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It amazes me how many mobile or web apps do not consider whether the user is using either a zoomed general display/UI or zoomed text. In this article, I consider several factors to take into account to ameliorate this situation.

Flutter web makes it straightforward to compose richly formatted paragraphs using the RichText widget, yet the results in the browser vary between platforms when considering hyperlinks. In this post I will present the limitations and some “best possible” solutions.

Flutter has plenty of collapsing panels, but none of which satisfied my desired transition type. This custom widget supports RichText and utilises common text truncation UI design in the unexpanded state. It animates with a vertical “reveal” transition, and transitions from truncated text to fully expanded text.

This article describes how to create a simple event model in Flutter, using Dart, that works similarly to the addEventListener() handler in Javascript. addEventListener is a simple one line call used on the web and in Javascript-based cross-platform frameworks like Titanium to add events to listen to.

Jony Ive and Sam Altman recently announced on the OpenAI site in May, 2025, a partnership between their respective companies to collaborate on new products that they say will start to come to market in late 2026.

Axway announced in 2002 that it will no longer support or develop Titanium, the cross-platform framework. This article considers other development options for individuals and companies that currently use Titanium, who may be looking for alternatives, with a focus on my personal experiences transitioning from Titanium to Flutter.

This is part 2 of a 2 part tutorial that shows several techniques of how to dynamically set the dimensions of a block of text and handle the delayed rendering of a composite view, in Axway Appcelerator Titanium.

This is part 1 of a 2 part tutorial that shows several techniques of how to dynamically set the dimensions of a block of text and handle the delayed rendering of a composite view, in Axway Appcelerator Titanium.

This tutorial shows how to render a tinted (or colourised) SVG icon file in Axway Appcelerator Titanium using 2 different techniques: a cross-platform method that renders a bitmap image from an SVG file and tints it and an Android only method that tints an SVG file by dynamically editing the file before rendering.

This tutorial shows how to play a sequence of images in Axway Appcelerator Titanium using 2 different techniques: one the standard SDK supported method using Ti.UI.ImageView and an alternative, and much better, custom controller method.