Published in Level Up Coding·PinnedAutomatically Translate Your Flutter AppA Flutter Package Spotlight — Introduction If you want to reach a global audience, internationalizing your app is key. Flutter makes this easy with the flutter_localizations & intl packages combined with ARB files. However, you still need to translate your messages. That’s why I am excited to introduce auto_translator! Not only because it’s a great addition…Flutter4 min read
Published in Geek Culture·May 20Properly Implementing Android 12's Overscroll Indicator in FlutterUpdated for Flutter 3+ — Not long ago, I posted an article explaining how to implement Android overscroll in Flutter so that Android 12’s stretch effect is used if running on Android 12, and the traditional glow effect is used if running on previous versions of Android. Here is the intro from that article, explaining…Flutter4 min read
Published in Geek Culture·May 2Implementing Android 12's Overscroll Indicator Effect in FlutterUPDATE: This method has been deprecated in Flutter 3. Please read my new article to learn the updated approach to implementing this feature. As you may or may not know, Android 12 changed the overscroll indicator from a glow effect to a stretch effect. The difference can be seen below.Flutter3 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Apr 27Dynamically Pinned List HeadersA Flutter Package Spotlight — Flutter provides a powerful solution to implement advanced scrolling in the form of Slivers. As noted in the Flutter documents, a Sliver is a portion of a scrollable area that you can define to behave in a special way. This allows us to combine multiple scrollable widgets (ListView, GridView, etc.)…Flutter3 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Apr 23Timer Precision in FlutterA Flutter Case Study — Intro I came across a post on StackOverflow regarding Flutter’s (Dart’s) Timer class. The user noted the variation with which the Timer's callback was firing, feeling that it was not working as intended. Specifically, the user stated that while setting the Timer's period to 20 milliseconds, the time between execution frequently…Flutter5 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Apr 21Defining Custom Page Transitions in FlutterCompatible with Navigator 2.0 & 1.0 — If you take a look at how to animate a page route transition in the Flutter Cookbook, you will find a recipe for wrapping your Widget in a PageRouteBuilder and passing it to Navigator.of(context).push, similar to Navigator.of(context).push(_createRoute(Page2()); Route _createRoute(Widget child) { return PageRouteBuilder( pageBuilder: (context, animation…Flutter2 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Mar 22Simple & Performant State Management without an External LibraryUsing Flutter’s InheritedNotifier — Introduction State management in Flutter is fun! Okay, if you have any experience with implementing state management in Flutter, or if you are currently trying to learn the subject, you probably do not agree with that statement. I don’t blame you! Although I do enjoy a challenge, this one can seem…Flutter9 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Jan 13How to Host a Personal Email Server on Google Cloud (for Free!): Part VIFiltering Spam with Rspamd & Sieve — Articles in this series Introduction & GCP Setup Configuring Postfix, Mailgun, & DNS Records Configuring Dovecot & Encryption Managing Virtual Mailboxes with MariaDB & Postfixadmin Hosting Webmail with Roundcube Filtering Spam with Rspamd & Sieve If you have not read the previous articles in this series, please follow the links above to catch up…Information Technology8 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Jan 11How to Host a Personal Email Server on Google Cloud (for Free!): Part VHosting Webmail with Roundcube — Articles in this series Introduction & GCP Setup Configuring Postfix, Mailgun, & DNS Records Configuring Dovecot & Encryption Managing Virtual Mailboxes with MariaDB & Postfixadmin Hosting Webmail with Roundcube Filtering Spam with Rspamd & Sieve If you have not read the previous articles in this series, please follow the links above to catch up…Information Technology6 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Jan 11How to Host a Personal Email Server on Google Cloud (for Free!): Part IVManaging Virtual Mailboxes with MariaDB & Postfixadmin — Articles in this series Introduction & GCP Setup Configuring Postfix, Mailgun, & DNS Records Configuring Dovecot & Encryption Managing Virtual Mailboxes with MariaDB & Postfixadmin Hosting Webmail with Roundcube Filtering Spam with Rspamd & Sieve If you have not read the previous articles in this series, please follow the links above to catch up…Information Technology12 min read
