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Stop Bypassing SSL in Flutter: Solving the Missing Intermediate Certificate Nightmare with AIA Chasing
Stop Bypassing SSL in Flutter: Solving the Missing Intermediate Certificate Nightmare with AIA Chasing Every Flutter developer has run into this mad…
A headless CMS that only gives you an API is only half a product
This is how most headless CMS projects go for me. I pick a tool, set up my content models, and get an API. Nice. Then I sit down to build the actual…
Replacing a Flutter app bar with a FAB action stack
The tonGues notification center is a short screen: reactions, profile views and group events, most recent first. It opened from the Friends header's…
Can you migrate to material_ui yet?
What changed, and why For years, package:flutter/material.dart came with the SDK. You installed Flutter, and Material came with it, same version, sa…
Right-to-left is not a flag you flip
The first time I shipped an Arabic locale, I thought the work was translation plus one TextDirection . The translation was the easy half. What took…
App Development Cost: 9 Factors That Shape Your Budget
"How much does it cost to build an app?" It is the first question almost every client asks me, and the honest answer is: it depends on what the app…
Building Resilient Offline-First Mobile Apps: CRDTs, SQLite, and Cloud Sync in 2026
Introduction & Industry Context In 2026, the concept of an 'online-first' mobile application is largely obsolete. Users no longer tolerate disru…
Flutter State Management in 2026: What Founders Should Know Before Their Team Picks
The flutter state management 2026 conversation is a religious war, and like most religious wars it distracts from the decision that actually matters…
Hello World! I'm Uzair, a Senior Flutter Developer & Mobile Engineering Lead 🚀
Hey everyone! 👋 I've been reading articles on DEV for a while, and I figured it was finally time to properly introduce myself to the community. My n…
A Cubit or Bloc Is Just a Container Holding a Signal: How Much BLoC vs. Signals Do You Actually Need?
The False Dilemma of Modern Flutter State Management Every couple of years, the Flutter community finds itself trapped in a recurring debate. On one…
Lost your keystore? You can still publish updates on Google Play. Here is how
You open Android Studio to ship a small fix and the build asks for a keystore you no longer have. Maybe it was on an old laptop. Maybe a freelancer…
I put an AI coding agent inside an Android app. Here's everything that fought back.
I wanted to fix a bug from my phone. Not "review a PR" from my phone. Actually open a project, let an AI agent write the code, run it, see the resul…
Type-safe everything - Eliminate manual API glue code
Every Flutter app that talks to a backend needs some code you never really wanted to write. That includes an endpoint path, an HTTP request, JSON pa…
React Native vs Flutter in 2026: Which to Choose
Originally published on the MatrixInn Solutions blog . React Native vs Flutter is still the first real decision most teams make when they commit to…
Poncho Pay Integration Tutorial: Node.js API, Webhooks and Flutter
Never integrated a payment provider before? No problem. This guide takes you from zero to a working Poncho Pay payment in a Node.js API and a Flutte…
How I Cut LLM Costs 90% with Multi-LLM Chatroom CLI Agents
This article was originally published on BuildZn . Everyone talks about multi-agent systems, but nobody explains how expensive they get when you're…
The Same Seed Picked Minute 13 on the Phone and 18 on the Web
A dev.to thread last week was about daily reminders: fire one at a random minute each afternoon, but make the minute the same for a given day, so th…
The Sand in the Oyster: Why Riverpod Was Needed, and Why You Don't Need It Any More
The Invisible Grain of Sand Natural pearls do not form because an oyster feels creative. They form because an irritant—a sharp, microscopic grain of…
Designing a 12-Seat Voice Room: WebRTC/SFU, Server-Authoritative Coins, and Moderation
Social voice rooms look simple: a grid of 10–12 mic seats, a chat strip, some gift animations. Underneath, they combine three hard problems — real-t…
Deferred Deep Links in Flutter: Complete Integration Guide
Flutter's go_router or uni_links -based setup gets you clean routing once a link actually reaches the app. That's the easy 90%. The part that quietl…
I built a wellness app that is designed to be closed
Most wellness apps earn more the more often you open them. That one fact explains a lot of their design: the streak you are afraid to break, the 9 p…
Building a Zero-Telemetry Android Vault: Flutter, Encrypted SQLite, and Why We Ditched Cloud Sync
When building personal finance software, standard engineering advice says: "Spin up Supabase, plug in Plaid for automatic bank scraping, and c…
38 Dart & Flutter Tips That Actually Make a Difference in Production
After 4+ years of building Flutter applications, I’ve learned that the biggest improvements often come from small decisions repeated every day. A be…
Building File4Base: The Modern, Open-Source Alternative to old file bases (Powered by Antigravity)
For decades, platforms like Claris FileMaker, Microsoft Access, and 4D enabled businesses to build tailored database applications rapidly without ne…
Why I Made the Data Model the Single Source of Truth for Both Mobile and Web
When you're building a product that needs both a mobile app and a web app, there's a decision point early on: do you build two frontends against one…
I got tired of building the same backend twice, so I built a tool that generates it for me
Every time I shipped a product that needed both a mobile app and a web app, I ended up doing the same thing: build the backend, build the Flutter ap…
NVIDIA TensorRT Edge Model Optimization
NVIDIA TensorRT Edge Model Optimization Modern Physical AI systems are distributed pipelines. The goal is not simply higher FPS; it is predictable l…
End-to-End Smart Glasses Jetson ROS 2 Optimization
End-to-End Smart Glasses → Jetson → ROS 2 Optimization Modern Physical AI systems are distributed pipelines. The goal is not simply higher FPS; it i…
Smart Glasses Distributed AI Inference
Smart Glasses Distributed AI Inference Modern Physical AI systems are distributed pipelines. The goal is not simply higher FPS; it is predictable la…