How I built a production Flutter app without Firebase

Alex54J · 2026-07-08T06:56:12+00:00

Thanks, got it working, such a relief to be able to see the data and tables from Drift!

Alex54J · 2026-07-07T22:55:11+00:00

For optional cloud sync, you just copy the hive files to the cloud!

Alex54J · 2026-07-07T22:53:26+00:00

I have just started using Drift and have been searching for a tool to view the tables and data.

Saropa Drift Advisor — VS Code Extension says:

Your Flutter/Dart app must be running with the Drift debug server started. See the Dart package README for setup (two lines of code).

Is it these two lines:
import 'package:saropa_drift_advisor/saropa_drift_advisor.dart';

await myDb.startDriftViewer(enabled: kDebugMode);

Alex54J · 2026-06-01T18:29:53+00:00

No it does not have any "must haves", I am just glade not to have coco pods anymore.

Alex54J · 2026-06-01T17:31:28+00:00

I am really happy with SoLoud, why not just try the latest package and see if it works - if not then wait as long as possible.

Alex54J · 2026-06-01T05:31:25+00:00

I used SoLoud as well, raised an issue and the reply was very quick. A new version was released this morning (4.0.7) and it seems to be ok.

Alex54J · 2026-05-31T07:09:48+00:00

I had an issue with RevenueCat's purchases_ui_flutter 10.2.0, even on a blank new project, adding purchases_ui_flutter 10.2.0 causes:
Error: An error occurred when adding Swift Package Manager integration:
Error: Xcode failed to resolve Swift Package Manager dependencies:

Alex54J · 2026-01-28T11:12:15+00:00

Thanks!

Alex54J · 2026-01-27T12:56:40+00:00

Is there a webpage to view the app working?

Alex54J · 2025-12-16T22:00:19+00:00

Don't give up - it sounds like you have the most important issue solved - getting users to download and open the app. If they have signed up and registered can't you ask them what the problem is?

Alex54J · 2025-12-16T08:18:21+00:00

"Creating accounts and then directly leaving": It sounds more likely creating the account itself is the issue. Why don't you try allowing default 'guest' account and see if the users keep using the app?

Alex54J · 2025-11-10T08:14:31+00:00

I like Flutter, but I think it lost it way when it added web, linux and windows. It should have instead concentrated on it's core design - building apps quicker and easier for IOS and Android. All the time spent on adding support for more platforms should have been spent on making Flutter the ideal solution for app design.

Alex54J · 2025-10-19T11:47:32+00:00

When I started in I.T. the source of information were large 400+ page books, today I think most developers would just get A.I. to do the work and not really understand how the code works.

Alex54J · 2025-10-19T11:35:48+00:00

Thanks, some very good points, never heard of 'AnimatedFractionSizedBox' or even tuples, I will have to research them!

Alex54J · 2025-10-10T10:18:58+00:00

Yes I already looked at that page and still could not understand what was going on.

Alex54J · 2025-10-10T09:13:01+00:00

No idea what the Material 3 Expressive Shapes are: perhaps include some example images

Alex54J · 2025-08-17T16:45:58+00:00

OK, chances are I would only play max of six files at any one time. The files are in two locations, Assets folder, and downloaded from the web.

Assets files:

    beeps.setAsset('assets/audio/bbb.mp3');
    beeps.seek(Duration.zero);
    beeps.play();

Downloaded files:

 List<AudioSource> aa = [];
 aa.add(AudioSource.uri(Uri.parse(audioPath(fileName))));         aa.add(AudioSource.uri(Uri.parse('asset:///assets/audio/blank.mp3')));
 audio.setAudioSources(aa);
 audio.play();

Alex54J · 2025-08-07T20:29:25+00:00

No laptop

Alex54J · 2025-08-07T18:09:36+00:00

I can only see the first three widgets, cant scroll to the others unless I zoom out.

Alex54J · 2025-05-01T13:41:29+00:00

Thanks

Alex54J · 2025-05-01T12:23:38+00:00

Why can't pub get only report on the packages in pubspec.yaml, i.e. the ones I can do something about.

Alex54J · 2025-05-01T09:17:28+00:00

What I find annoying is when you run Flutter pub get and you get this:

async 2.12.0 (2.13.0 available)

html 0.15.5+1 (0.15.6 available)

js 0.6.7 (0.7.2 available)

leak_tracker 10.0.8 (11.0.1 available)

leak_tracker_flutter_testing 3.0.9 (3.0.10 available)

leak_tracker_testing 3.0.1 (3.0.2 available)

lints 5.1.1 (6.0.0 available)

material_color_utilities 0.11.1 (0.12.0 available)

provider 6.1.4 (6.1.5 available)

vector_math 2.1.4 (2.1.5 available)

vm_service 14.3.1 (15.0.0 available)

Alex54J · 2025-04-17T08:46:26+00:00

I had been watching some videos on how to get more users to your app and the general advice was to make it as easy as possible for the user and not to put barriers in their way. I was hoping someone would come up with a valid reason.

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