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6. Weather App UI ⛅

Professional Flutter UI that displays mock weather data.

Credits: App design idea (Dribbble) created by Muhammad Noufal. All credits to Muhammad!

Screenshot

Structure

• The app has been divided into steps.
• Each step has starter and solution code.
• You can access each code set using the respective branches.
• Also, each step has detailed TODOs along with explanations on why we're doing each TODO.

How to follow this repo?

• Complete the given TODOs in order.
• Compare the starter and solution branches for each step. You can do this on GitHub or in Android Studio/VS Code.

How to compare branches on GitHub

How to compare branches on Android Studio

How to compare branches on Android Studio

Steps

1. Setting up AppBar

2. Adding city and country name

3. Adding weather information to the weather card

4. Adding current temperature and additional weather parameters

5. Formatting the additional weather parameters

6. Formatting the hourly forecase bar

7. Adding hourly weather cards

8. Modify UI for large screens

Skills Learned

• Advanced UI Design and Implementation
• Container decoration
  • Border
  • BorderRadius
  • BoxShadow
  • Background color
• Text
  • Custom fonts
  • fontSize
  • fontWeight
  • color
• AppBar
  • elevation
  • color
  • leading
  • actions
• Modify UI for large screens
• Flutter Web