Newsletter Issue 159

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Tutorials

Flutter Performance Tricks. Gökhan VARIŞ gives us some easy tips and actions to improve the performance of our Flutter apps.

In this series, Karthik Ponnam teaches us about Shaders in Flutter:

• Flutter Shaders: An Introduction.
• Creating Custom Shaders in Flutter: A Step-by-Step Guide.
• Image Manipulation with Shaders — Flutter.

Reduce your server cost with Riverpod. Rei shows us how we can reduce the cost of our server by using caching, debouncing, and canceling requests.

Videos

Observable Flutter: Building a Mason brick. Watch as Felix and Craig build out a brand new Mason brick and put it to use in local development.

Real-Time Games with Dart - Dominik Roszkowski, Felix Angelov :: Flutter Forward #FlutterForward. In this talk we’re going to show how to run Dart on the backend to drive a simple real-time multi-player game across multiple platforms. We’re going to play with flame game engine and try to reuse some code between client and server.

Humpday Q&A/AMA :: 8th February 2023 :: #HumpdayQandA #Flutter #FlutterCommunity. Special Guests: Mangirdas Kazlauskas, Danielle Cox, Sarah Fullmer. Simon Lightfoot, Scott Stoll, and Randal Schwartz and Danielle Cox and Salih Güler for Dart and Flutter as guests. Questions and answers and some live coding for this week’s Humpday Q&A AMA!

Books

Flutter and Dart Cookbook: Developing Full-Stack Applications for the Cloud. This book written by Richard Rose is a great resource to learn Flutter and Dart. It is a practical guide to building Dart and Flutter applications. It is a great resource for beginners and intermediate developers.

Packages

dio A powerful HTTP package for Dart/Flutter, which supports Global settings, Interceptors, FormData, Aborting and canceling a request, Files uploading and downloading, Requests timeout, Custom adapters, etc. pub.dev.

flame_audio Audio support for the Flame game engine. This contains all audio related code will live in the future, using the audioplayers package. pub.dev.

currency_picker A flutter package to select a currency from a list of currencies. pub.dev.