The flutter team works not only on the direct improvement of the framework but also on the environment around Flutter that helps to use it easier and more effectively. This environment includes various toolkits. The game toolkit was presented some time ago. Now the time has come for the news toolkit that has recently been released.

📌 More information in the announcement article.

#announcement

Actually, the intrigue was not long, the picture on Flutter's Twitter was a warmup to the announcement of the Flutter Forward event.

📌 The event will be online on January 25, registration is at the link.

🐦 Well and the already traditional cartoon in the announcement can be found on Twitter.

#announcement

Google has brought a new desktop VPN client for premium subscribers of Google One. How is this news related to Flutter? The client is made with Flutter, proof.

📌 More details about this VPN by the link.

#news

The Flutter team has told about FutureBuilder in the new episode of the Widget of the Week series.

📌How it works and how to use it in the video by the link.

#widgetoftheweek

The next-generation Nest smart speaker possibly will support UWB (ultra-wideband) connection. UWB is like a Handoff for the Apple’s HomePod. The Fuchsia team takes a part in the development of these speakers.

📌More details by the link.

#article #fuchsia

CustomPaint is often used for painting something special that is out of the box. For this reason, it is a good choice for various show-cases, e.g. in the article about a custom stylish progress indicator by Alex Melnyk.

📌 More details at the link.

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This is often not easy to visualize a lot of data and make it meaningful. A new library “graphic” that can help with data charting has recently been released. It looks interesting from my view.

📌 Library is available by the link.

#package

PWA also known as Progressive Web App is one more available option for Flutter applications. In the case of using it we become independent from stores at least, it is a good benefit sometimes.

📌 How to make a PWA in Flutter and organize delivery with Codemagic in an article by Jahswill Essien.

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There are a lot of obvious ways to use Flutter, but not only they. Since Flutter is suitable for the Web, we can use it to build a Chrome extension.

📌 How to use Flutter this way in the article by Hrishikesh Pathak.

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Google has released an announcement of Google Summer of Code next year. They received and analyzed a lot of feedback from participators of previous GSoC and decided to adjust this event’s processes making them more flexible.

📌 More details by the link.

#announcement

Fastlane is one of the available options for managing ci/cd for Flutter apps.

📌 How to deploy Flutter apps with Fastlane to the Google play & App store, read in the article by Vedran Balagovic.

#article #cicd

I’ve found curious statistic about salaries, that was published by Djinni. They use the minimal desired monthly payment a candidate stated in the profile before being hired. Various filtering options are available: technology (including Flutter), English level, and professional experience.

📌 Statistic available by the link.

#statistic

The Flutter team has released a video with an explanation of the State managing concept. In my opinion, it was not the best example, but someone uses even Provider for managing the state 😄

📌 Video available by the link.

#video

Live coding by Craig Labenz has appeared on the official Flutter channel. The video is dedicated to sharing code between the client and server and working with the Postgres database.

📌 Video available by the link.

#video

Yesterday it was four years since the first stable version of Flutter was released. During this time Flutter has got the 3rd stable version, a lot of supported platforms and became really popular. So everyone who feels somehow involved in this wonderful framework happy anniversary 🎯💙🤘

The Dart Code plugin for VSCode has recently been updated. In the release:

👉 improved status bar information;
👉 new project default platforms;
👉 dart.showTodos setting now accepts an array of strings for setting up;
👉 cmd/ctrl+click is now supported on file:// and package: links.

📌 More details changelog by the link.

#update

The Flutter team has told about NavigationBar in the new episode of the Widget of the Week series.

📌 More details it in the video by the link.

#widgetoftheweek

The continuation of the live coding with Craig Labenz is coming soon today.

📌 Stream is available by the link.

#event #video #stream

A curious announcement was made by the Dart team. Apparently already next year we will get the third version of Dart.

📌 More details it in the announcement by the link.

#announcement

The Flutter team has published the result of the Q3 2022 survey. There were themes like:

👉 Firebase SDK;
👉 quick fix and refactor;
👉 target platforms;
👉 desktop support.

📌 Can find the survey result by the link.

#survey

At Google I/O 2021, Google announced the next evolution of Material Design - Material You (technical name Material 3). The Flutter team has made a big work to add easy support for this guideline in Flutter apps.

📌 How to migrate your app to M3 in the article by Taha Tesser.

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