Published in Flutter Community·PinnedFlutter Design Patterns: 0 — IntroductionIntroduction to a series of articles about OOP design patterns and their implementation in Dart and Flutter — Hi, I am Mangirdas, a software engineer and Flutter enthusiast from Lithuania. I have been following the Flutter journey since its version of 0.10.2 but realized that I have not contributed to the Flutter community, yet. So I am more than intrigued to introduce a new article series — Flutter…Software Design Patterns6 min readSoftware Design Patterns6 min read
Oct 7, 2022How to improve the security of your Dart and Flutter projects on GitHubEnabling supply chain security features for Dart and Flutter projects on GitHub On October 6, 2022, GitHub announced the availability of supply chain security features for the Dart developer ecosystem. This post will review the available options and how to enable these features for your projects. Note: This article was…Dart4 min readDart4 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Jan 2, 2022Dart type you have NEVER usedDart type system goes: never say never… — First of all, the title of this article could seem like just another clickbait but let me explain. Sure, there is a chance that you have used this type, but for the sake of a pun (and I REALLY enjoy them), I had to do it - oh well, here…Software Development4 min readSoftware Development4 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Aug 25, 202111 Things to Remember for Your Next Flutter ProjectAn extensive checklist to kick-off a new Flutter project — Creating a new Flutter project is a blessing — fresh codebase, no legacy code (yet), null-safety, most recent versions of your favourite packages and so forth. But at the same time, you should make critical decisions at the beginning of the project that would lay the foundation for the future…Software Development10 min readSoftware Development10 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Apr 2, 2021Flutter Design Patterns: 23 — ObserverAn overview of the Observer design pattern and its implementation in Dart and Flutter — In the last article, I analysed a behavioural design pattern that reduces dependencies between a set of interacting objects by decoupling the interaction logic from the objects and moving it to a dedicated controller — Mediator. …Software Development9 min readSoftware Development9 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Mar 17, 2021Flutter Design Patterns: 22 — MediatorAn overview of the Mediator design pattern and its implementation in Dart and Flutter — Previously in the series, I analysed a behavioural design pattern that separates algorithms from the objects they operate on — Visitor. This time I would like to represent one another behavioural design pattern that lets you reduce dependencies between a set of interacting objects by decoupling the interaction logic from…Software Development8 min readSoftware Development8 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Jan 15, 2021Flutter Shopping App prototype: Lessons learnedSome insights on how to implement a production-quality app using Dart + Flutter — Recently, I received a task to build a shopping app prototype using Dart + Flutter. The main requirements were to use the real-world e-commerce API of free choice, implement lazy products’ loading and caching, and build products and their details page. All the other implementation details were left up to…Software Development12 min readSoftware Development12 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Nov 12, 2020Flutter Design Patterns: 21 — VisitorAn overview of the Visitor design pattern and its implementation in Dart and Flutter — In the last article, I analysed a behavioural design pattern that enables loose coupling between the sender of a request and its receiver — the Chain of Responsibility. …Software Design Patterns10 min readSoftware Design Patterns10 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Oct 22, 2020Flutter Design Patterns: 20 — Chain of ResponsibilityAn overview of the Chain of Responsibility design pattern and its implementation in Dart and Flutter — Previously in the series, I have analysed a structural design pattern that introduced a concept of a “shared object” which could be used in multiple contexts simultaneously, hence reducing the memory usage of your code — Flyweight. …Software Design Patterns11 min readSoftware Design Patterns11 min read
Published in Flutter Community·Jun 1, 2020Flutter Design Patterns: 19 — FlyweightAn overview of the Flyweight design pattern and its implementation in Dart and Flutter — In the last article, I analysed a creational design pattern that divides the construction of a complex object into several separate steps — Builder. In this article, I would like to analyse and implement a structural design pattern that helps using a huge number of objects in your code that…Software Design Patterns9 min readSoftware Design Patterns9 min read
