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/