Android

The Google Pixel Watch Arrived at Tarn Aeluin

Beren Erchamion
July 3, 2023

The Google Pixel Watch arrived at Tarn Aeluin for my birthday this past June. A smart watch has not been high on my list of technology gadgets. I don’t have anything against smart watches, other than their large size and…

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Setting Flutter on Fire with Firebase

Beren Erchamion
October 6, 2021

I started working with Flutter over a year ago, but have yet to work with it in combination with a back-end as a service. Firebase is Google’s back-end as a service so it seems to make sense to see how…

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Round Two with Flutter – Is it a knockout?

Beren Erchamion
November 15, 2020

This is round two with Flutter. I looked at Flutter last year, but it seemed still a little early to put it to serious work. A lot has changed in the past 18 months. Has Flutter matured to the point…

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Developing with Flutter

Beren Erchamion
July 23, 2019

Developing with Flutter looks like an interesting alternative to Kotlin, Swift, and React. Last year I worked thru my React Nanodegree so I didn’t feel like changing up directions yet. Google also has a tendency of starting many things, but…

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Getting Around with React-Native Navigation V2

Beren Erchamion
June 5, 2018

Getting around with React-Navigation V2 is quite a bit different from V1. Well – ok its totally different. That’s a good thing – there were some pretty limiting factors with V1 of the package. Controlling the flow of your screens…

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Reacting to React-Native – Building Native Mobile Apps

Beren Erchamion
May 13, 2018

As a follow on to my post about building web applications with React.JS, this post will be about building native mobile apps with React-Native. I’m not a JavaScript guru so as with my previous post on React.JS, this post is…

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