I’ve been experimenting Flutter.io a lot these days looking primarily, on trying different UIs and looking at their performance use-cases. So far, I’ll admit that Flutter is AWESOME. In this short post, I’ll share how I designed UI posted on LinkedIn describing a redesign of GhanaPost app. The interesting aspect for me is using Flutter to accomplish the challenge.
The design posted on Linkedln looks clean and simple compared with the original app designed contracted by the Government on behalf of the nation. For my design challenge, I decided to do that during the weekend, hahaha. Weekend hack.
Yesterday (Thursday 7th January 2019), i wanted to just write some few lines of code on the redesign but before i knew it, i was done implementing the design😂😂😂. It was really a surprise to me since i initially thought it may take sometime since i know implementing something like that in Android java/kotlin will take a huge effort to get it all done.
Lesson Learnt
I come from Android Java/Kotlin app development background and knowing the stress developers like me go through to implement some basic features and design which Flutter takes care of is pretty exciting to me.
Although everything in Flutter is a widget but you can just nest any type of widget into another. Some widget have distinct properties have will prevent that and will return an error when you try to build. For example i tried to nest a ListView.builder() widget inside a ListView() widget and got some error suggesting I wrap it in a Container() widget which i did and also returned more errors. I later settled on Column() widget which worked will.
Conclusion
Flutter is still young (Flutter 1.0) but the kind of apps i see people developing with flutter is AMAZING. I’ll advice any Developer who hasn’t tried Flutter yet to take the step to greatness and you won’t regret it.
Signing off here. Peace!!!
Oh!, before i sign off, his reaction was priceless
Post on LinkedIn
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