I started writing Flutter and Dart code a few weeks ago for a real production project that we are migrating from another tech stack (Xamarin). Soon I started using the power of code generation libraries like freezed, json_serializable, slang_build_ru...
Capturing network traffic between your application and your server is a handy way of checking and debugging the data you are sending and what comes back from the server. Charles Proxy shows network calls in a sequence or as a tree structure, includin...
Upgrading your target SDK to 26+ (Android 8) can break your push notifications all of a sudden. Fortunately it's very easy to fix.
Once we change the target Android version to 26 or higher, the app icon suddenly gets messed up, from a full-size icon to a tiny, hard to notice thing inside a white shape (a circle on the default Google launcher). I delayed upgrading to 26+ because ...
When Apple realised a LinearLayout could be useful for developers...
If you prefer coded user interfaces rather than designers (Xcode Interface Builder or Xamarin designers) you will surely like this API (available from iOS9+). It´s very readable, easy to maintain and feels more natural compared to the old one. Every ...
Every app I did need some kind of slider, like on-board or walkthroughs, product sliders, help tutorials, photo slide-shows, etc. In the past, I´ve done some view pagers with those circle page indicators in Android that involved using either 3rd part...
To download big files correctly (especially on mobile devices) we should try to achieve the following goals: Separate the download process from the current view in a background task: we don´t want the download to stop if we navigate to another view ...
Installing universal Windows apps outside of the store is a bit different than iOS or Android. HockeyApp documentation explains how to do it but they are missing some important (and perhaps frustrating) details that I will explain below. Actually, yo...
