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Dark mode isn’t just aesthetics anymore — it’s part of the vibe. Users expect apps to feel native, polished, and flexible. Good theming isn’t just flipping background colors; it’s about creating a consistent design language that can scale across doze...

I’ve been working on a new project called R U Ready, a full-featured Flutter dating app, and it’s been one of the most technically enriching experiences in my Flutter journey. The goal is to build a real-time, scalable, and intuitive dating platform...

When I was building my music app in Flutter, I began with the “quick and dirty” way of handling data. You know that vibe coding flow — fetch some JSON, dump it in a Map, and just wire it up to the UI. It felt fast at first, but it quickly turned into...

So here’s the story. I was facing a technical debt kind of issue in my Flutter music app — my MusicPlaybackService was doing two jobs: 1. Talking to the audio engine audioservice + justaudio to play/pause/skip. 2. Acting like a ChangeNotifier to upd...

Imagine you’re building a music player app You have: A Play button on the player screen A Mini Player at the bottom of the home screen A Playlist screen showing all songs Now… Flutter gives you multiple ways to manage data and update the UI. Thr...

I hit a weird but common UI issue in my Flutter music player app: Whenever I tapped the mini player to open the full screen player, the seek bar would flash 0:00 for a split second — and then jump to the actual current timestamp. It looked like pla...

I was facing this annoying issue in Flutter music player: When you tap songs quickly like switching from one to another, playback breaks, mini player disappears, and you have to tap again to play. It was 2-3 times out of every 10 switch. It took m...

If you're building a music app with onaudioquery, it’s tempting to call querySongs everywhere—home screen, playlists, search, etc. But this means repeated storage scans → slower UI, battery drain, and unnecessary complexity. The Wrong Way – Querying...

Ever had your Flutter screen layout shift or break when your text changes length? The Problem In my music player screen, long song titles caused the UI to push down — shifting the seek bar & controls, or worse, throwing an overflow error. Here’s ...

I recently ran into a subtle but super frustrating issue in my Flutter music player app using justaudio and audioservice. It had to do with updating the playback queue when selecting a new song — and I want to share how I fixed it. The Problem Le...

The music app I vibe coded is working fine but I wanted to improve it. So I decided to add some extra features like playing in the background so that I can control playback from notification bar. Cool right ? I also wanted to refactor my code becaus...

Ever noticed how even the simplest apps want access to everything? I just wanted to play music — not hand over my call logs. Even lightweight music players come loaded with creepy permission requests. Contacts? Call data? Overlay access? Just to hit...

Reelora – My Second Month, Second Product...