If you use Flutter Blocs you must be familiar with Equatable. Equatable is an extension that prevents you to override the “==” operator and hashCode functions, thus reducing boilerplate code. Classes extending Equatable are by nature immutable and enforces you to define all instance variables as final. …

Introduction There are many ways to implement REST APIs in Flutter. I have gone through most of the methods and I finally found the easiest way to implement them, requiring less code and shifting the focus to the business requirements rather than all the technical bits related to low-level HTTP communications. The packages …

Successfully release IAP in a production environment Introduction Conceptually, IAP is quite easy to understand and implement, there are many libraries and code snippets available out there. However, in order to have a secure and stable way to deal with IAP and protect your business is a different story. This article…

Introduction This article is a follow up on a rather older article I wrote on real-time messaging with Flutter, which was mainly going through some early days Flutter plugin development techniques. We will present here our open-source plugin published in pub dev: https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_pubnub Why did we implement such a plugin Our main product at Ingenio: Keen (https://www.keen.com/) enables…

PubNub Plugin — Introduction Some applications need real-time messaging built in to implement various use cases. Some require publish, subscribe or both. In addition, some other apps may rely on presence, covering a wide range of use cases such as connections and disconnections from other users or systems. My current company, Ingenio, enables connections…

Animations to be taken with a grain of BLoC Introduction There have been lots of articles written about animations, some containing more or less complex code following (or not) recommended approaches. …