UI Kit

A shared Flutter UI kit providing a consistent set of widgets, themes, constants, and utilities for the Flutter News App Toolkit.

This ui_kit package serves as a shared Flutter UI kit within the Flutter News App Full Source Code Toolkit. It provides a consistent set of widgets, themes, constants, and utilities designed to ensure a cohesive look and feel across the Flutter mobile app and web dashboard. By centralizing UI components and styling, this package aims to accelerate development and enhance maintainability.

⭐ Feature Showcase: Consistent & Dynamic User Interfaces

This package offers a comprehensive set of features for building modern Flutter UIs.

🧱 Core Functionality

🚀 State Widgets

• InitialStateWidget: A pre-built widget for displaying initial states, typically before user interaction or data loading.
• LoadingStateWidget: A widget for indicating progress during data fetching or other asynchronous operations.
• FailureStateWidget: A robust widget for showing user-friendly, localized error messages with an optional retry mechanism, leveraging HttpException extensions from core.

🎨 Dynamic Theming

• lightTheme & darkTheme Functions: Built with flex_color_scheme, these functions provide dynamic, customizable, and consistent light/dark themes across the app based on user settings (e.g., AppBaseTheme, AppAccentTheme, AppTextScaleFactor, AppFontWeight).
• AppSpacing Constants: Centralized constants for spacing to ensure consistent layouts and visual hierarchy.

🌐 Localization Helpers

• HttpException Extension: An extension on HttpException (from core) to provide user-friendly, localized error messages, simplifying error presentation.
• timeago Integration: Custom timeago messages for concise relative time formatting, enhancing readability of timestamps.

🛠️ Utilities

• DateFormatter: Helper class for common date and time formatting tasks, ensuring consistent date representations throughout the application.

💡 Your Advantage: This UI kit simplifies Flutter development by providing visual consistency, dynamic theming, and robust error presentation. It centralizes UI components, contributing to faster development and improved maintainability.

🔑 Licensing

This source code is licensed for commercial use and is provided for local evaluation. A Lifetime Commercial License is required for any production or public-facing application.

Please visit the main Flutter News App Full Source Code Toolkit organization page to review the full license terms and to purchase.