Brad
Tally is a click counter that can be used as a clicker to count people at events or locations, as an inventory or stock counter. it can even be used for workouts. People have used… … Read more
3 years ago in Apps0
Brad
Flutter has full support for all material icons. If you are in Flutter and you are looking for a list of the icons then you have found it.. Flutter also supports Font Awesome icons. but… … Read more
3 years ago in Development, flutter0
Brad
Flutter has an AnimatedIcon class as well as Icons than can be animated. This guide will show how to use AnimatedIcon and I’ll follow up with a post on animating icons. The full code and… … Read more
3 years ago in Development, flutter0
Brad
Before starting any random project it’s best to do a little product research and perhaps flush out the idea before writing code or spending too much time on it. I’m not short on ideas and… … Read more
3 years ago in Random0
Brad
Stuck in tutorial land? Trying to build something but you’re stuck at some weird error? It’s frustrating. See if you can kick the can down the road and solve it at a later time. Sometimes,… … Read more
3 years ago in Random0
Brad
Putting a Flutter Application in the Play Store and App Store requires 14 different icon files. There are some web sites that will do it, but it still takes a while to upload & download… … Read more
3 years ago in Development, flutter0
Brad
Flutter makes it easy to debug on multiple devices at the same time. Firstly list all your devices flutter devices Which shows something like this Then edit or create a .vscode\launch.json file and make it… … Read more
3 years ago in Development, flutter0
Brad
I spent a lot of time getting a physical android device to work with the firestore emulator. This repository has a working example. The solution is to use your ip address in firebase.json and in… … Read more
3 years ago in Development, flutter0
Brad
From a Stack Overflow question with no answer: How to setup Firebase emulator for a physical device? The Firebase emulator is working fine with the mobile emulator but can’t connect to physical device and by… … Read more
3 years ago in Development0
Brad
Tech moves so fast, you can’t learn everything but that’s not that same as learning nothing. If your are not learning then you are going backwards and actually becoming less valuable.. Even if you learn… … Read more
3 years ago in Development0
Brad
Kicking of my next Flutter project. Squirrel, a communication platform for scout troops that is not email. The initial landing page is done with Astro. Squirrel is a managed communication platform that is self contained… … Read more
3 years ago in Random0
Brad
Responsive images with one line of CSS This will make your images responsive, they will be their natural size unless thier parent is too small, in that case they will shrink and be the size… … Read more
3 years ago in Development0
Brad
The Astro blog sample is a great starting point but what if you want summary pages for each month or year. The sample just has an index page with all posts and that wont scale…. … Read more
3 years ago in Development0
Brad
I played with the Astro blog sample and made a few additional features. Namely a summary page for year year and a summary for each month. That should help the layout when you have a… … Read more
3 years ago in Development0
Brad
The onCall is a straight http function. The onRequest goes via the SDK and will handle some or the boilerplate code you need for CORS and authentication. Rule of thumb: Use onRequest when you don’t… … Read more
3 years ago in Development0