Getting Started With the Matrix API

After some exploration of Android development (specifically jetpack compose), I finally took a proper swing at Flutter and while jetpack compose seems like a powerful tool and I would love to get to know kotlin better, the cross-platform development and cross-platform design was just too alluring.

I figured I would start with a login screen as it would get me interacting with state and making an API call. I found some widget online that gave me most of the UI, leaving me to figure out constructing the login API request from the form inputs.

At first I was wary of using an SDK that was not created by the Matrix team but the Famedly folks are actively contributing to it. So the first thing was adding the SDK as a dependency.

It is also important for me to start getting to know the matrix API in general so I found their API reference.