I worked on two mobile apps using Google’s Flutter Framework
Pen & Party
Pen & Party is a group finder app for people who like board games and pen & paper games. It's main purpose is to find new people with similar interests, and manage them. It is the result of group project for the masters course 'Mobile App Development' together with Lisa Hesselbarth, Rachel Ringe and Dominik Sauer.
Roll Notes
Roll Notes a digital notebook app that allows you to save and review information about analog photos, that digital cameras save automatically. Create an album that for a roll of film and save camera data like aperture, shutter speed and focal length, as well as date, time, and location. This project grew out of my own photography needs.
Other things I learned using Flutter
Non-relational Databases
With Flutter, I first used non-relational databases like Firebase in ‘Pen & Party’ and Hive for the ‘Roll Notes’ app, as it does not have online functionality. With Firebase, we discovered the power of real-time data synchronization, authentication, cloud storage.
Hive’s simplicity worked really well for local data persistence, offering a easy way for saving user data and preferences.
UI Design
Even though UI design in ‘Pen & Party’ was not the focus of my work, I had an interest in it and could contribute ideas to the final product. The fact that I was able to implement designs in Flutter motivated me even more to develop my own app in which I could unfold my concepts.
When creating the ‘Roll Notes’ app, designing and implementing a UI from scratch has shown me the difficulties that can arise and forced me to develop solutions for them.
App Deployment
Deploying an app comes with intricacies like generating signed builds, setting up developer accounts and managing releases. Publishing ‘Roll Notes’ made me navigate through those obstacles, while teaching me, how to make distribution smooth and efficient.