Experience of Developing a Mobile Application Using Flutter

Kuzmin, Nikita; Ignatiev, K.; Grafov, Denis

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-1465-4_56

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“…The tools and technologies used in development of the game included a flutter platform that provided the design for the game by combining artwork, graphics, sound, code, and engine. It is a single code-based platform app that can be used to build software for both Android and iOS devices [ 42 ]. Dart, a Google-developed object programming language, was also used to develop the game.…”

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Development and Validation of a Mobile Game for Culturally Sensitive Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Education in Tanzania: Mixed Methods Study

Malamsha¹,

Sauli²,

Luhanga³

2021

JMIR Serious Games

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Background Globally, 3 out of 20 children experience sexual abuse before the age of 18 years. Educating children about sexual abuse and prevention is an evidence-based strategy that is recommended for ending child sexual abuse. Digital games are increasingly being used to influence healthy behaviors in children and could be an efficient and friendly approach to educating children about sexual abuse prevention. However, little is known on the best way to develop a culturally sensitive game that targets children in Africa—where sexual education is still taboo—that would be engaging, effective, and acceptable to parents and caretakers. Objective This study aimed to develop a socioculturally appropriate, mobile-based game for educating young children (<5 years) and parents and caretakers in Tanzania on sexual abuse prevention. Methods HappyToto children’s game was co-designed with 111 parents and caretakers (females: n=58, 52.3%; male: n=53, 47.7%) of children below 18 years of age and 24 child experts in Tanzania through surveys and focus group discussions conducted from March 2020 to April 2020. From these, we derived an overview of topics, sociocultural practices, social environment, and game interface designs that should be considered when designing child sexual abuse prevention (CSAP) education interventions. We also conducted paper prototyping and storyboarding sessions for the game’s interface, storylines, and options. To validate the application’s prototype, 32 parents (females: n=18, 56%; males: n=14, 44%) of children aged 3-5 years and 5 children (females: n=2, 40%; males: n=3, 60%) of the same age group played the game for half an hour on average. The parents undertook a pre-post intervention assessment on confidence and ability to engage in CSAP education conversations, as well as exit surveys on the usability and sociocultural acceptability of the game, while children were quizzed on the topics covered and their enjoyment of the game. Results Parents and caregivers showed interest in the developed game during the conducted surveys, and each parent on average navigated through all the parts of the game. The confidence level of parents in talking about CSAP increased from an average of 3.56 (neutral) before using the game to 4.9 (confident) after using the game. The ability scores, calculated based on a range of topics included in CSAP education talks with children, also increased from 5.67 (out of 10) to 8.8 (out of 10) after the game was played. Both confidence level and ability scores were statistically significant (P<.001). All 5 children were interested in the game and enjoyed the game-provided activities. Conclusions The HappyToto game can thus be an effective technology-based intervention for improving the knowledge and skills of parents and children in CSAP education.

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Development and Validation of a Mobile Game for Culturally Sensitive Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Education in Tanzania: Mixed Methods Study

Malamsha¹,

Sauli²,

Luhanga³

2021

JMIR Serious Games

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“…One of the most frequent challenges I encountered in the undertaking of this project was that, when I would come across an issue or get stuck on something, I had a difficult time finding resources that could answer my questions. Naturally, I utilized standard resources such as Google search and the Flutter documentation in order to attempt to answer my questions, but those were only useful in a more general sense and did not exactly apply directly to what I was having difficulties with [9]. Specifically, the documentation was somewhat difficult to read, as it is all quite technical and more describes the functionalities of the language and offers few examples.…”

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The Problem Solver: A Mobile Platform to Mediate Teenager Family Relationship using Dart and Machine Learning

Guan¹,

Li²

2022

Artificial Intelligence and Applications

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Family conflicts between parents and their children are nothing new and are something experienced by many in such situations [1]. These conflicts can even be exacerbated by cultural differences that exist between the two parties, especially in cases where the parents and child were raised in different countries, cultures and/or generations [2]. This description illustrates my personal experiences of conflict with my parents, which is what inspired me to create this app: The Problem Solver app. The app differs from other methods that could be applied to resolve these conflicts in that it facilitates more direct communication between the two conflicting parties, which would hopefully result in a more rapid and successful conflict resolution [3]. Naturally, there were challenges I faced in the making of the app, but I was eventually able to work through these and build a working product. I will also explore some related works and research into this topic that were helpful in supporting the idea that cultural differences between differently raised generations can have an impact on familial relations [4]. Then, I give a general overview of the system of the app and finally delve into possible limitations of the app and further steps I could take in the development of the app.

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“…With its popularity on GitHub where more than 100 million open source projects are shared, it has an extremely high tendency among mobile software developers (GitHub, 2020). Data in an application can be checked by means of state management (Kuzmin, Ignatiev, & Grafov, 2020).…”

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Comparison of Flutter and React Native Platforms

GÜLCÜOĞLU¹,

Üstün²,

SEYHAN³

2021

Journal of Internet Applications and Management

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Mobile application development processes have become very important with the increasing use of mobile devices. Android and IOS operating systems, which are the most preferred mobile operating systems, have different development tools and software languages. Developing and testing and debugging the same application separately for each platform with development tools can lead to time loss and high maintenance costs. Cross-platform software that provides testing and development for different operating systems at the same time offer an alternative structure to these processes. Cross-platform software accelerates software processes and provides advantages by reducing application development costs. The comparison of Flutter and React Native, which are cross-platform development software will be presented in this study. Artan mobil cihaz kullanımı ile birlikte mobil uygulamaları geliştirme süreçleri de oldukça önemli hale gelmiştir. Mobil işletim sistemlerinden en çok tercih edilen Android ve IOS işletim sistemleri farklı geliştirme araçları ve yazılım dillerine sahiptir. Geliştirme araçları ile her platform için ayrı olarak, aynı uygulamayı geliştirmek ve test ederek yayınlamak zaman kaybına ve yüksek bakım maliyetlerine yol açabilmektedir. Farklı işletim sistemleri için aynı anda test ve geliştirme olanağı sağlayan çapraz yazılım platformları bu süreçlere alternatif yapı sunmaktadır. Çapraz yazılım platformları yazılım süreçlerini hızlandırırken, uygulama geliştirme maliyetlerini düşürerek avantajlar sağlamaktadır. Bu çalışmada çapraz yazılım geliştirme platformlarından olan Flutter ve React Native'in karşılaştırılması sunulacaktır.

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Experience of Developing a Mobile Application Using Flutter

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Development and Validation of a Mobile Game for Culturally Sensitive Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Education in Tanzania: Mixed Methods Study

Development and Validation of a Mobile Game for Culturally Sensitive Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Education in Tanzania: Mixed Methods Study

The Problem Solver: A Mobile Platform to Mediate Teenager Family Relationship using Dart and Machine Learning

Comparison of Flutter and React Native Platforms

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