tonGues articles

Write-ups about building tonGues — a language-exchange messenger with chat, voice and video calls, media messages, and on-the-fly translation and transcription. Flutter on the client, FastAPI + PostgreSQL on the server.

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• Replacing a Flutter app bar with a FAB action stack

  How we rebuilt the tonGues notification center without a toolbar — a floating action button stack, a zero-height AppBar, and unique hero tags.

• Small polish, better feel — a smoother connection status and a clear way out of a call

  Two small UI changes in tonGues today — the friends connection status now fades in instead of popping, and the call end card gained an explicit Back button.

• What is tonGues? A language-exchange messenger with live translation

  tonGues is a language-exchange messenger — chat, voice and video calls, and on-the-fly translation and transcription, built with Flutter and FastAPI.

• We're now publishing every tonGues change on dev.to

  A short note about our new habit — writing up every change we ship in tonGues, in public.