Flutter Casual Games Toolkit released recently is a comfortable way to create your own little game with Flutter. Games like any other applications of course must be as reliable as possible and don’t have errors. No way to be full error-free, maybe only for applications that no one uses it is possible, but to make the app stable we have to analyze every time which errors happen and fix important ones. Firebase Crashlytics is a good one for it.

📌 This is an article with the step-by-step instruction from Rich Hall about how to use Firebase Crashlytics with the Flutter Casual Games Toolkit.

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We all have seen how widgets look in the Flutter DevTools. There is a special mixin Diagnosticable with the debugFillProperties method that makes it able.

📌 How it works and how to add your own property to show in the Flutter DevTools you can find in the new episode of the Decoding Flutter.

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Sometimes we think that our app’s UI is intuitive, but it can be dramatically not. One way to fix this is a small intro that tells about the main parts and their responsibility. Showcaseview package can help with the implementation of this.

📌 Library available by the link.

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A few news regarding Elementary.

New version available:

👉 stacktrace in ErrorHandler supported;
👉 widget model and model are shown in the devtools;

📌 Library available by the link.

Elementary included in Top 30 Flutter State by Mike Rydstrom.

📌 Tweet by the link.

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Various gradients are often used to make UI elegant. There are a few gradients in Flutter from the box. One of them is Linear.

📌 More details in the Widget of the Week video.

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Changing notation is not a rare case when we create utils. Look at the Dart, for example, files and directories are named in the snake_case, classes’ names in the PascalCase. Recase library can help with the easy transformation between them.

📌 Library available by the link.

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There is a next part of the article about creating and releasing an app with Flutter, by Mikhail Alfa. The network layer, localization, and local search are in this session.

📌 The article by the link.

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The Flutter team showed flutter_rating_bar in the last Package of the Week. This package provides the widget with various customizations to setting a rating.

📌 More details in the video.

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Flutter Q3 User Survey is available right now. You can help to the Flutter team by given your answers to make Flutter better.

📌 Can find survey by the link.

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Flutter Flame is a good tool for creating a small casual game. But how does it deal with more serious tasks?

📌 Detailed investigation of this question in the article (Russian language) by ASGAlex.

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A good understanding of how layout building works is an important thing for confident work with UI. In the last Decoding Flutter, IntrinsicHeight and IntrinsicWidth were explained. This is an important thing to understand because they can be really expensive for calculation.

📌 More details are in the Decoding Flutter video.

#decodingflutter

Even detailed UI that changes states momentary looks wooden. Animations fix it! But the creation of animations takes time, and often we don’t have enough time. Flutter has a good decision for this situation - implicit animation, with minimum spending time and maximum profit. Do you want some magic tricks? Mark as animation, boom, tada - it has disappeared 🤡

📌 Watch the new episode of The Boring Flutter Development Show about implicit animations by the link.

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My ex-colleague Vladimir Deev has released an article about the Redux + Elementary duo. This is an interesting combination that showed itself as reliable and comfortable to use on a really successful project.

📌 How to use it, read in the article (rus) by the link.

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When we talk about concurrency in Dart, often only asynchronous is remembered. How to use Future and Streams, but it is only the tip of the iceberg. If to go deeper we would find the Isolate mechanism. This is the core that allows working all concurrency in Dart. A perfect article telling about it was added to the documentation with one of the last updates.

📌Find the article by the link.

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A few news regarding Fuchsia at the same time.

👉 Google completes Fuchsia rollout for Nest Hub Max, now available for all users.
👉 Google wants to make Fuchsia devices manageable with Android’s ADB tool.

📌Find this news by links.

UPD: interview with Fuchsia ex-director Chris McKillop has been released.

#news #fuchsia

A new version of Flutter has been released. This time minor version has rapidly changed for 3, and now we have a Flutter 3.3. In this release:

👉 global selection;
👉 trackpad input and Scribble;
👉 continue of the Material Design 3 migration;
👉 raster cache improvements.

📌All this and much more in the announcement by the link.

#update #announcement

The Flutter Vikings conference is going right now. You can find the event agenda by the link.

📌Speeches are available in the playlist.

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A new version of Dart as usually has been released together with Flutter. In this version:

👉 Objective-C & Swift interop;
👉 improved type inference;
👉 async performance improvements;
👉 funding tag support for pubdev;
👉 NullSafety roadmap update.

📌All this and much more in the announcement by the link.

#update #announcement

The last video from the Widget of the Week series tells about TextStyle.

📌 More details by the link.

#widgetoftheweek

Mikhail Matiunin (aka Fox) started a series of solving algorithmic problems when LeetCode had added Dart support.

📌 If you also like algorithmic brain cracking, you can find this series by hashtags #leetcode and #plugfox on LinkedIn.

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There is a new video on the official Flutter channel. It contains a small interview with team released the Wonderous application. Wonderous is a showcase app for the Flutter.

📌 You can find codebase in this repo.

📌 Video available by the link.

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