Sep 14

What’s in a name?

Programmers name everything. Patterns, packages, classes, functions, and variables. They all have names. And those names exist to communicate information to other developers about the purpose, role, and behavior of a given artifact. Today, on Twitter, I was informed that the software industry doesn’t need to align on the definitions…

Flutter

5 min read

Published in Super Declarative!

·May 18

Get Flutter text layout super powers with Super Text Layout

Flutter makes it easy to paint some plain text, and also makes it easy to add a pre-built, Material Design compliant text field into your app. Flutter makes it very difficult to do anything in-between. The Flutter Bounty Hunters and Superlist are here to make all of it easy! …

Flutter

4 min read

Published in Super Declarative!

·May 18

Make your own Flutter corner banners with Super Banners

We all know about the infamous red “debug” banner that appears in a default Flutter app. If you wanted your own corner banner, you may have found the implementation of the debug banner to be a bit daunting, and not very configurable. …

Flutter

2 min read

May 13

My thoughts on the release of Flutter 3

Flutter 3 was announced and released at Google I/O 2022. Here are some notable updates, along with my opinions. The mission I was happy to hear my friend Tim Sneath update his definition for Flutter. “Flutter is an open source toolkit, supported by Google, for building beautiful, fast, user experiences for any…

Flutter

5 min read

Mar 16

Super Editor goes mobile!

Over at the Flutter Bounty Hunters and Superlist, we’ve been busy at work on a toolkit to help Flutter developers build their own, custom document editors. Document editing has long been an underdeveloped area within the Flutter community, yet documents are core to productivity apps, journaling apps, email clients, note…

Flutter

3 min read

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·Aug 6, 2021

Why you can’t detect a “delete” action in an empty Flutter text field

In Flutter, you can’t detect when a user presses the “delete” key on a mobile keyboard in an empty text field. Many developers are confused by this limitation, as exemplified by an open issue on GitHub: Detect when delete is typed into a TextField · Issue #14809 · flutter/flutter I'm attempting to make a "CodeEntry" widget, consisting of 4 separate TextFields that accept a single digit each: It…github.com

Flutter

4 min read

Mar 3, 2021

A SuperDeclarative! perspective on Flutter Engage

Today is March 3rd, 2021 — the day of Flutter Engage. Here are my thoughts on the day’s announcements. More than a year has passed since the last official Flutter event. Flutter Engage is the latest annual progress update for the Flutter project, as well as a general marketing…

Flutter

5 min read

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·Nov 19, 2020

Photoshop Color Picker | Widget Workshop

Today we build a Photoshop-inspired color picker with control over hue, saturation, and brightness. If you enjoy the workshop, be sure to subscribe to the SuperDeclarative! YouTube channel, and also follow me @SuprDeclarative on Twitter for future productions. Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you in the next Widget Workshop.

Flutter

1 min read

Photoshop Color Picker | Widget Workshop

Photoshop Color Picker | Widget Workshop

Today we build a Photoshop-inspired color picker with control over hue, saturation, and brightness.

If you enjoy the workshop, be sure to subscribe to the SuperDeclarative! YouTube channel, and also follow me @SuprDeclarative on Twitter for future productions.

Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you in the next Widget Workshop.

Published in Super Declarative!

·Nov 5, 2020

Flipping Switch | Widget Workshop

Today we build a switch that flips in 3D. If you enjoy the workshop, be sure to subscribe to the SuperDeclarative! YouTube channel, and also follow me @SuprDeclarative on Twitter for future productions. Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you in the next Widget Workshop.

Flutter

1 min read

Flipping Switch | Widget Workshop

Today we build a switch that flips in 3D.

If you enjoy the workshop, be sure to subscribe to the SuperDeclarative! YouTube channel, and also follow me @SuprDeclarative on Twitter for future productions.

Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you in the next Widget Workshop.

Published in Super Declarative!

·Oct 22, 2020

Image Flip | Widget Workshop

Today we build a 3D image flip effect in Flutter. If you enjoy the workshop, be sure to subscribe to the SuperDeclarative! YouTube channel, and also follow me @SuprDeclarative on Twitter for future productions. Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you in the next Widget Workshop.

Flutter

1 min read

Image Flip | Widget Workshop

Today we build a 3D image flip effect in Flutter.

If you enjoy the workshop, be sure to subscribe to the SuperDeclarative! YouTube channel, and also follow me @SuprDeclarative on Twitter for future productions.

Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you in the next Widget Workshop.

What’s in a name?

Get Flutter text layout super powers with Super Text Layout

Make your own Flutter corner banners with Super Banners

My thoughts on the release of Flutter 3

Super Editor goes mobile!

Why you can’t detect a “delete” action in an empty Flutter text field

A SuperDeclarative! perspective on Flutter Engage

Photoshop Color Picker | Widget Workshop

Photoshop Color Picker | Widget Workshop

Flipping Switch | Widget Workshop

Flipping Switch | Widget Workshop

Image Flip | Widget Workshop

Image Flip | Widget Workshop

Matt Carroll