TL;DR: Explore the top five tools for Flutter app development with their unique features. Use them to elevate your productivity and streamline your Flutter development journey. Flutter is the cross-platform framework for creating rich mobile, desktop, and web apps. As the number of Flutter users grows, a vast collection of plugins and extensions is available on the market to help developers increase their productivity. In this blog, I’ll walk you through the top five best tools for developing Flutter apps. They are: Flutter SDK Visual Studio Code with Flutter and Dart extensions Codemagic ..read more

TLDR: Explore the new features added to Syncfusion’s Flutter widgets and the vivid Material 3 theme support in the 2024 Volume 1 release. Welcome to a whirlwind of excitement! Brace yourself as the Syncfusion Flutter suite unveils many exhilarating updates and enhancements in the 2024 Volume 1 release. These updates are meticulously crafted to supercharge the development process and expand app capabilities.   Let’s discover the remarkable new updates! Common M3 support Syncfusion has updated the Flutter widgets to fully support Material 3, the latest specification of Material Design. I ..read more

TLDR: Syncfusion Flutter PDF Viewer allows filling forms in a PDF document with various form fields, such as, Text box, radio button, signature and more. We’ll learn to create a Flutter app with dependencies, loading a PDF form document, filling the data in the form fields, and sharing the filled form externally by designing a Share button. Filling out PDF forms electronically is a way to digitize the manual process of filling out paper forms. It also streamlines data collection processes, enhances accuracy, and contributes to a more efficient and environmentally friendly approach to handli ..read more

Syncfusion is thrilled to unveil exciting updates! Get ready for an exclusive look at the latest advancements in our Flutter widgets. These updates enable developers to create outstanding apps for iOS, Android, web, Windows, and macOS on various devices with just one set of directives. In this blog, we’ll explore some of the new features coming with Essential Studio 2024 Volume 1. If you’re curious about what’s next for the Flutter suite, keep reading! Exciting enhancements Material 3 UI support: Syncfusion Flutter widgets now fully support the Material 3 UI. Google’s latest de ..read more

Are you a Flutter developer who loves to breathe life into your apps with beautiful, interactive charts? Then, you are probably familiar with Syncfusion Flutter Charts, a powerhouse among chart libraries for Flutter. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve launched a new version (24.1.43) of our Flutter Charts library. It offers a whopping 6x to 10x rendering speed increase for fast charts and an over 10x rendering speed increase for standard charts. It reduces memory usage by 10x compared to the previous versions. We’ve given our chart library a complete makeover to make it faster, lighter, an ..read more

In this blog post, I will guide you through creating dynamic forms that can be modified at runtime using Flutter. Dynamic forms are designed to change their structure or behavior based on various factors, including user input or data from an API. By implementing dynamic forms, developers can create more flexible and adaptable forms better suited to meet the needs of users and applications. I will provide clear, step-by-step instructions and explanations to help you understand how to create dynamic forms in Flutter. Dynamic forms implementation Here is a list of prerequisites necessary for cre ..read more

Syncfusion is returning with exciting news to share with you! Get ready for a sneak peek into the latest developments in our Flutter widgets. These powerful tools enable developers to create amazing apps for multiple devices using a single set of instructions. In this blog, we’re pulling back the curtain on some cool stuff coming up in the Essential Studio 2023 Volume 3 release. If you’re curious about what’s next for the Flutter suite, stick around! DataGrid The Flutter DataGrid introduces a new feature to enhance the user experience. When you hover over a column header, intuitive icons for ..read more

Syncfusion is preparing for its second major release of the year, Essential Studio 2023 Volume 2, packed with cool and exciting features. You can expect the release by the end of June. This article offers a glimpse into some of the new features that will be introduced in the Syncfusion Flutter suite as part of the 2023 Volume 2 release. These enhancements are designed to further enhance the suite’s functionality and provide users with an even more immersive experience. PDF Viewer The Flutter PDF Viewer will offer the following new features in the upcoming 2023 Volume 2 release. Customizable p ..read more

Filtering is an essential feature in the DataGrid control. It lets us view the rows based on our required criteria. Excel-like filtering support provides users more flexibility to filter the rows as needed, easily. We are happy to announce that we have provided Excel-like filtering support to our Flutter DataGrid in the Essential Studio 2022 Volume 3 release. In this blog, we will walk through filtering in columns using the new Excel-like filtering feature. Getting started You can enable excel-like filtering by just setting the SfDataGrid.allowFiltering property to true. By enabling this ..read more

Syncfusion is excited to roll out the third major release of 2022: Essential Studio 2022 Volume 3. This third release is packed with the most-demanded, exciting controls and features for many different platforms. Also, all the bug fixes completed before the code freeze for the release are included. Here’s a brief description of the major highlights for each platform. .NET MAUI The new controls available in the .NET MAUI platform in preview status are: Autocomplete ComboBox Progress Bar (Circular and Linear) The Autocomplete control is highly optimized to load and populate suggestions quic ..read more