Thinking about submitting a talk or two to Fluttercon USA. Company would like me to talk about mobile observability, but I kinda also want to talk about Dart embedding. Curious if Fluttercon is a good fit for that....
everyone’s talking about the python layoffs but the #flutter and #dart layoffs seem to have flown under the radar. from a mobile dev perspective they are more concerning regarding google’s commitment to its supposedly first class cross platform development ecosystem
It occurred to my today that I have been coding for 40 years, starting with ZX Spectrum BASIC and currently enjoying #dart and #flutter. I still love #coding, it still excites me and I am always learning. I can't image a time when I don't code.
@amugofjava Very cool. The first code I ever wrote was BASIC on a Commodore 64. That was probably 1987 or 88 I guess. Those were the good old days when they would ship a BASIC language manual with the computer, in the box.
Turns out there's pkg:flutter_soloud, which already does most of the things we need. I spent the last few weeks helping Marco, the author of the package, to make the API more Dart-isan.
After sinking into the world of #flutter vs. #SwiftUI I must say I'm starting to enjoy flutter more than Apple's stuff. Pssst, they have documentation! And examples! and tons of code freely available without being deprecated or extinct, and no secret cabal.
Hiya everyone! We're on the Fediverse! #introduction
Date Calculator is a Flutter app to calculate date related things, it is still in alpha/pre-alpha so it is not feature complete, but the bare minimum is already here.
It is developed by @winsdominoes at the request of @AmyIsCoolz :3
@coneno Interesting! In our local mobile dev meetup, there's been a surprising (to me) amount of praise for Flutter, so maybe I should check that out in earnest
@ctietze It is definitely a very attractive option for mobile development!
For desktop, there are honestly still a lot of challenges, but as you can see, with enough determination, you can achieve some good (in our opinion :D) results.
I had trouble getting a VerticalDivider to show up in a #flutter toolbar. It's because the Row didn't have any explicit height. There are two solutions: wrap it in a SizedBox, or wrap the row in an IntrinsicHeight. The latter can have performance penalties deep in the widget tree.
I recently posted a lot about using code generation with build_runner for productive #Dart and #Flutter development. Now that I am working on an in-depth article on this topic, I'd like to ask for your input. What questions do you have or what particular aspects do you struggle with? Let me know in the comments!
In the meantime, I thought I’d gather 5️⃣ useful resources I previously shared about code generation in a single thread below.
I think Flutter needs an audio engine plugin (as opposed to an audio player plugin). For mixing, gapless loops, effects, streaming, performance. Something that can easily support a game (or an immersive app).
Before I go ahead with something nobody will use or that I won't be able to maintain, I want to gauge interest within the community, and ideally stir up some excitement. Here: https://filiph.net/fmod/
@trematerra I have explored that a bit but haven't tried more than "hello world" level stuff with it. I do have their Version 1.2 keynote in my YouTube queue for when it goes live in a few days though :) #DartLang#Flutter#ServerPod
Butterfly 2.0 is now officially stable! It's an opensource, crossplatform note-taking app.
Everything has changed since the last 1.x release. Read more here: https://linwood.dev/butterfly/2.0.
How the hell did I miss this implementation typo in Relatica’s spoiler alert code? I know how it happened. Dart string interpolation uses ${} for inserting expressions and I apparently mis-typed a second } instead of ). But I can’t believe I didn’t see the typo until today. Sorry folks :( #relatica#friendica#DartLang#flutter
To this point last night I spent a while debugging why deeplinking wasn't working in iOS, only to realise I had mistyped "FlutterDeepLinkingEnabled" in my info.plist file
Last night I started investigation #flame, which is a game engine built on top of #flutter. I'm REALLY impressed by it. If you already know Dart / Flutter, picking this up is really easy! 🔥
@hankg
No, the game jam got me interested but the timing is terrible for me as well. :( I have other projects in mind that I want to use it for though!
As some of you know, I left Google in 2021, during the pandemic. I felt some of what Hixie is describing, but I guess things went downhill from there. I guess that, if I didn't quit for family/life reasons, I'd be quitting now.
Whenever I discover a new GUI toolkit, my first question is always “is it more native than the Web?” For reference, here are some ways Web apps have better system integration than Flutter:
System fonts, font hinting settings, and font fallback settings.
System text navigation shortcuts.
System scrollbar visibility, thickness, and click settings/behavior.
System highlight menus and controls (on touchscreens).
System display scaling settings.
System reduced-motion settings (An API is documented, but I have never used a Flutter app that actually disables animations. I may be wrong).
System reduced-transparency settings.
System forced-colors mode (Windows High Contrast Mode).
System color palettes (some browsers support setting default colors without necessarily forcing the palette).
System media controls (play/pause/skip, current track, e.g. using MPRIS on freedesktop platforms).
It’s an easier question to answer than my second question: “What WCAG conformance level can I hope for?
My experience with Fluffychat tells me that it’s possible to make a reasonably-usable mobile app for Flutter if you excuse the shoddy support for reduced-motion (note that I have not evaluated its experience with assistive technologies like screen readers). But yeah, don’t even bother with Flutter for Desktop or Web.
@Seirdy Sadly, not all of these features are automatically available to the user in an Electron app. So in some ways, a real web app is more accessible by default than an Electron app. But some apps have to run outside the browser sandbox.
I've avoided using stuff like Freezed because the code generation aspects of Dart/Flutter don't integrate seamlessly with the IDE like I had with Java/Kotlin equivalents. Now that I've done a deep dive on trying to learn Riverpod it seems that code generation really helps make Riverpod a lot easier to work with. If I stick with RIverpod maybe that'll be what finally brings me over on using gen tools like Freezed too #DartLang#Flutter#programming#Riverpod
@hankg Feeezed and Riverpod 2 are perhaps the best packages I have ever used. Your mileage may vary of course, but I'd encourage you to give Freezed one more try, I am confident you will not regret it.
@frenchguych I do admit that I was spoiled by how seamlessly Lombok worked in Java before jumping to Kotlin for getting most of the stuff in Freezed. I'm not thrilled with the syntax either but that too is something I'm starting to get used to since Riverpod has to play the same shenanigans on that stuff.
