Issue 243 - Flutter Tap Weekly Newsletter
Explore AI with Flutter, handling decimal precision, and more Flutter tutorials!
Articles
Unleash new AI capabilities for Flutter in Firebase Studio. Amanda Fitch dives into how autonomous AI agents and smart templates let you build, refactor, and optimize Flutter apps at warp speed—think Gemini writing code, fixing bugs, and managing your stack while you focus on the fun parts.
🧠 New from me: Proven Startup Ideas
If you’re tired of chasing startup trends or building MVPs that go nowhere… I’ve launched something new for you.
Proven Startup Ideas is my new newsletter for indie founders who want to build real, profitable products—without guessing what users want.
Each issue breaks down:
A proven company or market
A niche opportunity they’ve ignored
A clear angle you can build on
If your goal is $10K MRR—not raising VC—this one’s for you.
Our last take:
Mindbody Left a $39/Month Niche Wide Open
Solo yoga and Pilates instructors still need tools that feel made for them.
Tutorials
Why precision matters — Decimals in Dart/Flutter. Tobias Ottenweller explains how standard doubles can introduce rounding errors, and demonstrates using BigDecimal for accurate calculations—so your Flutter apps handle prices, totals, and other critical values with confidence.
Supercharge Your Dart & Flutter Development Experience with the Dart MCP Server. Ander Dobo and Kenzie Davisson show us how integrating the Dart MCP Server enables AI agents to analyze, fix, and enhance your projects directly from your development environment, streamlining tasks like debugging, package management, and code generation.
Shorebird: Deliver Real-Time Updates to Your Flutter app. Mahesh Jamdade explains how you can integrate Shorebird to instantly patch bugs and deliver new features, keeping your users happy and your release cycle agile even when production issues strike at the worst possible time.
A Deep Dive into Firebase Cloud Functions with Flutter. The App Forge teaches us how to securely move backend logic out of your Flutter app using Firebase Cloud Functions.
Videos
Flutter & Flame Game Dev is INSANE in 2025 🔥 | Beginner Overview. By OzyCodes. In 2025, you don’t need Unity or Unreal to start building powerful, interactive games — just Flutter and the Flame game engine.
Vibe-coding with Gemini CLI | Observable Flutter #67. Watch as Craig Labenz is joined by Randal Schwartz to replicate - and surpass? - all the work of the previous three streams in one hour of work using the Gemini CLI.
Build and ship amazing multiplatform iOS and Android apps with one codebase. Learn how to build cross-platform mobile apps with Flutter and Firebase. In this video, we'll show you why Flutter's unique architecture and productive developer tools, combined with Firebase's easy-to-use backend services, make it easier than ever to create high-quality apps for iOS and Android.
Humpday Q&A/AMA and Live Coding! :: 30th July 2025 :: #HumpdayQandA #Flutter #FlutterCommunity. Answering your #Flutter and #Dart questions with Simon, Scott, Randal, Danielle and John.
Packages
not_static_icons. Beautifully crafted animated icons for Flutter, crafted with Lucide — no Rive or Lottie required.
flutter_md. A high-performance, lightweight Markdown parser and renderer specifically designed for Flutter applications. Perfect for displaying formatted text from AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and other LLMs.
awesome_snackbar_content. A package that lets you uplift your SnackBar or MaterialBanner experience in the app.