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Articles on Flutter, AI & shipping real apps

Field notes from production work — the checklists, the failure modes and the details that only show up once an app has real users on it.

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Why Kinetic Captions Break in Bangla — and What It Takes to Ship Them
Animating captions word by word is trivial in English and quietly broken in Bangla and Hindi. Building iChat's reel studio — 11 caption styles, three scripts, rendered on the phone itself — the typography was the hard part, not the video.August 16, 20266 min read
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The Hardest Feature in an AI App Builder Is Saying 'Done'
Generating the code is the easy part. Building Code Horizon — an AI platform that takes a prompt to a live URL — the hard problem was knowing when a build is actually finished. A 13-state status machine, why we chose polling over streaming, and regenerating only what changed.August 15, 20269 min read
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Passing App Store Review on the First Try: UGC Moderation, EULA and Privacy Labels in Flutter
How we shipped OutSpot — a Flutter social app with location, UGC and in-app purchases — through App Store review on the first pass. The exact Guideline 1.2 checklist, EULA rules, privacy labels and purpose strings.August 15, 20267 min read
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Streaming AI Responses in Flutter: SSE, Cancellation and Multi-Model Fallback
How Jarvis — a Flutter AI assistant shipping for 3.5 years in 19 languages — streams OpenAI and DeepSeek responses token by token. SSE parsing in Dart, the UTF-8 bug that corrupts non-English text, cancellation, and falling back between models.August 15, 20268 min read