Material and Cupertino design has been part of the Flutter ecosystem since the beginning. But sometimes you want your app to look differently without doing all the styling. In this article, I am presenting the best Flutter UI library alternatives found on pub.dev.

Debugging web apps has always been a little painful for me. Imagine you have multiple menus and nested screens. Any change resulted in a hot restart and you had to navigate to the previous screen again to see if the changes were applied. But things are about to get better!

Displaying a popup is a rather trivial task for any seasoned Flutter developer. But when you are using Riverpod as state management solution, it can be a bit tricky. Here is my approach on how to show a popup in your Flutter app with Riverpod.

Together with unit tests and integration tests, widget tests are the backbone of every testing scenario for Flutter apps. In this article, we’ll dive in and explore how to do widget testing in Flutter apps!

Celebrating user achievements is a great way to boost engagement in your Flutter apps. In this article, we’ll discover how to add simple confetti animations in Flutter apps . But since we are lazy developers, we use a package instead of creating the animation on our own. With the code examples and demo videos, you’ll be ready to blast your users away with confetti!

Here is a short guide about how to show test coverage of a Flutter app in Visual Studio Code. With code coverage, you can identify parts of your app that aren’t tested yet. However, it doesn’t tell you if your tests are good or your app is free of bugs!

Mobile apps often use bottom navigation. You can reach all entries with one hand and it’s the same for Android and iOS. For Flutter apps, there is the widget BottomNavigationBar to accomplish this. In this article, I’ll share how to use BottomNavigationBar in Flutter apps.

In software projects, there is usually a project vision of what the end product should look like. When a developer starts working, there should be some kind of mockup (best case is a Figma file, but I have also seen pencil drawings…). In this article, I want to share my strategies of how to cut a design mockup into Flutter widgets.

I introduced an AbsorbPointer widget which broke my app but the tests to prevent exactly this didn’t fail. Here is why AbsorbPointers are dangerous in Flutter widget tests.

Writing good data models is essential for every developer. In this article I want to show you how to write a proper Dart data model manually, with package support, through AI assistance, or with a web tool. Take this as a starting point to write better models in the future.

With Dart 3.7, you need to make some changes to your code and move away from dart:html. Here is how you can adapt your code with an example.

Sometimes testing is a joy and sometimes not. Here is a short excursion into the pitfalls of Flutter widget testing. Learn about handling overflow errors, the problems of SelectableText, and the icon() constructors of buttons.