Using imitations (aka mocks) really helpful for testing. Especially for unit-testing. Mockito and Mocktail libraries are used for it in Flutter. I preferer the last one.

📌 A simple and short guide about this process by Hasan Basri Bayat.

#article #testing

Mason is a template code generator, which has been shown in the latest package of the week video.

📌 More details in the video.

#packageoftheweek

Fuchsia became available for the first time to use on Nest Hab about a year ago. And there was news recently, that now Google made it also available for Nest Hub Max as a preview. You only need to accept a Preview Program on your Nest Hub Max to take this update.

📌 More details about this update by links: first and second.

#update

Documentation is the one of most important parts of production code. When we have documentation, we don’t need to read a lot of code source lines, against we can just read human-friendly denoscriptions to understand or recall, how something works. In Dart, we use a Dart-doc format for documentation.

📌 What it is, and how it works, in the article by Hussain Habibullah.

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Dart can be used for various things on a large count of platforms. And the new episode of The Boring Flutter Development Show is right about it. Simon Lightfoot and Craig Labenz are going to create a distributed counter app, using Flutter, WebSockets, shelf, Google Cloud Run, and Redis.

📌 The first episode of this journey already is able to watch.

#boringshow

Why build apps with Flutter - it is a strange question in 2022nd, in my opinion. Answers to it are really obvious. But often it is so if you are already inside this technology. I met a few people recently, which know about Flutter, but their idea about it is frozen on the 2019th, to my surprise.

📌 I think the article from VGV can be useful for all people, who are outside the Flutter yet but want to know - why build apps with Flutter.

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Big and popular applications have a lot of features, which give interesting opportunities or just look really cool. Repeat something like this is already a good result and training your skills.

📌 Example of this - Uber-style live location tracking, in the article by the link.

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You must clearly understand what you need when studying something - technology, language, etc. Otherwise, there is not a small chance to waste a lot of time on useless things and don’t reach the result. And of course, Flutter doesn’t exception. Moreover, it is a rapidly growing framework, and this fact complicates the problem to choose what is important or not. I have thought a lot of time about the question - what does Flutter developer must know? And standing on my own experience built the knowledge and skills map.

📌 You can find it by the link.

#advice

Flutter IntelliJ Plugin has been recently updated. One of the most awaited features in this release is a monorepo project support for Flutter. Now we don’t need to find tricky ways for this anymore. It works out of the box.

📌 More details changelog by the link.

#update

Flutter Dart Code for VSCode has taken an update too. In this release:

👉 a new setting that allows regenerating localization when .arb is saved;
👉 a new setting to make simple fetching dependencies in nested projects;
👉 a lot of fixes and improvements for future SDK.

📌 More details changelog by the link.

#update

Lint rules are a good way to increase the quality of the project. There are useful sets for Dart and Flutter already: flutter_lint and rules from dart_code_metrics. But if you want something very special and custom for your project, you need to be familiar with analyzer_plugin. At least before recent times. Invertase has released a package custom_lint the other day. This library help with creating new custom rules in an easier way.

📌 More details are in the article by Majid Hajian.

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Flutter is not only a mobile framework already. Bottom Navigation Bar of course a helpful widget for mobile navigation, but isn’t cut out for the desktop or web. A good alternative is the NavigationRail, which was shown in the last Widget of the Week.

📌 More details are in the Widget of the Week video.

#widgetoftheweek

InheritedWidget is an important concept in Flutter. The Flutter team has talked about it not once. The last one Decoding Flutter is not an exception. This theme was explained again.

📌 More details are in the Decoding Flutter video.

#decodingflutter

Flame is a modular game engine for Flutter.

📌 How to create a simple 2D game using Flame and integrate the project with Codemagic for build and share, read in the article by Ivy Walobwa.

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A good infotainment system is an important part of modern auto. Since Flutter’s available platforms have been growing, using it in vehicles also is possible. At least Toyota thinks the same.

📌 Research about using Flutter for multimedia systems in auto in the article (on the Russian language) by dmitriizolotov.

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It is a critical requirement to understand how your technology, tool, etc works. Without this, it is easy to make a lot of painful mistakes. The latest Decoding Flutter video explained one of that stuff. What will happens if works with BuildContext asynchronously, why it is a bad way, and why do we need to work with it synchronously?

📌 More details in the Decoding Flutter video.

#decodingflutter

It is not a secret, that M1 makes build faster than Macs on Intel. But what is mean - faster?
How much faster? What time we can gain using M1 for CI/CD? Exactly these questions were researched by the Codemagic team.

📌 Result of research and comparison in the article.

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In my view, we have two big groups of Flutter developers - IntelliJ users and VSCode users. Maybe in the future, we will get a third group - people who use a browser for development. And the reason for this is Zapp, an in-browser code editor from Invertase. Especially it has become available for early access now.

📌 More details in the article.

#article

Stability and performance are the core of every successful app, as the Crashlytics team says and I absolutely agree with them. They have released a new update recently, which contains:

👉 improved crash reporting for Flutter apps;
👉 filtering of crashes by Google Play track;
👉 dSYM file “Drag and Drop”.

📌 More details in the announcement by the link.

#article

Do you remember that cool interactive platform on the last I/O? An article about how it works has been released recently.

📌 More details by the link.

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A new episode of The Boring Flutter Development Show about using Dart on various platforms for different issues has been released.

📌 Simon Lightfoot and Craig Labenz continue the full-stack journey in the video by the link.

#boringshow