The Twin Sun Blog

We needed to utilize data from a legacy app without impacting the existing user experience. Therefore, we decided to connect a new API to the existing database.

We sometimes wish to add an extra layer of authorization between end users and the API. An nginx reverse proxy is an easy way to protect secrets in sensitive API calls.

Twin Sun has used Critic since the Fall of 2017, and we used it natively in Android and iOS. However, given our recent declaration that Flutter is our platform of choice, it was fitting to take the day and develop a Flutter package to make Critic integration easy for anyone using Flutter as their primary development tool.

Generally speaking, Flutter is designed to seriously decrease the time and effort it takes to develop a product on both major mobile platforms (Android and iOS). It makes maintaining a product much easier as well, as the majority (if not all) of the code is shared across both platforms.