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A Complete Guide to a Scalable App in Flutter — Bonus 2: Animations in Flutter

Bringing Your App to Life: Implicit animation and hero transition are the key for quick engaging results

Giovanni Accetta
6 min readJan 12, 2025

Introduction

Animations play a pivotal role in creating engaging and intuitive user experiences. Flutter, with its robust animation framework, empowers developers to add life to their apps, making them feel fluid and dynamic. Whether it’s a subtle fade-in or an intricate choreography of multiple transitions, animations can transform the way users interact with your app.

This guide will take you through the essentials of animations in Flutter, focusing on implicit animations and Hero transitions for quick and engaging results. We’ll touch briefly on explicit animations to provide context, but the emphasis is on approaches that deliver immediate impact with minimal complexity.

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The rest of the guide

This article is the second bonus installment of my guide on building a scalable application in Flutter. In this series, I explore how to create robust, maintainable apps by leveraging a domain-driven design approach, implementing clean architecture principles, and applying the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern to structure…

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Giovanni Accetta
Giovanni Accetta

Written by Giovanni Accetta

Senior Mobile Developer 🧑‍💻 and freelancer 🚀 with 360 experience on mobile apps lifecycle 📱! Always happy to talk tech 💻, photography 📷 and travel ✈️!

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