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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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

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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/

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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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Craig Labenz and Kevin Moore are continuing the topic of code generation today in Observable<Flutter>.

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

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A new version of Flutter 3.19 has been released. It brings a Dart SDK for Gemini, Impeller improvements, and much more.

📌 All details in the announcement article.
https://medium.com/flutter/whats-new-in-flutter-3-19-58b1aae242d2

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Another part of Observable Flutter.

This release is dedicated to how you can integrate Google Gemini into your application using the newly minted package.

📌 Video

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As always a new version of Flutter is accompanied by a new version of Dart, in which:

👉 extension types;
👉 js-interop;
👉 experimental WebAssembly.

📌 More details in the announcement.
https://medium.com/dartlang/dart-3-3-325bf2bf6c13

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Flutter’s roadmap for this year was released with the latest release of Flutter.

📌 More details in the announcement.
https://medium.com/flutter/sharing-flutters-2024-roadmap-22debd2bbd22

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Not surprising news for 2024 at all, but 3.3 Flutter and 3.19 Dart will be the last versions with official support for Windows 7 and 8.

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A few days ago WS library for working with WebSocket went into stable release. Congratulations to @PlugFox - good job. In this version, interceptors and sending messages after connection/reconnection were added to the already various functionality.

📌 The library is available at the link.
https://pub.dev/packages/ws

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If you use AssetManifest.json to get available assets, you need to consider an upcoming breaking change. This file will no longer be generated in future versions (with the fourth stable release after 3.19 or one year after the release of 3.19, whichever comes last), use the AssetManifest API instead.

📌 Read more at the link.
https://docs.flutter.dev/release/breaking-changes/asset-manifest-dot-json

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For those interested in domain-driven design, this presentation will be useful.

In it, the speaker provides an overview of the approach and showcases examples based on personal application experience.

Certainly, the presentation doesn't cover the full depth of DDD, but it can serve as a good starting point.

📌 Video

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Craig Labenz argues about UI adaptability on the example of Google Earth.

📌 The article can be found here.
https://medium.com/flutter/extreme-ui-adaptability-in-flutter-how-google-earth-supports-every-use-case-on-earth-6db4661e7a17

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There's not so much time left while the quarterly survey from the Flutter team is active.

📌 Share feedback on topics that are interesting to the team by the link.
https://google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6gplhwAySeRz7Gm

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The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program focuses on bringing student developers from around the world into open-source software development. This year the Dart team again provides mentors and projects for this program.

📌 For anyone interested, details are in the announcement.
https://medium.com/dartlang/dart-in-google-summer-of-code-2024-8ca45fb6dc4e

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In the latest episode of the Flutter Build Show Craig Labenz talks about drag and drop.

📌 The video is available here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6BPtrU0M7I

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