Flutter & Figma

Going from Figma to Flutter in just 5 minutes

When I started developing apps with Flutter, there was this thing that one has to develop UI only using code. This makes it quite hard to visualise how the app will look beforehand. To solve this problem, Figma comes to the rescue. Using it, one can design beautiful UIs and assets for there application and then export them as images, which then can be used in Flutter using Image.asset objects. But there is one limitation to this that, even for like changing the color of button, you have to again export the image, import it into assets, and then rebuild the app to include those assets....

May 13, 2020 · 3 min · Akshay Maurya

How to add a loading screen to your Flutter websites/webapps?

Flutter allows one to create beautiful websites and all, but there is one flaw that the initial loading time, it takes is huge (1~2 seconds). This time allows android and iOS apps to show SplashScreens, but there is no such thing for websites. So today, I will show you an easy way to quickly add a CSS loader to your website. Getting Started First make sure that you have a prebuilt website on which you want to apply this effect....

April 28, 2020 · 5 min · Akshay Maurya

An app to track Coronavirus and show Country-based Stats

Today, I am going to share an app which I made using Flutter to show that stats for COVID-19 or as people commonly call it the CoronaVirus. Stay Safe Coronavirus Tracker This app basically tracks the total cases of infected persons (real-time data), in all countries with total deaths and recovered cases too. It features beautiful UI with custom animations. It has charts, global info, symtomps and other COVID-19 related info and much more stuff....

April 16, 2020 · 1 min · Akshay Maurya

Flutter: How to start?

In today’s world, everything has mostly shifted to the mobile side of the computers rather than the bulky desktops that we used a decade earlier. That’s because it promises to do most things (and sometimes more) that those old PCs could do, at increased mobility and therefore ease of access. Hence, the increase in the requirement of ways to enhance that experience. Many ways are there to create Android as well as iOS apps out there, but one of them stands out as Flutter needs only one language for both....

April 6, 2020 · 5 min · Akshay Maurya