Issue 244 - Flutter Tap Weekly Newsletter
Exploring Flutter 3.35, Dart 3.9 updates, coding tutorials, videos and new packages!
Articles
What’s new in Flutter 3.35. Kevin Chisholm explains how the latest Flutter release boosts developer productivity with stateful hot reload on the web, introduces experimental Widget Previews, and brings major accessibility, UI, and tooling improvements—so you can build better apps, faster, with more control and flexibility.
Announcing Dart 3.9. Amanda Fitch reveals how Dart 3.9 supercharges your workflow with smarter null safety, a lightning-fast CLI, and the powerful new MCP Server for AI assistants. You’ll also find smoother dependency management, expanded cross-compilation, and a move away from outdated 32-bit x86 support—all designed to help you build better apps, faster.
🧠 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:
The Missed Market in Online Course Tools
Kajabi chased big creators. Now’s your chance to build a lean tool for side-hustlers.
Tutorials
Beyond Dart: Tapping into C’s Power with FFI ↗. AbdulMuaz Aqeel shows us how Dart’s FFI lets you call native C code from Dart for speed and flexibility. He walks through building a simple CLI tool that reads files using C functions, highlighting memory management and cross-language integration. This hands-on guide gives you the tools to connect Dart apps with powerful, battle-tested native libraries.
Clean and Testable Widgets with widget_driver in Flutter ↗. Tobias Rump shows us how separating business logic from UI with widget_driver leads to cleaner, more maintainable Flutter widgets. He walks through setting up the package and testing widgets with generated drivers. The article highlights the benefits of this architecture, making your code easier to test and scale.
10 Flutter Code Snippets That Will Save You Weeks of Work ↗. Jack Henrys shares real-world, production-tested Flutter code patterns that streamline development. He teaches how to avoid common pitfalls, save time, and boost app quality with practical snippets—from debounced search fields to responsive layouts. This article is packed with shortcuts and survival tools every Flutter developer should bookmark.
Videos
widgetbook (Package of the Week). Widgetbook helps you catalog your Flutter widgets, view and test them on multiple devices with different themes, and share them with your teams and clients.
Flutter dev to Google. By Nick Manning. Here I talk about some career advice, share anecdotes about my career and how Flutter indirectly helped.
What If Pinball and Air Hockey Had a Baby?. By Makerinator.
This project started as a nostalgia trip back to Aladdin's Castle circa 1994 but quickly turned into a four-month adventure that went precisely $300 over budget and nearly broke my brain. Powered by a Raspberry Pi 4B and coded using the Flame game engine in Flutter , this machine is my personal love letter to the games I grew up with.
Dart on the Server for Flutter Developers. By FlutterBytes Community. You already build Flutter apps; now let’s take Dart to the server together, live. We’ll explore how to power your backend using the same language you use for Flutter. No context switching, no learning curve.
Humpday Q&A/AMA and Live Coding! :: 20th August 2025 :: #HumpdayQandA #Flutter #FlutterCommunity. Answering your #Flutter and #Dart questions with Simon and Randal
Packages
widgetbook. A Flutter package that helps developers catalog their widgets, test them quickly on multiple devices and themes and share them easily with designers and clients. Inspired by Storybook.js.
tostore. A advanced storage engine that supports relational and NoSQL database,data smart cache, multi-space architecture,file/local storage, SQL & key-value persistent store.
measure_size. A stateful widget that measures the size of a child widget immediately after it is rendered.