Essential Flutter Tip: Avoid Memory Leaks by Disposing Controllers

Essential Flutter Tip: Avoid Memory Leaks by Disposing ControllersEssential Flutter Tip: Avoid Memory Leaks by Disposing Controllers

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Muhammad Sohail

• Mar 3

𝐅𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐩: Always dispose of your controllers. I see this mistake in 80% of codebases I inherit.

Memory leaks = app crashes = angry users.

What's the most common bug you see in Flutter apps?

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Muhammad Sohail

• Mar 2

Just added my AmanaPay project: 150+ Figma screens to Flutter in 4 weeks for a FinTech startup.

The challenge?

Tight deadline for investor demo.

The result?

Clean architecture that their dev team extended with zero rework.

What's the tightest deadline you've delivered on?

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Philippe Côté

• Mar 3

⚠️ Is "Doom Scrolling" or "Brain Rot" affecting you or your loved ones? Do you recognize the pattern? If so, read on. Aza Raskin, a technology engineer and designer at the interface company Humanized, invented infinite scrolling in 2006. Originally designed to create a smooth and uninterrupted browsing experience by eliminating the need to click to view new pages, Raskin later expressed regret about this invention, noting its role in creating an addictive, time-consuming form of "behavioral cocaine." ☀️ Today, we propose an update to this invention aimed at limiting the addiction mechanism. Please check out the "🥒 Pickle Scroll - Prototype" and tell me what you think! :) 🏃 The walkthrough is built-in into the experience itself. Enjoy! https://crust-music-60925552.figma.site

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Paul N.

• Mar 3

neat approach to the problemas visual paradigm there's also showing a regular scroll bar and growing the literal scrollbar handle till it fills the track. Too bad we'd never see platforms willing do something like this. Would be a killer OS productivity feature but that's...