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If you want to integrate the Facebook Login in your app, but you want at least some small part of the Authentication to be Independent – this article is for you. The World Wide Web is a Communication Layer present on almost every meaningful device form factor. If some functionality works on it, it could…
In this article I’m gonna spill out some tips for around Images for Android Native, Flutter and Web. They are essential visual component on all platforms – Desktop, Mobile, Web and even out – in the real world. Common knowledge about Images Images are vector or raster. Vector graphics resize up and down without losing…
In this article you will learn few secrets not spoken by tutorials creating developers. These are things that many tutorial creating developers aren’t saying, because they don’t know them or realize them. Many colleagues are often too attached to the tool they are using. It has become their fetish. Other times these things are purposefully…
In this article you will read a comparison of the different state management approaches in the Flutter Framework from my full-stack and beyond point of view. Who gives a F* about these Design Patterns? From a business standpoint, it is only indirectly important. If a developer knows them well enough, he will eliminate the possibility…
In this article you’ll get samples of how to Generate Globally Unique Identifier or GUID in Java, PHP and Flutter. Why Use it? Globally Unique Identifiers have certain benefits over number/integer based auto incrementing keys and ids. They are uniquely and randomly created on multiple devices and servers. This is useful in multi-server architectures and…
Web Interceptors are the way to implement aspect oriented programming above the HTTP protocol. They do all kinds of functionality: Track usage – auditing, statistics Logging events of special interest Performance monitoring Set custom headers, data encryption, other type of application and domain specific logic Security: On the Server the goal is to prevent unauthorized…
Developers tend to attach themselves to frameworks. They see some magic tricks like the ones The Flutter Framework makes in its cross platform efforts. In the past, there were also several other wizardly-like technologies. An experienced software engineer with more than technical skills sees beyond the bytes, the shiny animations and drawings. Flutter Framework is…
In this article I’m gonna explain some details of GPS Location Access and architectural aspects in Android Native and the Flutter Framework. The Application Programming Interfaces by Google on these frameworks will probably use their private API. That’s why probably, I am expanding my learning and research beyond them. GPS Location Evolution In the beginning…
There is a plug-in for Flutter that enables you to pick a file from the underlying System. As application creators we should not worry (that much) about platform specifics. The developers of the plugin have wrapped the edge cases in a common programming interface (API). The environment details of the platforms should stay hidden for…
There is a broad trend in Programming to approach the flow of the code with Lazy manner and the Flutter Framework is no exception. On one hand there are functional and reactive programming. The modern frameworks enforce wrapping logic in callbacks, listeners, events, messages or self-contained requests. The other side is a better User Experience…