Have you ever flipped a light switch to turn a lamp on or off? Or turned a volume knob to make the music louder or softer? That’s about state—something that can change. In Flutter, when you want part of your app to change over time, you use a stateful widget. In this article, we’ll explore […]
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In Flutter, everything you see on the screen is a widget. From buttons to text, images to entire screens — widgets are the building blocks of your app. Some of them can change over time, while others stay exactly the same. In this article, we’ll explore StatelessWidgets — the kind that do not change once
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In Flutter, touch events — like taps, drags, and swipes — are handled using what’s called pointer events. Sometimes, you may want certain widgets to stop responding to these touches. This could be to disable a button, block user interaction during a loading state, or create overlays that ignore input. Flutter provides two powerful widgets
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Have you ever needed part of your app to stop reacting to taps for a moment? Flutter’s IgnorePointer lets you do that. It tells your app to ignore touch events in a certain area—almost like making part of the screen untouchable, without hiding anything. In this article, you’ll learn how it works and how to
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Have you ever needed to temporarily stop interacting with a part of your app, like freezing a button while something loads? That’s where Flutter’s AbsorbPointer comes in. It allows you to stop the app from responding to touches in a specific area, like placing an invisible shield over that part of the screen. In this
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Imagine you have two toy boxes. If you put them together, you have one big toy box. In math, we use the + operator to add numbers together, like this: But what if we wanted to use + on our ToyBox objects? Wouldn’t it be cool if Dart understood that adding two toy boxes means
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Imagine you’re getting ready for school. You wake up, brush your teeth, get dressed, and eat breakfast. Normally, you do these steps one after the other. Now, what if you could tell your brain:“Do all these things one after another, without repeating ‘I’ each time!” That’s exactly what method cascading does in Dart! Instead of
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Have you ever wondered how a computer knows what letters, numbers, and even emojis mean? When you type A, how does the computer understand that it’s an “A” and not some random symbol? The answer is Unicode. Unicode is like a giant language book for computers. It gives every letter, number, and symbol a unique
Imagine you’re writing a secret code on a piece of paper, and you want to keep every symbol and space exactly as you wrote it. But when you type it into a computer, some characters disappear or change! Wouldn’t it be great if you could tell the computer, “Leave my text alone!”? That’s what raw
Imagine you’re writing a letter to your friend, and you want to include their name in it. Instead of writing: “Hello, [friend’s name]!” Wouldn’t it be great if you could just tell Dart to fill in the name for you? That’s exactly what string interpolation does! String interpolation is a fancy way of saying “put
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