Category: Android app develoment

• Nov 25, 2022

  How to use tabs in Flutter?

  Flutter provides a TabBar widget that displays a horizontal row of tabs. In this post we will learn how to use TabBar widget in a Flutter app. Steps to use TabBar widget – 2. We create tabs using the TabBar widget. 3. Now, we need to display content when a tab is selected. We pass […]
• Oct 2, 2022

  How to show date picker in Flutter? -Flutter showDatePicker function

  The showDatePicker() function in Flutter displays a dialog with a Material Design date picker. Let’s see how we can use this function. How to show date picker in flutter? You call the showDatePicker() function like this – Let’s know about the initialDate parameter. When you open a dialogue to select a date in an app, […]
• Sep 7, 2022

  Video player in Flutter – Flutter video_player plugin

  In this post, you will learn to create a video player app using a flutter plugin called video_player. This plugin makes it very simple to create a video player. From the official doc: A Flutter plugin for iOS, Android and Web for playing back video on a Widget surface. How to use video_player in flutter? […]
• Aug 27, 2022

  How to pick image from gallery in Flutter? – image_picker

  In this post, you will learn how to pick an image from the gallery in a flutter app. You will also learn how to open the camera from a flutter app to capture a photo and show it in the app. I will use a plugin called image_picker to pick an image from the gallery […]
• Aug 14, 2022

  url_launcher in Flutter.

  Many times, an app wants to launch another app present on the user’s device to accomplish a task. For example, if your app has a “contact us” option, then you might give your app users options like email, text message, or call to contact. Then in this scenario, your app can simply launch an app […]
• Jul 29, 2022

  How to show an alert dialog in Flutter? – Flutter AlertDialog

  Let me start this post with a question. In a flutter app, how would you notify the user of situations that require acknowledgment? The answer is to use an alert dialog. An alert dialogue notifies the user of situations that require their acknowledgment. An alert dialogue may include a title and a list of actions. […]
• Jul 22, 2022

  Right side drawer in Flutter

  In this post, you will learn to add a drawer to the right side of the screen in Flutter. In case you want a step-by-step guide on how to add a drawer in flutter, then here’s the link to my post on this topic – https://developerxon.com/2022/04/13/how-to-create-a-drawer-in-flutter/ How to add a right-side drawer in flutter? We […]
• Jun 29, 2022

  Add fragment programmatically in android

  In this post, we will learn to add a fragment to an activity dynamically. And if you want to learn about adding a fragment via XML then, here’s the link to my post on adding a fragment to an activity via XML – https://developerxon.com/2022/06/24/how-to-add-a-fragment-to-an-activity-via-xml/ How to add fragment dynamically in android? First, create a new […]
• Jun 24, 2022

  How to add a fragment to an activity? -via XML

  You know that, in android, an activity has a lifecycle associated with them, activities receive their own input events. Like an activity, a fragment too has a lifecycle associated with them and receives its own input events. So, You can call a fragment a sub-activity. You can add a fragment to the activity or, remove […]
• Jun 22, 2022

  Send data to another activity – Android?

  In this post, we will learn to pass data from one activity to another activity. How to pass data from one activity to another in android? Passing data between activities in Android require you to use the Intent class. Using the putExtra method of the Intent class you can send data from one activity to […]