One more technical change that will happen in future releases.

Flutter will no longer generate a synthetic package:flutter_gen or modify the application's package_config.json. Instead, the files will be generated in the project directly.

This will happen presumably in the N+1 stable release (the first stable release of 2025).

📌 More details and migration guide at the link.
https://docs.flutter.dev/release/breaking-changes/flutter-generate-i10n-source

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video_player in the new episode of Package of the Week.

📌 More details by the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxw6FaA0j3I

#packagetoftheweek

Craig Labenz and Lucas Josefiak discuss using Widgetbook in the new episode of Observable<Flutter>.

📌 The series can be found here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzchQgc3dLU

#video

The Canvas class provides various low-level drawing methods that allow for significant performance gains.

One such method is drawAtlas, which enables rendering an image in numerous variations with different colors and transformations.

For even more optimizations, consider using drawRawAtlas.

📌 Example

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A few helpful rules in DCM's Rules of the Week:

👉 prefer-enums-by-name
👉 avoid-unused-instances
👉 avoid-excessive-expressions
👉 avoid-unused-generics

📌 The video can be found at the links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewpZQ78ocfY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIUax3zDiUk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHUoQo1kHRg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpS-Fr8uso4

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

📌 You can share your feedback at the link.
https://google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4PhMtNLa6DWOGWi

#survey

The new episode of Observable Flutter is dedicated to refactoring a three-year-old package authored by the host.

The package provides an animated navigation bar that can be customized.

Let's wish Craig luck with updating his brainchild 😁

📌 Episode

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AI is increasingly being used in modern products. For example, Prospera is an AI-based sales trainer that provides real-time recommendations and feedback during and after calls. In the recent Gemini API Developer Competition, this app won both “best Flutter app” and “most Useful app”.

📌 More details about Prospera in the article.
https://medium.com/flutter/prospera-using-flutter-to-bring-ai-to-the-frontline-of-sales-71377810fd26

#article

avoid-passing-self-as-argument in DCM's Rules of the Week.

📌 The video can be found at the links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWaZnN7E1Uo

#dcm

At first glance, benchmarks seem quite simple: run, measure, and there it is - the truth. But the rabbit hole is much deeper than it may seem.
Any benchmark is just an experiment, and the result can be influenced by many factors. Therefore, it is not the result itself most important but the analysis of the experiment and the validation of the result.

In his article, Vyacheslav Egorov showed how to work with the results of such experiments, using as an example a fresh viral benchmark.

📌 I highly recommend to read this article.
https://mrale.ph/blog/2024/11/27/microbenchmarks-are-experiments.html

#article

avoid-unnecessary-setstate in DCM's Rules of the Week.

📌 The video can be found at the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kWDvW68QiA

#dcm

The Flutter plugin for VSCode has received another update. It contains:

👉 “Peek Error” popup with full test output;
👉 improved stop/continue execution for threads and isolates in debug.

For future SDK versions:
👉 color preview in code completion;
👉 “Go to Imports” command that shows all import directives of the corresponding identifier in the file.

📌 This and much more in the detailed changelog at the link.
https://dartcode.org/releases/v3-102/

#update

The Flutter channel has announced the #FlutterInProduction event, which will take place 11am PT on December 17, 2024.

This is dedicated to the development of Flutter as a stable and reliable framework that is used by various companies and developers around the world to create production-ready applications.

Presumably, there will be stories about cool applications in the markets that are made with Flutter

📌 Announcement
📌 Denoscription

#FlutterInProduction
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Craig Labenz and Mateusz Wojtczak discuss using Patrol in the new episode of Observable<Flutter>.

📌 The series can be found here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fidNg4ZzUKA

#video

The flutter_colorpicker package provides a flexible customizable color picker widget for your app.

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

#package

We continue the topic of rendering optimization using Canvas. Last time we talked about drawAtlas, and today we will show and tell about drawPoints. This method allows you to very optimally draw a set of points with different modes.

Just like drawRawAtlas, there is drawRawPoints, which provides even greater performance.

📌 Example

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use-setstate-synchronously in DCM's Rules of the Week.

📌 The video can be found at the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gahYeAyQv4

#dcm

Meet the new version of Flutter 3.27, which will bring us:

👉🏻 A bunch of updates for Cupertino widgets
👉🏻 New features for CarouselView
👉🏻 The ability to use different Route Transitions for entry/exit
👉🏻 Finally spacing for Row and Column
👉🏻 Impeller on Android is now the default engine for modern devices
👉🏻 Improvements for Web and iOS
👉🏻 Download counter for packages on pub.dev
👉🏻 Pub Workspaces for working with monorepositories
👉🏻 New Flutter Inspector

And much more!

📌 Article

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The new release of Observable Flutter greets us with a detailed analysis of home_widget directly from the author.

We have already touched on this package before, but since then there have been updates, and the ability to make "home widgets" interactive has appeared.

📌 Video

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The new version of Flutter goes as always together with the new version of Dart. This time, in terms of new features of the language, the release is more of a formality. Pubdev, on the other hand, got several notable new features:

👉 Pub workspaces;
👉 Pub download counts.

📌 Read more in the announcement.
https://medium.com/dartlang/announcing-dart-3-6-778dd7a80983

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Some vulnerabilities were fixed in the 3.27:

👉 missing sanitization checks for file_selector_android and image_picker_android packages;
👉 Deserialization leads to adhoc code execution for shared_preferences_android
👉 Malformed APNG images could cause out-of-bounds memory writes

Severity: Medium 4.3/10

Recommended action: updating package versions to 0.8.12+18 of image_picker, 0.5.1+12 of file_selector and 2.3.4 of shared_preferences and updating to Flutter 3.27 stable.

📌 More information can be found:
https://github.com/flutter/packages/security/advisories/GHSA-r465-vhm9-7r5h
https://github.com/flutter/packages/security/advisories/GHSA-98v2-f47x-89xw
https://github.com/flutter/packages/security/advisories/GHSA-3hpf-ff72-j67p
https://github.com/flutter/packages/pull/8184
https://github.com/flutter/packages/pull/8188
https://github.com/flutter/packages/pull/8187
https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/56928
https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/57025

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