Pinch is already getting into its 4th year of using Flutter, and what a journey it’s been to see the framework maturing. We’re always curious about the yearly Flutter keynote by Google, a great way to keep track of what’s new with Flutter and Dart, and where we’re heading. This…

Testing can give you some great insights into the quality of your code, as well as provide you with a safety net when refactoring your code for example. Testing should be easy and fun, and with pcov things just got better for your Flutter projects! The Flutter framework provides you…

There are more than enough options in mobile development to go for, but I’m sticking with Google’s Flutter for 2022. Briefly looking back I’ll start off by saying that I’m originally a native Android developer, but I’ve been doing Flutter for 2.5 years now and am still enjoying it to the fullest. With…

Handling dates in Flutter is easy, perhaps a bit too easy? We can easily use and modify dates and times, but this can get you into trouble sooner than you might expect. …

Cropping images is a pretty common thing in apps these days, but it’s still hard to do in our Flutter apps. We usually end up with packages that ‘bridge’ native libraries, which is fine but not ideal. What if we can crop images through a Flutter widget instead? Don’t want…

As developers we make our UI through widgets, but how do they end up on the screen? How do we get that smooth 120 frames per second? Let’s do a quick deep-dive in how the framework goes from the widgets we create to painting the pixels on the screen! ‘Everything’s…

The connectivity package is this week’s ‘package of the week’. It lets you easily check if there’s a connection or not, giving both you but also possibly the user better feedback on what’s going on. Let’s go hands-on and give it a spin! Don’t you hate it when you get…

Flutter’s not all fun and games, the current drama on ‘iOS jank’ is causing lots of developers to either stay away from Flutter or convert their existing Flutter apps to something else. Should you do too, or are people blowing this issue out of proportion? My feed has been blowing…

Flavors in Flutter work well for separate environments, but what if we want to have a common code base with white label variants for different clients? White labeling is a common theme nowadays, at least that’s what we as a mobile agency are experiencing here at Pinch. And why shouldn’t…