Flutter is a framework built on top of the Dart programming language. If you’ve not heard of the Dart language, you are not alone. Dart is a newer language. It is an open source language, however it was initially developed by Google. It is designed to allow someone to write code for both native applications…
Once we’ve installed Flutter, and built the test app, we now want to look at what is in the source code, to get an idea of how we’re going to be building applications. For such a simple app, there is actually, quite a bit going on, but it’s simple enough to understand. Let’s look at…
Once you have installed Flutter, you will want to create a test application to verify. Sure, your probably ran Doctor, but an extra layer of testing won’t hurt. In VSC, on the PC press CTRL-SHIFT-P (On Mac CMD-SHIFT-P) to open the command. Start typing flutter, and click on Flutter: New Application Project. This will create…
Flutter is actually a SDK/framework on top of the Dart programming language. To install Flutter with Visual Studio Code you will have to perform several tasks which we will layout here. I have chosen Visual Studio Code (VSC) because both are supported on multiple platforms, don’t require huge amounts of resources to run, and are…
One of the issues of developing mobile apps, is much like the issues of developing desktop applications for different operating systems – they require different applications to be written. Not only do they require different applications, they require different languages. Initially Android required Java and iOS required objective C – however those languages have changed….
Today I’m answering questions that a lot of new people to Computer Science or maybe people who aren’t real familiar with Computer Science might be having the question today is what is an algorithm. Now I’m getting that question a lot more frequently because a lot of news surrounding and using the term algorithm and…
Today I’m answering a question hardware versus software and a lot of times i get students who are just coming in they’re not quite sure they had some questions and they don’t even know the differences between hardware and software. That is perfectly okay if you think about it. School, whether it’s high school or…
Related Java Classes can be grouped together in something called a package. A lot of people like to think of this as being like a folder in your file system, where you group related files. The difference is, that it is your related Java Classes. We’ve already looked at UML packages, and Java packages are…
