Issue 237 - Flutter Tap Weekly Newsletter
This edition covers strategies for faster app development, API structuring, and cool Flutter tutorials!
Articles
How to Improve Your App’s Time-To-Market. Łukasz Kosman gives us a roadmap to faster app development and a quicker launch with different strategies, from Agile and cross-platform development to leveraging AI and low-code solutions.
Tutorials
How I Structure API Responses for Flutter Apps Using Node.js & MongoDB. A great guide on how to keep your API responses modular, efficient, and reusable so you don't get messy code in your app.
Riverpod Simplified: Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Development. Dinko Marinac gives us some of the best practices for applying Riverpod state management to our Flutter apps.
WebSockets in Flutter. Jackie Moraa teaches us how to handle real-time data using Websockets.
Videos
Build a Video Streaming App like YouTube | AWS, FastAPI, Docker, Redis, Flutter | System Design. By Rivaan Ranawat. Let's build a simple yet powerful video streaming app similar to YouTube using Amazon Web Services (AWS), FastAPI, Docker, Redis, PostgreSQL, Flutter and Bloc!
Build Capcut With Flutter - Ultimate Video Editor. By
Flutter Guys. 📄 In this video, we’ll build CapCut Clone, a powerful mobile video editing app that brings professional editing tools to your fingertips. Designed with a modern UI, featuring seamless multi-clip editing, trimming, cropping, speed adjustments, filters, and high-quality exporting, we’ll guide you step by step through the process of creating this feature-packed application using Flutter and FFmpeg.
CupertinoSlideSegmented Control (Widget of the Week). An iOS-styled linear row of buttons that allows users to select between a number of options by tapping or dragging within the segmented control.
Humpday Q&A/AMA and Live Coding :: 16th April 2025 :: #HumpdayQandA #Flutter #FlutterCommunity. Answering all your #Flutter and #Dart questions with Simon, Randal, Danielle and John
Packages
audio_flux. A versatile audio visualization package for Flutter that captures and displays real-time audio data. Using flutter_soloud for playback and flutter_recorder for recording, it offers both traditional CustomPainter rendering and high-performance shader-based visualizations through shader_buffer.
animate_do. Beautiful animations inspired by Animate.css, providing customizable widget-based animations with no external dependencies.
multi_dropdown. The MultiSelect Dropdown for Flutter is a powerful and customizable widget that empowers you to effortlessly manage and search through multiple items in a dropdown list. Customize the dropdown with your own style, and use the controller to programmatically control the dropdown.