TL;DR: Follow those steps if you want to run Flutter as a desktop application on beta or stable channels (and not only on master or dev).

At the time of writing this post, Flutter Desktop is still in Alpha and you are only allowed to enable it on master or…

TL;DR You can now write fast driver tests with much less amount of code using this package.

A note of warning: if you are in a Flutter project that won’t take more than 3 months, you won’t need an extensive testing approach, therefore you won’t need the approach that I…

SliverFillRemaining is fairly simple yet useful — it fills the remaining scrollable space with a widget of your choice.

The best way to learn how to write your own Sliver is to know how existing Slivers are made.

I would split Slivers into groups by their complexity:

Easy

Single child Slivers

• SliverToBoxAdapter — enables inserting a normal box Widgets as a Sliver
• SliverFillRemaining — fills remaining available space
• SliverPadding —…

TL;DR: Ever wanted to speed up your Flutter Driver Tests by 750%?

Since writing Flutter Layout Cheat Sheet article, I intended to create a similar article about Flutter’s animations.
Unfortunately using GIFs or videos is not the greatest way to show the potential of animations. I was not able to teach animations compellingly… until now, thanks to Flutter Web.

If you want…

Creating animations in Flutter is really fun and easy, but there is one bad practice that might make those animations laggy: setState.

Bad Practice: AnimationController and setState

When using AnimationController in a StatefulWidget, you might be tempted to do the following:

void initState() {
  _controller = AnimationController(
    vsync: this,
    duration: Duration(seconds: 1),
  )
  ..addListener(() …

TL;DR: Widget Keys can improve the performance of our application in places where you do not get the promised 60 FPS.

An Element is created internally by a Widget. Its main purpose is to know where in the widget tree is the widget that created it.

Elements are expensive to…