Whilst building my tutorial in Cross-platform mobile app prototyping with Flutter and AWS Amplify, I encountered a few issues whilst deploying an API capable of storing user details. My requirements were fairly basic – store a few simple details about a user (name, location and favourite programming language), and query this information based on the logged in user of my app. In Amplify, you can very quickly build and deploy and API with a single command: The following may feel like I’m taking you on a wild goose chase, but I figure if I shared the journey and pain encountered along...
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Cross-platform mobile app prototyping with Flutter and AWS Amplify
I’m going to show you how you can use Flutter and AWS Amplify to quickly go from nothing to a working cross-platform mobile application with authentication and backend infrastructure. What would usually take a small dev team a week or so to setup can be achieved in a fraction of the time using this toolkit. If you follow along with this tutorial, it should take you no more than an hour… well… it took me several hours fighting with various issues, but hopefully I’ve documented them well enough so you shouldn’t hit them! Here’s the finished product. If you want...
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