Issue 184 - Flutter Tap Weekly Newsletter

Let's dive into this week's content, waiting to supercharge your Flutter projects:

Articles

How I became a Google Developer Expert in Flutter. Alexey Inkin tells us about his journey to become a Google Developer Expert.

Tutorials

Streamlining Mobile App Updates with Shorebird CLI: A Comprehensive Guide for Flutter Developers. In this tutorial, Bhavesh Sachala teaches us how to use Shorebird CLI to push app updates directly to the user's devices without waiting for store approval.

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Stream is looking for an experienced Flutter engineer to lead our engineering efforts and SDK development for Flutter. The position is open to anyone in EMEA and those willing to relocate to Amsterdam (relocation support included). More information here.

Flutter Advanced Hive Database Usage. Hive is a popular local database for Flutter apps. In this tutorial, Veli Bacik teaches us how to use Hive effectively.

URL Expansion with Dart. Dirisu Jesse shows us how to build a URL expander CLI in Dart in this tutorial. It's a great small app that has many uses.

Videos

Observable Flutter: Building with Stacked. Watch as Craig Labenz is joined by FilledStacks founder, Dane Mackier, to build a sample app using the Stacked package.

home_widget (Package of the Week). HomeWidget is a Plugin to make it easier to create HomeScreen widgets on Android and iOS. HomeWidget does not allow writing widgets with Flutter itself. It still requires writing the widgets with native code.

Learn two ways of animating this chart with simple trick | Micro animations. By Techie Blossom.

Humpday Q&A/AMA :: 30th August 2023 :: #HumpdayQandA #Flutter #FlutterCommunity. It's the 35th Wednesday this year! and that means its #HumpdayQandA again! Join Simon Lightfoot, Randal Schwartz and Danielle Cox in 1 Hour for another session of #Flutter and #Dart Q&A! Along with live coding!

Packages

grouped_list. A Flutter ListView where the list items can be grouped into sections.

state_notifier. ValueNotifier, but outside Flutter and with some extra perks.

home_widget. A plugin to provide a common interface for creating HomeScreen Widgets for Android and iOS.