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sky24n/flutter_wanandroid

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TLDR

A Flutter demo app for the WanAndroid developer community that shows how to build a polished mobile app using the BLoC pattern, Dio networking, and internationalization, last updated 2020.

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    What it does
      Read dev articles
      Browse WanAndroid site
      Demo Flutter patterns
    Architecture
      BLoC state management
      RxDart streams
      Dio network layer
    Features
      Theme switching
      Chinese and English
      Swipe to exit
    For developers
      Screen adaptation
      Internationalization
      Reusable packages
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Study how to structure a Flutter app using the BLoC pattern with real API calls and multiple screens

USE CASE 2

See a working example of a Dio HTTP network layer with model parsing in a Flutter project

USE CASE 3

Learn how to add multi-language support and responsive screen sizing to a Flutter mobile app

Tech stack

FlutterDartRxDartDio

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Targets Flutter stable v1.17.0 from 2020, may require pinning your Flutter SDK version to build without errors.

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In plain English

flutter_wanandroid is a mobile application built with Flutter for the WanAndroid platform, a Chinese Android developer community website. The app runs on both Android and iOS and was built to demonstrate Flutter development practices using real-world features. The last recorded update was in 2020, targeting Flutter stable v1.17.0. The application includes a splash screen, onboarding flow, article lists, and an embedded web view for reading content from the WanAndroid site. It supports theme switching and multi-language display (Chinese and English). List and web views both include a quick-scroll-to-top button, and the app supports a swipe-to-exit gesture. On the architecture side, this project uses the BLoC pattern for state management, which separates business logic from the user interface by passing data through streams. It also uses RxDart, a library that extends those streams with additional operators. The README provides code examples showing how the project structures its network layer using the Dio HTTP client, how API requests are defined, and how response data is parsed into model objects. The repository also documents utility libraries used internally for screen size adaptation across different device dimensions, and for internationalization support to display localized strings. These were extracted into separate packages the author made available for other Flutter projects to reuse. If you are a Flutter developer looking at this for reference, the main value is in seeing how the BLoC pattern, network layer, internationalization, and screen adaptation fit together in a structured project. If you are a non-technical reader, this is a client app for reading Android development articles and tutorials, built as a showcase of Flutter's ability to produce polished mobile apps.

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Prompt 1
Show me the BLoC pattern used in sky24n/flutter_wanandroid for making API calls, how are streams set up between the data layer and UI?
Prompt 2
How does flutter_wanandroid structure its Dio network layer for making HTTP requests and parsing JSON responses into model objects?
Prompt 3
Walk me through adding a new article list screen to flutter_wanandroid using the existing BLoC and network patterns
Prompt 4
How is internationalization set up in flutter_wanandroid to switch between Chinese and English at runtime?
Prompt 5
What version of Flutter does flutter_wanandroid target and how do I set up my environment to build it?
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