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Flutter Animations - A Smiley That Reacts to Your Every Move

By incorporating micro-interaction into your app, you can create an immersive experience that keeps users returning for more.

Micro-interaction can range from simple button clicks to complex animations that provide feedback and guide users through the app.

Today we will explore how to create a smiley that reacts to your every move using Flutter!

Imagine having a fun and interactive smiley that responds to your gestures, such as our mouse pointer movements.

Let’s get started and create a smiley that will put a smile on your face!

At the end of the article what we’ll have? A Nice Smiley 🙂 Like this:

Smiley Animation

What will you learn from this article?

  • Create a Smiley
  • Draw the face
  • Create an EyeBall
  • Updating Pointer position
  • Passing Mouse offset to EyeBall
  • Limit the Pointer movement.
  • Adding a Smile Curve.
  • Conclusion

The source code for the example project in this article is available on GitHub.

For step by step implementation, check out Canopas Blog.

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