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.

#article #fluttergamedev #flame

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.

#boringshow #animation

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.

#elementary

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.

#article #documentation

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.

#event

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.

#news

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.

#news

To continue the Wonderous app topic. While the gskinner team was creating it, they did a library with a big set of various animations called flutter_animate.

📌 More details about this package are in the article by the link.

#article

At the beginning of the month, the new version of the Flutter IntelliJ Plugin has been released. Nothing special new features in this update, but internal fixes and improvements, including new platform versions support e.g AS Electric Eel.

📌 More details by the link.

#update

Flutter Dart Code for VSCode also has an update this month. In this release:

👉 directory rename updates imports;
👉 UX improvements of commands “Wrap with widget” and “Wrap with …”;
👉 new debug adapters for Dart and Flutter.

📌 More details changelog by the link.

#update

The good news for people who use Codemagic or maybe only going to start using, it should be cheaper now.

👉 Pay-as-you-go plan capped by the Professional plan cost, you will never pay more than $299/month (Professional plan cost). For this reason, the Professional plan has been removed;
👉 team seats have been removed;
👉 both the Free plan and the Pay-as-you-go plan use M1 machines by default, and the cost of the M1 minute is twice less.

📌 More details, and how Codemagic reached this in the article by the link.

#news

ScrollController is used to control scrolling in Flutter. This happens anyway if you pass the controller explicitly or not. More details about how it works and what is the PrimaryScrollController, Kate Lovett tells in the fresh episode of the Decoding Flutter.

#decodingflutter

Not a rare situation when we need to make a link between objects on the overlay and the main layer. Looks not hard - count coordinates, set a place, profit. But the issue is much more interesting when the object becomes dynamic: move, transform, etc. In this case, we need to synchronize positions.

📌How to do it in the article by Mikhail Matunin.

#article

Keyboard shortcuts are not a regular thing for mobile but for web and desktop applications it is really important. In the new Widget of the Week, the Flutter team has begun the first part of the series about this system in Flutter: Focus, Shortcuts, and Actions. This episode covers the Focus widget.

📌 More details in the video.

#widgetoftheweek

An interesting survey result from the Flutter team has been published. This is information regarding which IDE Flutter developers prefer.

📌 Details by the link.

#news #survey

The text version for one of the last Flutter Vikings’ speeches has appeared.

📌 Deep dive to complex animation by Roaa is now available by the link.

#article