This tutorial covers local storage only, no Atlas device sync Normally I use SQLite for storing large amounts of data locally, and the sqflite package has served me well for that. However, I’m now working on a project that will require syncing data across devices, and I have no idea…

The pros and the cons In this article I’ll be referring to Flutter and Dart packages, but the principles apply across languages and frameworks. There’s a package for that When you’re just getting started building a new application in a new language and framework, everything is fresh and exciting — but it’s also difficult. How…

Quick reference and tutorial Written for Flutter 3.7. Every time I need to style text in Flutter, it always feels like reinventing the wheel. I’ve written about styled text before, but this will be a quick-reference article just related to using text spans. Text vs RichText vs Text.rich If your entire text uses the same…

A minimal example for a dialog or snackbar message My friend asked me today how to show an error message in the UI when making an HTTP request. …

A short tutorial to make writing code a little faster I’m in the habit of scattering print statements around my code. This saves from having to step through a debugger to see what the code is doing. In the Dart language, it looks like this: print('message'); Everything but the message…

Why is my IDE complaining at me? Perhaps you’ve seen one of these warnings in your IDE: Prefer relative imports for files in lib/. DO avoid relative imports for files in lib/. Messages like these come from Dart’s linting rules, which are warnings generated by dart analyze and communicated to…

Understanding the difference between deep and shallow copying When you create a collection in Dart, the contents of the collection are mutable. You can see that in the following example: final myList = ['sheep', 'cow']; myList.add('horse'); // [sheep, cow, horse] myList.remove('cow'); // [sheep, horse] myList[0] = 'goat'; // [goat, horse] …