Issue 185 - Flutter Tap Weekly Newsletter
Android brand gets a modern look, Supabase services in Flutter, building a news app, Flutter videos and new packages.
Let's dive into this week's content, waiting to supercharge your Flutter projects:
Articles
A new modern look for the Android brand. The Android team launched a new brand identity to better represent the users' diversity. "As the world’s largest operating system, Android’s open platform serves a diverse community of developers, device makers and users. And as we’ve grown — with over 3 billion Android devices worldwide — so has our vision. We believe our brand system and how we show up visually to the world as Android should reflect Android’s core ethos of being open, iterative and inclusive. That’s why we’re sharing an update to our visual identity that better represents our Android community — and it’s also a lot of fun, too."
Tutorials
Using Supabase Services in Flutter. In this tutorial, Aseem Wangoo introduces us to using Supabase with our Flutter apps.
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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.
Integrating Flutter {all 6 platforms} and Python: A Comprehensive Guide. If you ever want to run Python code on your Flutter app, this tutorial is for you.
Building a News Aggregator App with AWS Amplify, Flutter, and React: A Comprehensive Guide. A fantastic tutorial by Tim Lavreniuk teaches us how to build a complete full-stack app.
Videos
Observable Flutter: Zombie pathfinding. Tune in to watch Craig Labenz program the pathfinding logic for zombies in his infinite zombie-shooter game.
Flutter TDD & Clean Architecture - Learn By A Project | Full Course for Beginners [Tutorial]. By Flutter Guys. 📄 Architecture is very important in developing an application. Architecture can be likened to a floor plan that describes how the flow in an application project. The main purpose of implementing the architecture is the separation of concern (SoC). So, it will be easier if we can work by focusing on one thing at a time.
Home Automation in Flutter - Ep. 4: Animations Using Rive. By Roman Just Codes. In this episode (Episode #4) I'll continue leveraging the theming we implemented in the previous video to load Rive animation assets according to the selected theme for my Flicky Home Automation app, while developing both splash and loading page. Make sure to catch the previous videos in the series where I discuss hardware and project setup.
Humpday Q&A/AMA :: 6th September 2023 :: #HumpdayQandA #Flutter #FlutterCommunity. With live-coding and your #dart and #flutter questions answered by Simon Lightfoot, John Wiese, and Randal Schwartz!
Packages
uuid. Simple, fast generation of RFC4122 UUIDs. Version 4.0.x is a complete redesign of the underlying setup, but tries to be API compatible or similar to 3.x.
flutter_staggered_grid_view. Provides a collection of Flutter grids layouts (staggered, masonry, quilted, woven, etc.).
country_code_picker. A flutter package for showing a country code selector. In addition it gives the possibility to select a list of favorites countries, as well as to search using a simple searchbox.