various destinations in the application. Following on my post on the bottom navigation bar [https://crossingthestreams.io/flutter-application-templates/], I've created two new templates that make use of the provider [https://github.com/rrousselGit/provider] and

Flutter application templates and bottom navigation using provider and MobX

Flutter application templates and bottom navigation using provider and MobX

Application developers are accustomed to having using an IDE to create a brand new application using one of the provide templates as a starting point. For example, when creating an Android application...

Combining Flutter's AnimatedList with MobX

In my previous post, I demonstrated how MobX is a great library for doing state management with Flutter applications (at least I hope I did!). It's quite common for applications to present...

Managing UI state in Flutter with MobX and provider - Dissecting a Hacker News app

Managing UI state in Flutter with MobX and provider - Dissecting a Hacker News app

When looking at building applications for Flutter, state management has become a hot topic that there's now a dedicated section on it on the official Flutter website. Having come from a background where...

Advice and resources on writing plugins for Flutter

Advice and resources on writing plugins for Flutter

Flutter is a great framework for developing cross-platform applications, enabling developers to implement expressive and beautifully-designed user interfaces. A lot of developers may find that they only need to deal with working at the framework level where all of their code is written in Dart. However, things become more complicated

Loading paginated data with list views in Flutter

It is common for applications to retrieve a collection of data and render the results in the form of a list. In Flutter, this is achieved using the ListView widget...