Jay Hackett

Deploy your Flutter app to AppCenter using Fastlane Part 1 (Android) Your created a Flutter app on your local machine but how do you share it with the world One of the most satifying feelings is picking up a new technology and building features that work. But now we want to get our app into our user hands. We will eventually want to get our apps live on the app stores for Android and iOS. But first lets deploy our app to a place where our friends can test our app before we get a bunch of negative reviews on the app store. In part one we will set up Fastlane for Android, since Android setup has less steps. Using AppCenter as a testing tool AppCenter , Also known as the "Hockey App", is a tool that is designed for buidling, testing and deploying your mobile applications. In this post we will use AppCenter as the conduent for testing our applications before we deploy our app to the app store. AppCenter gives us the ability to create our own internal "test" app stor...

Getting started with state management in Flutter (Part 1) Introduction Flutter is great for making beautiful cross-platform UIs with its everything is a widget concepts. But how do you actually move data around your application. State management is a huge part of any good application. State management is critical to providing a pleasurable user experience. We are going to dive into some of the basic state management concepts. Shift your design thinking to be declarative A huge paradigm shift when working in Flutter is thinking declaratively. The way most of our brains work make it easy to understand imperative programming concepts. When our code is organized as sequential steps we can follow the code for one branch of code to the next. When programming declaratively we describe what needs to be done and our system responds based on the action we describe. What does this mean for Flutter?  In Flutter we describe what should be done in our app and Flutter responds by drawing our...

I have been working with Flutter for a few years now and have thoroughly enjoyed working with it to build complex UIs effortlessly in mobile and web. Flutter uses Dart as its programming language. Dart is a language that seems to take the best aspects of many programming languages and brings them all together to form an easy-to-use language. Dart is easy and familiar to adopt regardless of your development background or is easy to learn if you are starting out developing for the first time. More to come on Dart in future posts. The Flutter and Dart documentation provided by Google is vast, But with so much documentation out there is it can be hard to know where to start. This is why I am writing this "_getting started_" guide to try to help new developers get started with Flutter. When I am trying to help new brand new developers learn how to work with Flutter and Dart, the constant struggle is getting the development environment setup. My goal with this post is to get y...