Very Good Ventures has released another update of their top companies using Flutter.

📌 You can check out the top by the link.
https://verygood.ventures/blog/top-companies-using-flutter

#update

There is another useful article about using custom shaders in Flutter.

📌 You can find it by the link.
https://blog.codemagic.io/shady-flutter/

#article

The new episode in the series Package of the Week shows Firebase Crashlytics.

📌 More details by the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wBpX0iFl5E

#packageoftheweek

The new Observable<Flutter> series is out, Craig Labenz connects the Postgres database using the Prisma ORM.

📌 The video can be found by the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Avx81nel_s

#observableflutter

One more device will use Fuchsia as its operating system. This device is Nest Hub 2nd Gen.

📌 Details in the article at the link.
https://9to5google.com/2023/05/02/nest-hub-2nd-gen-fuchsia-update/

#article #fuchsia

Lua is a small noscripting language that is widely used in games. And of course you can make it work with Dart.

📌 How to do it in the article at the link.
https://blog.codemagic.io/flutter-heart-lua/

#article

Sprite Stacking is a pretty simple approach to achieve a pseudo-3D effect with just two-dimensional sprites.

📌 How to get this effect with Flame, read in the article.
https://blog.codemagic.io/flaming-stacks/

#article

The article about using the Sprite Stacking technique has been continued. This part is about the Sashimi library.

📌 Details are at the link.
https://blog.codemagic.io/flaming-stacks-part2-sashimi/

#article

Only a few hours are left before the start of the main event in the year for the Google-technology.

📌 Don't miss Google I/O.
https://io.google/2023/program/

#event

I/O has as expected brought us quite a lot of new things. This is a new version of Dart with very desirable features, and a new Flutter version too.

📌 Read more in the announcement articles:
Dart
https://medium.com/dartlang/announcing-dart-3-53f065a10635

Flutter
https://medium.com/flutter/whats-new-in-flutter-3-10-b21db2c38c73

😉 Well, if you don't want to read it, you can always watch the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbMgjVB0XMI

#update

The new Observable<Flutter> series is out with an Erick Zanardo interview, who is a Tech Delivery Lead of I/O FLIP.

📌 The video can be found by the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMUDLU6sh2s

#observableflutter

Tim Sneath has recently introduced a set of packages providing runtime support for the Windows, COM and Win32 API for Dart. This set grew out of his small hobby project and has now grown to the point of being officially announced.

📌 Read more in the announcement.
https://timsneath.medium.com/introducing-dart-windows-4c0b55b063b0

#announcement #package

The Google Mobile Ads plugin for Flutter has received an update:

👉 Dart support for Native Ads;
👉 Updated application samples;
👉 WebView API for Ads.

📌 Details in the article.
https://medium.com/flutter/2023-google-mobile-ads-updates-for-flutter-16b603df9ec9

#update #package

Codemagic has received the option to build on M2, but for now, it is only available on request. To compare the performance and see if you need it right now, you can use the results of the benchmark by Codemagic.

📌 Details in the article.
https://blog.codemagic.io/flutter-m2-mini-comparison/

#article

I'm sure many people enjoyed the showcase shown at IO, with the game menu screen demonstrating custom shaders' work.

📌 Craig Labenz figures out the implementation in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQT8ABlgsq0

#video

Interesting effects can be achieved not only with shaders. Fedor Blagodyr has released a library that allows you to add quite interesting glitch effects.

📌 The library is available here.
https://pub.dev/packages/animated_glitch

#package

If you liked the FLIP game shown at the I/O, you will probably also be interested in how it was made.

📌 VGV team shows it in their article.
https://verygood.ventures/blog/how-its-made-i-o-flip

#ohmyflutter #omf #flutterdev #flutter #article

A new episode of Flutter Build Show is out. Craig Labenz shows how you can build your custom fragment shader.

📌 The video is available here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpcPZdfJbq8

#flutterbuildshow #video

As planned, Google has begun rolling out Fuchsia to 2nd-gen Nest Hub devices, but selectively for now. A wider launch should take place in the coming weeks.

📌 Read more in the article.
https://9to5google.com/2023/05/23/nest-hub-2nd-gen-fuchsia/

#article

Despite all the convenience of the declarative layout in Flutter, you can always go down to the painting level to add a wow effect.

📌 Using ColorFilter by Brian Kariuki in a small but nice-looking challenge on Flutter.
https://twitter.com/briankariuki/status/1660975521138712576?s=61&t=yIDib_1gXmWoypif6uEk-w

#challenge

I'm sure everyone knows and deeply appreciates Tim Sneath's contribution to the popularity of Dart and Flutter. He recently announced his leaving Google. So it looks like Dart and Flutter will have a new face. Tim Sneath, thank you so much for all you did ✌️

https://timsneath.medium.com/a-fond-farewell-to-flutter-and-dart-7a7a8c7c03e2

#announcement