Complete, production-ready source code for a feature-rich Flutter news app mobile client.
This repository contains the complete, production-ready source code for a feature-rich Flutter news app mobile client. It gives you everything you need to launch your own news app on the App Store and Google Play, right out of the box. It is a key component of the Flutter News App Full Source Code Toolkit, an ecosystem that also includes a Dart Frog backend API and a web-based content management dashboard.
This toolkit is engineered with production-ready features that provide immediate value. Each component is designed to solve common, complex challenges in mobile app development, saving you months of work.
Explore the high-level domains below to see how.
📰 Content Discovery & User Engagement
A beautiful, infinitely scrolling feed serves as the core of the user experience. It's not just a list; it's an intelligent content delivery system.
- Instantaneous Content Switching: An intelligent, session-based cache pre-fetches and holds data, eliminating loading spinners when users switch between their preferred content views.
- Personalized Viewing: Users control their experience with settings for information density and image presentation, adapting the feed to their reading style.
- Smart In-Feed Prompts: The feed dynamically injects context-aware items like calls-to-action and content suggestions, driven by configurable rules to avoid user fatigue.
Your Advantage: You get a world-class, production-quality feed system out of the box. Skip the complex UI, state management, and performance optimization work.
Give users the tools to find exactly what they're looking for with a multi-faceted discovery system.
- Customizable Filter Bar: A persistent, one-tap filter bar provides instant access to pre-defined and user-created content streams.
- Advanced Content Curation: A dedicated UI allows users to construct and save highly specific news feeds by combining various content categories, publishers, and regions of interest.
- Dedicated Discovery Hub: Users can browse publishers by category in horizontally scrolling carousels, apply regional filters, and perform targeted searches.
Your Advantage: Deliver powerful content discovery tools that keep users engaged, increase session duration, and encourage return visits.
👤 User Identity & Personalization
A complete and secure user authentication system is built-in, covering the entire user lifecycle.
- Flexible Sign-In Options: Includes modern passwordless and anonymous sign-in flows to reduce friction for new users.
- Seamless Account Linking: A robust process allows anonymous users to create a permanent account while transparently migrating all their data—including preferences, bookmarked headlines, and saved content views.
Your Advantage: The complex logic for security, user management, and data migration is already solved, providing a seamless and secure user journey from the start.
Empower users to tailor the app to their exact preferences, creating a sticky and personal experience.
- Content Subscriptions: Users can personalize their feed by following specific topics, news organizations, or areas of interest.
- Appearance Control: A comprehensive settings panel allows configuration of the theme (Light/Dark/System), accent colors, and font styles.
- Personalized Collections: Users can bookmark headlines for later reading and fully manage their custom-built news feeds.
Your Advantage: Built-in personalization features that are proven to drive user retention are included and fully functional from day one.
⚙️ Monetization & Remote Management
Start generating revenue immediately with a sophisticated ad system designed for performance and flexibility.
- Multi-Provider Architecture: Built on an abstraction that supports any ad network. It ships with production-ready providers for Google AdMob and a custom Local Ad Server, plus a Demo provider for easy testing.
- Theme-Aware Native Ads: Ads automatically adapt to the user's theme settings, making them feel like a natural part of the UI instead of an intrusion.
- Performance Optimized: An intelligent caching layer for inline and interstitial ads ensures a smooth, jank-free scrolling experience in feeds and during navigation.
Your Advantage: Deploy a highly extensible, revenue-ready ad system that respects the user experience and scales with your business needs, all without being locked into a single provider.
Manage your app's behavior and operational state in real-time without needing to ship an app update.
- Centralized Configuration: Remotely control ad frequency, placement rules, user permission limits, and other critical parameters from the backend.
- Critical State Management: Includes built-in, production-ready flows for essential "kill switch" scenarios. Instantly activate a full-screen maintenance page or enforce a mandatory update with a non-dismissible screen that directs users to the app store.
Your Advantage: Gain the agility to respond to operational needs in real-time. Deploy with the confidence that you can manage the entire app lifecycle, from feature flags to critical updates, directly from your server.
🏗️ Architecture & Developer Experience
Built on a modern, multi-layered architecture that prioritizes clarity, testability, and separation of concerns.
- Predictable State Management: Leverages the BLoC pattern with advanced concurrency transformers to handle complex UI events gracefully.
- Robust Startup Process: A "gatekeeper" initialization sequence ensures all critical dependencies (Remote Config, User Settings) are loaded and validated before the main UI is built, eliminating a whole class of lifecycle bugs.
- Type-Safe Declarative Routing: Navigation is managed by GoRouter using named routes for a well-structured and maintainable system.
Your Advantage: The codebase is engineered to be easy to understand, maintain, and extend. It provides a solid, professional foundation for future development.
Utilizes compile-time variables (--dart-define) to seamlessly switch between production, development, and demo environments.
- Error-Proof Configuration: This approach ensures environment-specific settings like API endpoints are set at build time, preventing accidental release of development configurations.
Your Advantage: A robust, professional environment setup that streamlines the development-to-production pipeline and prevents common configuration mistakes.
The application is fully internationalized and includes working English and Arabic localizations out of the box.
- Simple Extensibility: Adding new languages is a straightforward process using standard
.arbfiles.
Your Advantage: The architecture is designed for a global audience, allowing you to easily adapt the application and expand into new markets.
This Flutter News App Mobile Client package is an integral part of the Flutter News App Full Source Code Toolkit. For comprehensive details regarding licensing, including trial and commercial options for the entire toolkit, please refer to the main toolkit organization page.
For a complete guide on setting up your local environment, running the mobile client, and understanding the configuration, please see the Local Setup Guide in our official documentation.
Our documentation provides a detailed, step-by-step walkthrough to get you up and running smoothly.