In the previous tutorial we explored the most basic Widget’s that you will need while developing your Flutter app. In this piece we are going to learn a few more widgets that will help you add some extra flare to your application. Before we begin ! Breaking our widget into Read more…
In this piece we are going to explore most common Widget’s in Flutter and mobile development in general. You will be covering a very small subset of Widget’s from the Flutter framework. Flutter has plethora of Widget’s and it is not practical to cover them all. Visit the official Flutter Read more…
Setting Up VS Code We will use VS Code to write our flutter code throughout this tutorial. There are many other options available as well. I personally use IntelliJ IDEA as it comes with a ton of features and customisation. Download the latest version of VS Code if you don’t Read more…
Welcome to the Flutter crash course tutorial series. So you heard about Flutter? saw it popping up in the news everyday, and now you want to get a taste of it or get started with it altogether. You have come to the right place. What is Flutter? Flutter is hybrid Read more…
Till now you have added functionality to just read and open files in the .In this tutorial you will add the features to create/delete files and folders in the files system. Adding menu options to create We will add the options to create a file/folder in the menu options of Read more…
In this tutorial you will add the functionality which enables the user to navigate back to any position in the backstack. This will be achieved by adding breadcrumbs. If you don’t know about breadcrumbs please read about it here before continuing with the article. In short, breadcrumbs are trail of Read more…
Welcome to the 3rd part of the Kotlin File Explorer series. Good job reading files from a path in the previous tutorial. Right now our application takes a single path and displays the file/folders at the path. We want to make our application more interactive. Clicking a folder should display Read more…
Introduction This tutorial series will guide you through building a simple Android File Explorer application in Kotlin. You will develop a file explorer application with core functionalities of creating, deleting, copying and moving files/folders. I assume that you have a good understanding of Android Development and Kotlin language. These tutorials Read more…
So now that you have set up the project, lets start coding and making this File Explorer come to life! (If you haven’t read the first part of this series, please read it here.) Setting up FilesListFragment The first thing you are going to do is create a Fragment named Read more…
So you are here to learn about WorkManager, before actually teaching you how to use it let me tell you what it is and what it does. WorkManager lets you schedule tasks in the background. Say your app needs to sync data or move a file to different folder or Read more…