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Enhance your mobile apps with Flutter BoxShadow

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Ivy Walobwa
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Google's Material Design guidelines emphasize the use of light and shadows to create depth and indicate movement in app interfaces, a principle that is effectively implemented in Flutter apps using the BoxShadow class. This tutorial guides developers through the process of applying shadows to app elements, highlighting properties such as color, spread radius, blur radius, blur style, and offset to create various effects. The BoxShadow class, utilized within a BoxDecoration widget, allows customization of shadows to indicate elevation and interaction, with special cases including shadows on one side or creating inner shadow effects. The tutorial also includes practical examples, demonstrating how to modify these properties to achieve desired visual outcomes, with all code examples available on GitHub for further exploration and implementation.