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Free to use tools for maintaining your OpenSource projects

In this post, we will talk about how to effectively maintain your OpenSource projects using tools/softwares which are free to use for OpenSource and the public repositories. Over time, when the project grows you, need to set up a few tools which can help you maintain the project and automate the trivial tasks. 1. Setup CI/CD Having an OpenSource project to which you might b e  contributing just as a hobby, but doesn’t mean you don’t need to set up CI/CD pipeline. You don’t need to expend a single dime on servers or need to use cloud services to run your CI/CD. There are a lot of CI/CD tools available free for open source projects and public repositories. One such tool is  Travis CI  which you can use for setting up CI/CD for your project. Travis CI Travis CI You can run test cases and deploy code to your servers. Travis CI works great and easy to set up the CI/CD pipeline. 2. Code Analysis and Code Quality Maintaining code quality as the project grows can be very hard an...

Flutter: How to take Screenshot of the screen or widget and save as image

Introduction: In this post, we will discuss how to take a screenshot of the widget and save it as an image. Let’s take a use case where we need this functionality. Here is an app to read quotes in a beautiful background. quote app class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget { MyHomePage({Key key}) : super(key: key); @override _MyHomePageState createState() => _MyHomePageState(); } class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> { List<Quote> _quotes = [ Quote( content: "Friendship is Love without his wings!", author: "Lord Byron", image: 'quote-1.jpeg') ]; String _currentImage = 'assets/img/image1.jpeg'; initState() { super.initState(); } @override Widget build(BuildContext context) { return Scaffold( body: Stack( children: [ Container( decoration: BoxDecoration( image: DecorationImage( image: AssetImage('assets/img/placehol...