Our apps must be fast. But sometimes it makes sense to slow them down on purpose. — We often use loaders to indicate when an API call or a long asynchronous operation is being executed. These loaders let the user know that they need to wait for the task to complete. However, if the loader is shown and hidden too quickly, it can be confusing and frustrating…

Logging is one of the ways to understand how users use your app. It allows you to track important events like navigation and errors, handled and unhandled. Let’s see how you can log using mixins in Dart. What is logging? Logs could be just text messages: 12:00:00 [I] App launch 12:00:00 [I] Home Screen…

Code generation is a powerful tool. I love it. It can significantly decrease amount of boilerplate code you have to write. With it, however, we must run terminal commands in order to make our app work. And the command is big: it’s boring to write it every time. But VS…

Notifications — is a tool Flutter uses to pass any kind of data higher in the widget tree hierarchy. Somewhere in depth of your widget tree you can fire a notification and it will go up, like a bubble. Here are the official docs. How can I use them? If a notification is fired, you…

Your ideas is the best thing you can learn from. Or at least they are your reference point. — In programming, I’ve never asked «what to do and where to start?». In fact, I didn’t really understand what I had to do (and even how to do it right). Also, I wasn’t very eager to get a job right away. I liked the process itself: you write commands and…

Each tool we use for development has its own communication context. GitHub — about code, Jira — about tasks and sprints, Confluence — about documentation, Figma — about designs, Slack — about announcements, communication and discussion, general issues. Agree: it would be ridiculous to discuss in Figma the details of…