FoodyShare: The Flutter Recipe sharing application.

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Firebase

All in all, version one of FoodyShare has taken me about three months to complete. In between those months, there have been productive, lazy, good, and bad days. Sometimes the code would run on the first try, other times it would take me a few hours to a day or two to resolve a bug. I can definitely say I've learned a lot about Flutter and programming after all the blood, toil, and sweat.  From the blog title, you can tell the app has been made with Flutter, the UI cross-platform framework from Google. In addition to that, the app utilizes Firebase for its backend, in terms of authentication, analytics, and database needs. Other libraries have also been extremely helpful in extending the application's features in terms of the user interfaces, animations, accessing native device features such as the camera, styling text, in-app payments, etc. On matters of plugins, I have made a series that can be accessed right here. With all that said, I would like to add that the code is definitely nowhere near perfection, though I have made steps to gather knowledge and follow best practices where possible.

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AppScreens

After the app ideation, the code, and a bit of testing here and there, it was finally time to get it out there, on the Google Play Store to be more specific, though the App Store version will be coming out soon enough. Doing that involved generating an app icon, app screenshots, a feature graphic, and some catchy text of course. For the app icon, I found Canva to suffice my requirements, though there are obviously many other options. For the app screenshots, I managed to find a nifty website that was intuitive, feature-packed, and definitely easy to use. For the feature graphic, I found this website to have many appealing templates to choose from, and generating it was also a piece of cake.

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