Why Converter NOW

A few years ago I noticed that most of the unit converters on the digital stores were ugly, not immediately usable, with ads and tracking software. I thought it would be a good idea to develop Converter NOW in order to solve all these problems!

🚀 It is made to be easy, fast and usable: just start typing and immediately you have the real-time conversion with all the other units of measurement!

🖌️ It is customizable: the units can be reorganized according to your priorities and your use case

🔢 It integrates a Calculator that let you do the calculations in every page

💰 Currency conversions are updated daily

⚫⚪ Choose your favourite theme: dark or white theme

📱🖥️ Full Smartphone, Tablet and Web app support

💯 It is free, no ads, no analytics, no permissions (just Internet to update currency conversions). And first of all it is open source!

Installation

You can find the compiled app in GitHub releases or in all of the following app stores:

Android

Linux

Windows

Web

You can reach the PWA here.

Build from source code

First you need to install flutter and all the tooling for your target platform (e.g. Android Studio for Android, etc.). Then you have to activate a tool that is used to manage this repo, so you have to type dart pub global activate melos to install it and melos bootstrap in the root of the project in order to get all the dependencies and generate the translations code. Then follow the instructions for the platform you target.

Android

On Android you should first disable the signing option in android/app/build.gradle (just comment that line). Then you can type flutter build apk --split-per-abi to compile the code. You can find the output in build/app/outputs/apk/release folder.

Linux

Type flutter build linux to build the Linux app. You can find the output in build/linux/x64/release/bundle.

Windows

Type flutter build windows to build the Windows app. You can find the output in build/windows/runner/Release.

Web

Type flutter build web to build the Web app. You can find the output in build/web.

iOS and MacOS

The app is not tested against iOS and MacOS, but you should be able to compile it even for these platforms. You first need to generate the platform specific code and then compile them.