Flutter - Playing local, network and youtube videos with video player plugin.

If you're creating an application that supports videos feature then you have to use a video player. The Flutter team have created a Video Player widget to display a video in Flutter application.

The Video Player widget can play multiple types of videos that may be stored in the mobile, as an asset, and from the internet. This plugin allows flutter to interface with the platform's native video players. In iOS, the video player widget uses AVPlayer to handle playback and it does not work on iOS simulators. So, you have to test videos on real iOS devices. In Android, the video player widget uses ExoPlayer to play a video. 

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Flutter - Draw custom shaps with clip path.

As we know, Flutter is a Mobile UI framework by Google which allows developers to create beautiful apps for both iOS and Android with a single codebase. 

Apart from inbuilt widgets that is Flutter framework provides us, we can draw a custom shape that is called Clipping. In a Flutter application, we use clipping to create awesome looking, custom user interfaces with special effects. A widget that clips its child using a path and calling a callback on a delegate whenever the widget is to be painted. The callback returns a path and the widget prevents the child from painting outside the path.

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