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.

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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.

#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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Fundamental knowledge really important thing in programming. No technology or programming language where algorithms and data structures are useless.

📌 Dart’s Set in this viewpoint in the article by Daria Orlova.

#article #fundamental #datastructures

There are a lot of tools to make simpler application testing. One more is available for Flutter now. I mean the patrol package. This is an open-source solution, but must be taken in account that it is not a stable version yet.

📌 More details in the announcement article.

#article #announcement

The Flutter team continues a series about the shortcut system in Flutter with the new video Widget of the Week. This video is about the Shortcuts widget.

📌 More details by the link.

#widgetoftheweek

With the next Fuchsia update bridge feature for the Nest Hub Max will be dropped. It’ll happen because Google is preparing its devices and apps for the new smart home standard ahead of a formal launch of the feature later this year.

📌 More details by the link.

#fuchsia #announce

With the next Flutter update, part of the deprecated API will be deleted. This is the reason to care about migration just now. The simplest way to do it is the dart fix command because almost all of these changes are supported.

📌 More details in the document by the link.

#news

After three years, the annual seventh Firebase Summit is coming back! The event will be in a hybrid format.

📌 Registration by the link.

#event

Error handling in Dart is not rocket science. But somehow were built a lot of useless and harmful approaches to this process. These approaches often make more damage than help for your project.

📌 Mikhail Matunin has parsed in detail all these mistakes in his new article.

#article