Author: Saim Khalid
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Custom Fonts in Flutter
Enhance your app’s personality and readability with custom fonts. Typography plays a critical role in mobile app design. The font you choose can affect user experience, readability, accessibility, and even the perceived professionalism of your application. Flutter provides a flexible system to integrate and use custom fonts, allowing developers to create unique and polished designs…
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Dark Mode in Flutter
Dark mode has become a standard feature in modern applications, offering users an alternative to the bright, light-themed interfaces that dominate most apps. Dark mode not only reduces eye strain in low-light conditions but also helps save battery on devices with OLED or AMOLED screens. For Flutter developers, implementing dark mode is straightforward and flexible,…
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Accent Colors
Flutter, Google’s popular UI toolkit for building natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop, has revolutionized the way developers design applications. One of the most important aspects of app design is color. Colors not only make an app visually appealing but also guide users’ attention and enhance usability. Among the various color-related concepts in…
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Primary Color
Your app’s main color defines its personality. Colors are more than just aesthetic choices; they communicate the identity, mood, and purpose of your application. In Flutter, the primary color plays a crucial role in defining the look and feel of your app. Flutter makes it simple to set and manage primary colors using the ThemeData…
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Introduction to Theming in Flutter
Flutter has rapidly become one of the most popular frameworks for building cross-platform mobile applications. One of the key aspects of developing visually appealing and consistent applications in Flutter is theming. Theming allows developers to define a unified style for their entire app, including colors, fonts, text styles, shapes, and other design elements. By using…
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Real-life Example Layout
Building real-world applications in Flutter often requires combining multiple layout widgets to achieve complex and polished designs. One common example is a user profile page, which typically contains a profile picture, user details, statistics, and interactive buttons. This post will provide a detailed walkthrough of constructing a profile page using Column, Row, and Stack widgets,…
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Mastering Layout and Positioning
Building professional and responsive user interfaces in Flutter requires a solid understanding of layout and positioning. Flutter uses a widget-based approach, and every screen is composed of nested widgets that define how elements are arranged, styled, and positioned. By mastering the core layout widgets such as Container, Row, Column, Stack, Expanded, and Flex, developers can…
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Understanding the Flex Widget
Flutter is a framework that emphasizes flexible, responsive layouts. Among its layout widgets, Flex plays a central role as the base class for Row and Column. While Row and Column are more commonly used, understanding Flex gives developers deeper control over flexible layouts, allowing them to implement more advanced UI structures. This article will provide…
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What is the Expanded Widget
Introduction When building user interfaces in Flutter, creating flexible and responsive layouts is a critical skill. Flutter provides a rich set of layout widgets that allow developers to arrange content efficiently and elegantly. Among these, the Expanded widget is one of the most important for designing layouts that adapt to available space. The Expanded widget…
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Container vs SizedBox
In Flutter, layout and design are achieved using various widgets, each serving a specific purpose. Two of the most commonly used widgets for sizing and spacing are Container and SizedBox. While they may seem similar at first glance, their roles in the layout system are fundamentally different. Understanding when to use a Container and when…