Issue 222 - Flutter Tap Weekly Newsletter
This edition covers Flutter tips, async functions, and insightful videos on Dart 3 and embedded systems!
Tutorials
Day 20: Ultimate Guide to Using FlCharts and Intl for Noted App Progress Section. Hemant Kumar Prajapati shows us how to manage localized dates and create custom charts in our Flutter app using fl_chart and intl.
Solving ‘Widget Overflow’ Issues in Flutter Layouts: A Beginner’s Guide. Anyone who has made a Flutter app knows about the Widget Overflow error. In this guide, Ugama Benedicta Kelechi gives us some practical tips to prevent and manage this error.
Ensure That Async Functions are Executed Once in Flutter. Tijn van den Eijnde teaches us how to ensure that an async function runs just once, preventing problems with performance.
A practical guide on CPU architectures for Flutter developers. If you ever wondered what arm64-v8a and armv7s mean, this guide, written by Roman Ismagilov, is for you.
Videos
UnmodifiableListView (Technique of the Week). The UnmodifiableListView class helps encapsulate your data, and prevents bugs in your Flutter application.
Ivanna Kacevica: Cleaner Flutter code with Dart 3 🧼. This is a talk from the Full Stack Flutter conference held in May 2024. In this talk, created in partnership with the Flutter team, we'll dive deep into the major new features introduced in Dart 3. The talk is aimed at those who want to start using the new Dart 3 features in their code and are interested in exploring practical use cases. It's suitable for all Flutter expertise levels.
Hannes Winkler: Innovating embedded systems with flutter-pi 🍰. This is a talk from the Full Stack Flutter conference held in May 2024.Flutter Embedded is still a "niche" field, but many people are unaware that for Embedded Systems, flutter might really be a game changer. In this talk, I invite you to explore the impact Flutter might have on Embedded Systems.
Packages
async. Contains utility classes in the style of dart:async to work with asynchronous computations.
soft_edge_blur. A customizable Flutter widget that applies a soft progressive blur effect to one or more edges of its child widget.
fl_chart. A highly customizable Flutter chart library that supports Line Chart, Bar Chart, Pie Chart, Scatter Chart, and Radar Chart.