Anatomy of a Flutter upgrade.
Running flutter upgrade is not enough...
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Flutter for Line Of Business Apps
In this series I will tell my adventures with Flutter and Line Of Business Apps
Distributing your apps by APK
Some pitfalls with versionCode and keystores
Jun 9, 20236 min read1.4K
Logging
The importance and usage of logging is for Line Of Business apps different than for consumer apps. Consumer apps Collect application crashes/warnings Narrow down problems to specific manufacturers, hardware, os versions Get insights on how much the ...
Mar 4, 20204 min read104
Async initialization of services during startup
Startup phases: Bootstrapping the native platform code Bootstrapping the Flutter code Normal application state where user interaction is allowed Bootstrapping the native platform code The first thing that happens when a Flutter app starts, is the b...
Mar 4, 20203 min read198
Local datastore, SQLite
History At the time I was programming apps for Windows CE and Windows Mobile, we used SQL CE. It integrated nicely with the Visual Studio tooling at that time and it was easy to work with. The downside of SQL CE was the likelihood of database corrupt...
Feb 26, 20205 min read69
State management with provider
History When I started exploring Flutter, there was (and there still is) a lot of discussion about state management. At that time, Google promoted Inherited Widget as the way to propagate information down the widget tree. I tried Inherited Widget, an...
Feb 23, 20203 min read121