A new article about typography continues 17 days of Flutter.

📌 You can read it here.
https://medium.com/flutter/playful-typography-with-flutter-f030385058b4

#event #17daysFlutter #article

This weekend, as part of 17 days of Flutter, assets for Doodle Dash were posted, and the challenge where these assets could be used was launched.

📌 A gallery of the results can be found here.
https://flutter.dev/events/doodle-dash-challenge

#event #17daysFlutter

Google accidentally (probably) reveals an upcoming flagship Nest speaker will launch with Fuchsia from the box.

📌 Details are available here.
https://9to5google.com/2023/01/10/google-fuchsia-launch-upcoming-device/

#article #fuchsia

Few hours left before Flutter Forward begins.

📌 The broadcast can be found by the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQYGKAe5W8

PS. while you are waiting you can control your Dash in Holobooth, have fun.
https://holobooth.flutter.dev/share/d1cfbeb7-bbaf-4b1b-862a-14b3963a7de3.mp4

PSS. and some Dash wallpaper
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Mp1J0cjSC9bd-dotcAJ9Jr4ogwdaaLO0

The new version of Flutter makes available for us a lot of new features. From the improvement of the Material 3 support to Impeller preview and using Platform Channels in any isolate.

📌 A detailed list of changes can be found in the announcement.
https://medium.com/flutter/whats-new-in-flutter-3-7-38cbea71133c

#announcement #article

With a fresh remember right after the Flutter Forward event, the Flutter team shared their vision regarding the nearest Flutter’s future and what they plan to work on and improve.

📌 More details by the link.
https://medium.com/flutter/whats-next-for-flutter-b94ce089f49c

#article

Sad info about how recently Google’s layoffs affected the Fuchsia team and Area 120. Yes, 16% is not low, but I don't think it means the end of the project.

📌 More details are at the link.
https://9to5google.com/2023/01/21/fuchsia-area-120-google-layoffs/

#news

The Flutter Dart Code plugin for VSCode recently received an update. This release has some pretty useful features:

👉 type hierarchy;
👉 call hierarchy.

📌 But that's not all, you can see a full changelog at the link.
https://dartcode.org/releases/v3-58/

#update

A lot of people, for sure, have tried the Holobooth show-case for the Flutter Forward event. And it is impressed Flutter's case from my view.

📌 How it was created, you can read in the article by the link.
https://medium.com/flutter/how-its-made-holobooth-6473f3d018dd

#article

I think many people remember the Wonderous app. Recently the authors announced a new version with support for foldable devices, and tablets including horizontal orientation.

📌 More details in the article by the link.
https://medium.com/flutter/adapting-wonderous-to-larger-device-formats-ac51e1c00bc0

#article

Tests are very useful for the overall quality of the product. But even if you write a lot of tests, you probably use a small number of asserts. That's because they easily cover the most popular cases. But in fact, there are many more asserts.

📌 The good cheat sheet can be found at the link.
https://medium.com/flutter-community/assertions-in-dart-and-flutter-tests-an-ultimate-cheat-sheet-f6d91510fe6b

#article #tests

Finally, has the Flutter plugin for IntelliJ been updated also. In the release:

👉 setup Flutter SDK for the project separately;
👉 option for automatically running tests before git commit.

📌 Changelog is available at the link.
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9212-flutter/versions/stable/285889

#update

Since Dart can be compiled for many platforms, it can be successfully used to create useful cross-platform CLI utilities.

📌 How to automate the building of such a cross-platform utility with Codemagic, read in the article by Dmitry Zhifarsky.
https://blog.codemagic.io/cross-compiling-dart-cli-applications-with-codemagic/

#article #codemagic #cicd

Flutter DevTools provides us a lot of useful tools. If you're already a sophisticated developer, you're probably very familiar with them and use them regularly.

📌 Those who are not yet so friendly with these tools, can get acquainted with the series of articles from Ashita Prasad.
https://medium.com/@fluttergems/mastering-dart-flutter-devtools-series-introduction-installation-part-1-of-8-4f703a8cfcc8

#article

Flutter can also be run on wearable devices like smartwatches. As an example, Renan's WearOS game.

📌 Read more in the tweet at the link.
https://twitter.com/renotanumber/status/1614990869685497857?s=67&t=IfKBJMgyLX5T_eAlkeDyqg

#ohmyflutter #omf #flutterdev #flutter #challenge

It is easy enough to embed Unity view into the Flutter application.

📌 How to do it, see the article by Mohammed Babelly.
https://blog.codemagic.io/how-to-embed-an-android-unity-game-in-a-flutter-app/

#article

For now, when various chats and messengers are unremovable parts of life, the feature of mentioning is not only familiar for the user but sometimes is a must-have.

📌 Package mentionable_text_field can help integrate this into your app.
https://pub.dev/packages/mentionable_text_field

#package

Application security is one of the crucial aspects of development. If the application is regularly and successfully attacked, no matter how good the user experience is, it will end up badly.

📌 Scott Hatfield's thoughts on approaches to securing a Flutter application in this article.
https://medium.com/@Toglefritz/three-advanced-ways-to-secure-a-flutter-app-92b38c626ce0

#article

The Flutter team is working actively on the new rendering backend named Impeller. You can already see quite positive results, such as those shown at Flutter Forward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7v-YRdHusM

📌 An introduction to what an Impeller is in the video by Chinmay Garde.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKrYWC_SDxQ

#video

In the new episode of Widget of the Week, the Flutter team talks about RawMagnifier.

📌 More details by the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBRkVCRP1Gw

#widgetoftheweek

A fresh quarterly survey from the Flutter team is up.

📌 Leave feedback on topics of interest to the team.
https://google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4TKhBYKWMAacbu6

#survey