Issue 229 - Flutter Tap Weekly Newsletter
This edition covers how to publish to iOS App Store, use union types, and update apps with Shorebird and more. Check it out!
Tutorials
How to Release Your Flutter App on the iOS App Store. In this guide, Andrea Bizzotto shows us the step-by-step steps for publishing our app to the App Store just using XCode.
Using Union Types for Context or non Contexted fetching of objects. That's a confusing title but a good tutorial. Zonily Jame Pesquera teaches us how to use union types — a powerful pattern that can help us create clean, type-safe analytics implementations.
Supercharge Your Flutter App Updates with Shorebird. Laxmi kant teaches us how to use Shorebird to push updates directly to our users — without the need to go through the app store approval process or rely on manual updates.
Videos
Flutter UI Testing with Patrol. Patrol is a powerful, open-source testing framework created by LeanCode that enhances Flutter's testing capabilities by enabling interaction with native platform features directly in Dart. This tutorial will take you through writing your first substantial Patrol test, interacting both with the Flutter app itself and also with native permission dialogs and notifications.
Gianfranco Papa: Using Flutter and gRPC to build real-time apps. This is a talk from the Full Stack Flutter conference held in May 2024.
Build an Offline First App using Flutter, Node, Bloc, Express, TypeScript, Docker and PostgreSQL! By Rivaan Ranawat. In this video, we’ll build an offline-first task manager app using Flutter & Node step by step. The user will be able to sign up, log in, and have their logged-in state saved even after closing the app. They can create tasks, view tasks organized by date, and perform all these actions both online and offline. If they’re offline, the app will sync the data automatically with the remote database as soon as they go back online.
Inside a Container widget. Randal Schwartz dives into the source for the Container widget to reveal just how they are made.
Humpday Q&A/AMA and Live Coding :: 4th December 2024 :: #HumpdayQandA #Flutter #FlutterCommunity. Answering all your #Flutter and #Dart questions with Simon, Scott, Randal and Rafal
Packages
mqtt5_client. A server and browser based MQTT5 client for Dart supporting normal, secure sockets and websockets.
flutter_lucide. Flutter package for Lucide Icons. Lucide is a free, open-source icon set with 1450+ icons. It's a fork of the popular Feather icon set.
flex_color_scheme. A Flutter package to use and make beautiful Material design based themes.