The blog of Abraham Williams

Originally published on bendyworks.com . This is it. 31 blog posts in 31 days. Writing  a month of flutter  has been a ton of work but also lots of fun and a good learning experience. I really appreciate how supportive and and positive everyone as been. Publishing experience For the series I've been posting on  bendyworks.com ,  DEV ,  my personal blog , and  Medium . After publishing to these sites, I would put the Bendyworks link on  Twitter ,  Reddit , and the  Flutter Study Group Slack . Posting to DEV was easy as they use Markdown just like the Bendworks blog. DEV also has built in support for a  series of posts  so it's easy to read the entire series. I did have to manually upload any embedded images. DEV also has a number of  liquid tags  for embedding things like GitHub issues that I didn't make as much use of as I should have. Blogger is rich text so it was easy to copy/paste the rendered posts. This would hotlink all the images though so I had to rem

Originally published on bendyworks.com . For the last post before the month's wrap up tomorrow, I wanted to do something more fun: use a  hero animation between the home page list and the individual post page. When I first implemented the  Hero  animation it never worked going back from a  PostPage  to the  HomePage . The reason was that  HomePage  would get rerendered and that would  generate new fake posts . So I moved the fake data generation up a level to  MyApp  and pass it into  HomePage . This is more realistic as going to the  HomePage  shouldn't request the  Post s every time. HomePage ( title: 'Birb' , posts: _loadPosts ( context ), ) The  PostPage  implementation is a simple  StatelessWidget  that takes  Post  and renders a  PostItem . This will become more complex as things like comments and likes are implemented but works for now. class PostPage extends StatelessWidget { const PostPage ({ Key key , @required this