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I sometimes write blog-like articles about Flutter and publish them here. Who knows, maybe I will make some cross-posts on other sites too, some rainy day. We will see, but for now you can find Flutter Santa’s rumblings here.

Occasionally, I also publish Flutter Gists that you can try in DartPad. The Gists might be a Flutter example, snippet, issue or a setup that I found useful and wanted to share in a short blog-like format and also document it. This way I can find it myself when I need it again. My more or less documented Flutter Gists can be found here.

Chill, peace and Flutter love to you all! 💙
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Flutter Linting Comparison

(Jul 28, 2021, Updated Nov 20, 2023)

Dart linting is important, if you have not used it before, it is a good idea to start now. At the end of this article, I also present a comparison of different popular lint packages and the Dart and Flutter lint rules they use. [Read more…]

lint_compare

FlexColorScheme and Riverpod Theming

(Oct 24, 2022, Updated April 22, 2023)

This article presents a Flutter application example that shows how to use FlexColorScheme together with Riverpod to dynamically change your persisted application theme. [Read more…]

Theme demo


Deep Dive into Theming

(Sep 6, 2022, Updated Nov 28, 2022)

I had the pleasure of talking about theming Flutter apps at the Flutter Vikings 2022 conference, in Oslo on Aug 31, 2022. [Read more…]

Vikings talk


Flutter App Theming Talk

(May 19, 2022)

On May 17, 2022, at Flutter Nordics meetup at Wolt HQ in Helsinki, I had the pleasure of talking about theming Flutter applications, and the state of Material 3 Design in Flutter 3.0. [Read more…]

Material 3 talk


Roads to ThemeData

(May 2, 2022)

In this article we compare different ways to define and create a ThemeData object and look at the differences we get in effective colors in the theme. We examine 13 different roads to make a ThemeData object. [Read more…]

roads to themedata


Flutter Theming Guide

(May 1, 2022, Updated May 4, 2022)

The Flutter ThemeData object defines the look of your application, and to a degree how it behaves. The ColorScheme class is a data class that holds 27 Color properties. Flutter’s built-in components use these colors in predefined ways. [Read more…]

dash colorscheme slides


Constrained Centered Layout and Theming Flutter

(Oct 26, 2021)

In this article, I discuss challenges with the web center constrained layout in Flutter and provide a deeper dive and an example of how to theme Flutter applications. [Read more…]


ClipRect on Container with BoxShadow

(Jun 4, 2020)

A pet nit-picking Flutter rendering issue of mine is the ClipRect issue. [Read more…]

ClipRect Issue


Correct Way to Add Padding to Slivers

(Feb 21, 2020)

You cannot wrap a Sliver with normal Padding in Flutter. [Read more…]

Sliver padding


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