In one of the latest Observable<Flutter> Craig Labenz and Manuela Sakura Rommel discuss an important topic for applications - accessibility.

📌 The video is available at the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7mWmOiLIkI

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VGV talked in their article about how they worked on the Ask Dash demo project.

📌 You can find the article at the link.
https://verygood.ventures/blog/how-we-built-it-ask-dash-a-generative-ai-flutter-application

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The New Year is coming, and for some people it may even have already arrived. Our project team wishes you good luck and success in the upcoming year, good health and a peaceful sky above your head.

Happy New Year! 🎉🎄🍾

Flutter apps built on Xcode 15 and targeting iOS 11 (the minimum currently supported) may crash runtime when interacting with Networking. You can fix this by bumping the version to 12, which anyway will be the minimum supported one in the near future.

📌 Read more at the link.
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/136060

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Several videos about game development have been recently released on Observable<Flutter> series straight away. They show:

👉 continuing development of zombie shooter;
👉 game loop optimization;
👉 flame_behaviors.

📌 The recordings are available at.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfREhtybQI8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww_Z6hpo3jc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dAJmGEQauQ

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A high level of test coverage, without additional metrics, does not tell us anything at all. However, even in this case, the higher the level, the higher the probability that the right case will be protected. So either way, working to increase coverage has a positive impact on quality.

📌 VGV's thoughts on test coverage in the article.
https://verygood.ventures/blog/road-to-100-test-coverage

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The Global Gamers Challenge is an 8-week challenge, sponsored by Flutter and Global Citizen, to design, build, and publish sustainable games using Flutter. The prizes include a free trip to NYC to hang out with the Flutter team and the VIP treatment at the next Global Citizen Festival. If you use the Google Wallet API you can earn extra bonuses.

📌 More details at the links. Good luck to all participants.
https://flutter.dev/global-gamers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CfGfs259gg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5mSsXdkKxg

#challenge

Meanwhile, using scrolling with two fingers to check is an app created with Flutter, will go into oblivion in one of the upcoming versions. 🫡

📌 Read more at the link.
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/11884

#news

DropdownMenu in the new episode of Widget of the Week.

📌 More details by the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giV9AbM2gd8

#widgetoftheweek

Craig Labenz continues to improve his zombie game as part of the Observable<Flutter> series.

📌 The video is available at the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ73P28dr14

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It looks like Fuchsia won't be the operating system for any device other than the Nest Hub, at least in the near future. Google is discontinuing work on running the full Chrome browser on Fuchsia.

📌 Read more in the article.
https://9to5google.com/2024/01/15/google-is-no-longer-bringing-the-full-chrome-browser-to-fuchsia/

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Craig Labenz talks about patterns in the new episode of DecodingFlutter.

📌 The video is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLvlqD4QS7Y

#decodingflutter

When discussing asynchronous programming, it's hard to ignore zones.

We have gathered some interesting materials for you that will help you better understand how zones work and how they can be beneficial in practice.

📌 Article on Medium

📌 Another article on Medium

📌 Article from the Dart team (archive)

📌 Video about EventLoop and zones

#advice
#ohmyteam
#ohmyfedukenukem

News for Dart-backend enthusiasts, a new version of Serverpod codenamed Cyberpunk was recently released.

📌 Details about the update in the article.
https://medium.com/serverpod/serverpod-1-2-cyberpunk-a-leap-forward-for-dart-on-the-backend-70e6657b0ffa

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Over the past year, the Flutter and Dart ecosystem has seriously grown in numbers, from 38k packages to 48k. Ander Dobo talks about these changes, as well as the new Flutter Favorite badge owners in the article.

📌 Read more at the link.
https://medium.com/flutter/progress-of-the-flutter-package-ecosystem-17cded9a0703

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Interesting article on the topic of reflection in Dart.

In it, you will find:

👉 Practical examples of usage
👉 Existing challenges
👉 Why we cannot fully use it now
👉 Performance comparison with other languages.

📌 Article

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#ohmyteam
#ohmyfedukenukem

We all make typos quite otfen 🙃, and when they don't interfere with search results, it has a positive impact on the user experience. Implementing fuzzy search can help with this. Daria Orlova shows how to do it in her article.

📌 Read more at the link.
https://dariadroid.substack.com/p/implementing-fuzzy-search-in-a-flutter

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I am super excited to share with you some of my professional updates - I’ve become a GDE for Flutter and Dart

The new part of Observable Flutter.

Anna Leushchenko will talk about various features and ways of using code generation. She will also demonstrate how to tackle the challenges that may arise.

In this video, the following packages will be discussed:

👉 freezed
👉 injectable
👉 retrofit
👉 json_serializable
👉 barrel_files

📌 Video

#video
#ohmyteam
#ohmyfedukenukem

The Flutter plugin for VSCode has recently received an update. This release's features are mostly general UX improvements, including more flexible customization of opening specific DevTools pages.

📌 A detailed list is available here.
https://dartcode.org/releases/v3-82/

#update

Continuation of the regular "Package of the Week" segment. This time, we introduce a package called "feedback".

It allows you to receive feedback from users in the form of a screenshot of your application, along with additional information such as text or drawings on the captured screenshot. Additionally, there is the possibility to customize all of this.

📌 Video

📌 Package

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#ohmyteam
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