How to Open-Source Your Flutter Plugin and Still Hide the Code That Pays You
The build-time binary trick that lets you ship a working feature while keeping the real logic unreadable.
Jun 30, 202615 min read31
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Flutter Theme Guide: Light Mode, Dark Mode, System Theme and Custom Brand Colors
A Quick Story to Set the Scene Meet Lumi and Nyx. They share one Flutter app. Lumi prefers light mode — bright cards, cheerful blues, a UI that feels open. Nyx wants the opposite — calm grays, a dark background, something easier on the eyes at night....
May 4, 20268 min read93
Flutter App Lifecycle Security: Why You Should Re-Validate State on App Resume
There's a category of bug that only shows up in production apps — the kind that doesn't crash, doesn't throw an exception, and doesn't even look wrong on the surface. It just quietly does the wrong thing. One of the most common in security-sensitive ...
Jan 14, 20265 min read78
Dart Private Constructors and Factory Methods: Control Object Creation Like a Pro
When Classes Start Misbehaving At some point in every Dart project, you run into a situation where your classes are being used in ways you never intended. Someone creates an object directly when there should only ever be one. Someone calls an interna...
Oct 5, 20255 min read106
Flutter Custom UI: How to Use CustomPaint, RenderBox and Canvas to Build Any Design
Flutter's widget system is genuinely impressive. Stack, wrap, align, animate, react — it handles the vast majority of UI requirements without you ever needing to reach for anything lower-level. But eventually, you hit a wall. The design calls for som...
May 22, 20255 min read36
Flutter Platform Channels Explained: MethodChannel, EventChannel and BasicMessageChannel
Flutter handles UI beautifully. Widgets compose, animations run smooth, and the same codebase works across Android and iOS without much friction. But there's a gap — Flutter's Dart layer has no direct access to platform APIs. It can't read the batter...
May 15, 20254 min read30