Antone Schimmel

Antone Schimmel

1593977280

Announcing EzAnimation

Flutter offers stunning simplicity in aspects like building UI and the overall process of app development. Some sorts of animations such as implicit animations are also very easy to use and do not require any knowledge of animating objects. However, building explicit animations in the normal way is a concern I have often heard and I decided to do something about it.

The Current Situation

Let’s first look at a normal Flutter animation that animates a square from size 0 to 100.0 to establish the problem:

class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin {
  AnimationController _controller;
  Animation animation;

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    _controller = AnimationController(vsync: this, duration: Duration(seconds: 1));
    animation = Tween(begin: 0.0, end: 100.0).animate(_controller);

    _controller.forward();
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: Center(
        child: AnimatedBuilder(
          animation: animation,
          builder: (context, snapshot) {
            return Container(
              color: Colors.blue,
              width: animation.value,
              height: animation.value,
            );
          },
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Creating an explicit animation has cognitive overhead because many things are required to work together. Developers have questions and feedback such as:

  1. What is the SingleTickerProviderStateMixin?
  2. Why are controllers and animations separate?
  3. Creating a Curved animation is hard
  4. Creating a sequence is not straightforward

Introducing EzAnimation

Here’s the most basic possible animation using EzAnimation doing the same thing above:

Define

var animation = EzAnimation(0.0, 100.0, Duration(seconds: 1));

Start:

animation.start();

Observe:

AnimatedBuilder(
  animation: animation,
  builder: (context, snapshot) {
    return Container(
      color: Colors.blue,
      width: animation.value,
      height: animation.value,
    );
  },
),

No Ticker is required here, no AnimationController is required here, no Tween is required here, and it is very easy to supply a curve to the animation as will be shown later. (Note that this is not the most efficient type of animation, more details on that later.)

The complete code for this equivalent to the one shown in the first section is:

class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
  var animation = EzAnimation(0.0, 100.0, Duration(seconds: 1));

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    animation.start();
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: Center(
        child: AnimatedBuilder(
          animation: animation,
          builder: (context, snapshot) {
            return Container(
              color: Colors.blue,
              width: animation.value,
              height: animation.value,
            );
          },
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

When multiple animations are involved, this is much easier to handle than to use multiple controllers, animations and Tweens.

#software-development #dart #flutter #technology #programming

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Callum Owen

Callum Owen

1625595480

WPBeginner Announcements and Updates

This last Month WPBeginner has had many different announcements and great articles that we feel you should know about. Come watch this video as we cover the great announcements of everything that has been happening with WPBeginner and some helpful tutorials.

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Tutorials:

How to Add Web Push Notification to Your WordPress Site
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How to Fix the Facebook and Instagram oEmbed Issue in WordPress
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How to Move a Live WordPress Site to Local Server
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How to Prevent Text Selection and Copy/Paste in WordPress (Easy)
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How to Create a Sticky Floating Navigation Menu in WordPressHow to Track Website Visitors to Your WordPress Site
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How to Add Google Calendar Events From Your WordPress Contact Form
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How to Build an Email List in WordPress – Email Marketing 101
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Madelyn Frami

Madelyn Frami

1599336180

Announcing your Ioniconf Speakers

When we announced Ioniconf a few weeks ago, we were thrilled to see the response and sign-ups from all of our community members. I mean, we didn’t even say who was speaking at the event, so thanks for being so enthusiastic! But now we’re ready to share who is speaking at Ioniconf…so without further ado…here are your speakers!

We’ve brought together speakers from various different technology backgrounds and experiences to share insights not only on Ionic, but the Web Platform as a whole. The range of topics include, the latest in testing and static hosting, how to ship a product, and so much more. Not only do the Ioniconf speakers represent a broad cross-section of the tech landscape, they also bring a diverse set of viewpoints and perspectives. We’re thrilled that they’ve all agreed to present at Ioniconf and we hope that you are excited to learn from them as well.

We’ll be using Twitter to gather questions during the conference, so as talks are going on, use the hashtag #askioniconf to ask your questions.

I wanted to take a moment and highlight a few speakers whose talks I think will really stand out during the conference.

#all #announcements #ionic #ioniconf

Jamal Lemke

Jamal Lemke

1601319600

Announcing Flutter Windows Alpha

Our mission is to provide developers with an open source, high-productivity framework for building beautiful, native apps on any platform. So far, we’ve shipped production-quality support for Android and iOS, with eight stable releases and over 100,000 apps shipped to the Google Play Store alone. We continue to broaden our focus to include other platforms including web, macOS, and Linux. Today, we’re pleased to announce an additional target for Flutter with the alpha release of Flutter support for Windows.

#flutter #windows #programming #cross-platform-apps #announcements

Fannie Zemlak

Fannie Zemlak

1603144800

Announcing Web Previews in Appflow

Today, we’re thrilled to announce Web Previews in Appflow, the easiest way to share what you’re working on with coworkers, stakeholders, and more.

Unfamiliar with Appflow? It’s a mobile DevOps solution by Ionic that makes it easy to continuously build, deploy, and update mobile app experiences across iOS, Android, and the web. With Appflow, you can fully automate your team’s app development workflow, and go from idea to production in less time.

New to Ionic or Appflow? Try our step-by-step app wizard to build your first app and generate a web preview in minutes.

Web Previews represent the next step in our belief in the web first development strategy, and we’re especially excited for what this feature enables for teams who want a quick and easy way to share pre-production versions of their app, without the overhead and complexity of managing TestFlight, iOS enterprise certs, or any of the more complicated methods of showing off what you’ve built.

Web Previews: Faster feedback loops

Much of the app development process, especially for mobile apps, involves getting the design just right along with fine tuning the overall user experience. To do so effectively, you have to get the app into your user’s hands – screenshots and mockups don’t cut it.

Traditionally, developers would accomplish this via testing and sharing apps like TestFlight, or by generating native app binaries and distributing them via iOS enterprise certs. When it comes to iterating quickly, such as tweaking a design change or fixing bugs, it’s annoying to get slowed down by native builds.

Fortunately, when you combine Ionic Framework’s UI components and Capacitor’s cross-platform APIs, you can develop and test 99% of your app in the browser. Also known as the web first approach, you create the app locally then deploy to mobile devices and app stores when ready.

Today, we’re taking that a step further – sharing your app with your team is now a URL click away:

#announcements #appflow

Genesis Denesik

Genesis Denesik

1595431200

All the Serverless announcements at re:Invent 2019

If last year is any indication, we expect AWS to have a long list of serverless-centered announcements and launches. If you want to keep up, you’ve come to the right place.

We’re watching all the keynotes and announcements live as they happen, and compiling the “what it is” and the “why it matters” right here. Updating live all week!

re:Invent 2019 announcements

Latest:

  • AWS API Gateway v2 for HTTP
  • RDS Proxy
  • Provisioned Concurrency
  • S3 Access Points
  • Amazon Managed Cassandra Service
  • Pre-Invent Lambda Updates
  • Eventbridge Schema Registry

Most Exciting:

  • AWS API Gateway v2 for HTTP
  • RDS Proxy
  • Provisioned Concurrency
  • Pre-Invent Lambda Updates
  • Eventbridge Schema Registry

#serverless #announcements