Flutter Mobile Application

From Xamarin to Flutter: Mobile App Rewrite

Shaylee Webb Flutter, Mobile, Retail & eCommerce, Xamarin

A team of Keyhole consultants works on the large-scale mobile development and modernization initiative from Xamarin to Flutter.

With Keyhole’s help, the client successfully added new features to two mobile applications implemented in Flutter and Xamarin. This effort led to an increase in client revenue and client satisfaction in which the client extended the duration multiple times.

Moving Google Tag Manager from Xamarin to Flutter

Andy Link Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Flutter, Mobile, Xamarin Leave a Comment

While working with a major theater chain, I was tasked with implementing Analytics into their Xamarin app. Part of that work included implementing Google Tag Manager. At a later date, I was again tasked with implementing Google Tag Manager but this time, into their Flutter app. I expected the implementation to be similar and definitely easier the second time around, but I found that to be false. The setup had some major twists and turns that I didn’t expect.

Although this was sometimes a frustrating challenge, I had fun figuring it out. Most companies running their apps with Xamarin will be moving their apps to a newer SDK like Flutter at some point. Flutter allows cross platform development for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, Google Fuchsia, and Web from a single codebase and shared languages. So this move is almost inevitable.

In this post, I’ll take you through a step-by-step tutorial of transferring from Xamarin to Flutter. By the end, GTM will be in your Flutter app!

Improving iOS/Android Numeric Keyboards With KeyboardActions

Flutter: Using Keyboard Actions To Improve Mobile User Experience

Ryan LaRue Articles, Design, Development Technologies & Tools, Flutter, Mobile, UI/UX 1 Comment

This post covers three options for customizing an iOS or Android keyboard in a Flutter mobile application, with a code walkthrough of using the Keyboard Actions package to easily add keyboard features that increase user efficiency.

Mobile app developers, have you ever noticed that the native iOS numeric keyboard does not include certain features that might be helpful? For example, a Done button? Or how about arrow buttons to traverse form fields? To jog your memory, here’s what the native iOS numeric keyboard looks like…