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Customize - Theme Options)visit gskinner.com gskinner blogVisit gskinner.com News and views on the world of interactive media from the gskinner team Search for: Recent Posts Flutter Vignettes updated to Dart 3.x Introducing Flutter Custom Carousel Flutter: Adapting Wonderous for Landscape Flutter: Crafting a great experience for screen readers Flutter: Rendering Optimization Tips Archives Archives Select Month May 2024 April 2024 January 2023 September 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 August 2021 June 2021 April 2021 March 2021 January 2021 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 December 2019 September 2019 August 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 October 2018 May 2018 March 2018 February 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 April 2017 November 2016 April 2016 March 2016 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 August 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 May 2012 March 2012 January 2012 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 October 2010 September 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 Home Blog HomeMay 2, 2024 May 6, 2024 by shawn.blais Flutter Vignettes updated to Dart 3.x Flutter 2 Comments We’re happy to announce that the Flutter Vignettes have been updated to Dart 3.x and Flutter 3.19! This will allow developers to more easily build the Vignettes and port the relevant source code to their own projects. If you’ve forgotten what the Vignettes are (or never knew about them in the first place!) you can check out our micro-site or view the video below as a refresher. In short: they are a collection of micro-experiments that attempt to push the boundaries of what is visually possible in Flutter. Their purpose is to inspire designers and developers to push their Flutter apps to the next level. Continue reading → April 17, 2024 May 1, 2024 by Jared Bell Introducing Flutter Custom Carousel Code , Design , Flutter Coding , design , Flutter , open source Leave a comment We’re really excited to introduce a new package called Flutter Custom Carousel , a widget for creating fully custom, animated scrollable lists. It manages all of the tricky logic surrounding scroll interactions and physics, and leaves the visual presentation of items up to you. The idea came from discussions about building a carousel widget; we were looking at the wide diversity of carousel UIs, debating which one to create, and what parameters were needed to customize it. There were too many possibilities, each with a vast range of potential customizations, and it became obvious we either had to pick a single option and try to perfect it, or take a more radical approach that empowered developers to do anything”. Continue reading → January 24, 2023 January 24, 2023 by shawn.blais Flutter: Adapting Wonderous for Landscape Flutter Leave a comment Recently we released a new version of our showcase Flutter app Wonderous which added support for landscape form factors on larger devices. In this post, we’re going to look at some of the techniques we used and showcase some real-world code examples. Continue reading → September 22, 2022 September 22, 2022 by shawn.blais Flutter: Crafting a great experience for screen readers While building the Wonderous app with Flutter, we wanted to craft a great experience for visually impaired users. In this post we’ll look at how screen readers work, and then run through the Top 10 accessibility lessons we learned.Code , Flutter accessibility , Flutter , open source 6 Comments While building the Wonderous app, we wanted to craft a great experience for visually impaired users using screen readers. Flutter does an admirable job working with these systems out of the box , but app developers also have work to do to create a polished user experience. In this post we’ll look at how screen readers work and then run through the top accessibility related lessons we learned along the way. Continue reading → September 12, 2022 September 14, 2022 by shawn.blais Flutter: Rendering Optimization Tips We learned a lot about rendering optimization while building the Wonderous app and wanted to share our top 5 optimization tips to make your Flutter app run smoother.Flutter , Performance Coding , Flutter , performance 8 Comments While building the Wonderous app, we wanted to create an experience rich in visuals and animation, but that maintained smooth performance and didn’t drain users’ batteries. We learned a lot about rendering optimization, and wanted to share our top 5 tips to help you make your Flutter app run better. Continue reading → September 6, 2022 September 14, 2022 by Grant Skinner Introducing: Flutter Animate Add beautiful animated effects & builders in Flutter, via an easy, highly customizable unified API.Code , Flutter , open source animation , Coding , Flutter , open source 6 Comments Ever wish there was an easy way to add rich animation to your Flutter UIs? I did, so when we started working on the Wonderous app , it seemed like the perfect excuse to build a best of breed open-source animation package. Continue reading → February 23, 2022 February 23, 2022 by shawn.blais Flutter: Speed up your workflow with a custom project creation script Code , Flutter 2 Comments For some reason, starting a new project always brings a small feeling of inherent joy and excitement. There is something about a clean slate that is just very comforting, the lack of constraints, the promise of the unknown! Continue reading → February 3, 2022 February 20, 2022 by Grant Skinner XD to Flutter v4: Better Layout Code v4.0 of the “XD to Flutter” plugin is available now, with a focus on simplifying and improving the Dart code it generates.Code , Flutter , open source , Tools Coding , Flutter , open source Leave a comment v4.0 of the XD to Flutter” plugin is available now, with a focus on simplifying and improving the Dart code it generates. Building on v3’s focus on improving the developer experience, v4 includes a fairly significant refactor of how layout code is generated by the plugin to enable smarter, cleaner results. Continue reading → Posts navigation Older posts ©2023...