Weather App

A Weather App Project

System Information

• OS: Windows
• RAM: 16GB
• OS Version: 11

Project Set-Up

Install Android Studio Latest Version [Android Studio Chipmunk | 2021.2.1 Patch 2]

https://developer.android.com/studio

Download Flutter

https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install

Clone Project

git clone https://github.com/randomlee101/flutter-weather-app.git

Open Project In Android Studio

• Open Android Studio
• File > Open
• Proceed To The Location of The Cloned Repository and Select The Root Folder

N.B: Install Dart and Flutter Plugins From Android Studio Market Place

Install All Packages Used For The Project

flutter pub get

Auto-generate Models Using Freezed

flutter pub run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs

State Management

Stateless widgets were employed across board to ensure a well-optimised application

States of children widgets were managed with Streams from the rxdart implementation and the get_it instance

Run Flutter Application

Connect a virtual or physical device to Android Studio then run the following command in the terminal

flutter run 

Challenges & Extra Notes

Per the requirement to display the current location, there was a roadblock fetching the full location description as it was not available with the returning data from the weather api.

However, the integration of Google Maps API will tackle this issue successfully

The geolocator package was installed in this project for setting real-time longitude and latitude of the user.

For simplicity, longitude (lon) and latitude (lat) were hard-coded in the weather_forecast_request.dart file as params

Due to the quality of the weather_icons image files, the image assets were wrapped in a ImageIcon widget and given a static color, yellow (I'm not too sure of that color decision) to give it more pop

Conclusion

Thank you for reviewing this project! Recommendations and feedbacks are welcome and can be directed to the author below.

Author

Daniel Folorunso | folorunsodaniel5@gmail.com