Newsletter Issue 51

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Articles

Announcing Flutter 1.20. Flutter 1.20 is here with a lot of improvements!. Performance improvements, new widgets, embedded Dar Dev tools on Visual Studio code, and much more. Check it out.

Lessons Learned After Making the First 10 Commercial Apps in Flutter. A great article by Łukasz Kosman and Jakub Wojtczak. Both came from a Xamarin background and switched to Flutter. Here they talk about what reasons make Flutter a better choice for them.

Tools

Dart & Flutter Easy Wins 1-7. Fantastic snippets of Dart code by Andrea!

Tutorials

Flutter Web: Getting started with Responsive Design. In this tutorial by Souvik Biswas, we learn how to start to write responsive web applications with Flutter.

Music Player Using Flutter. A great tutorial by Anmol Gupta. Here we learn how to play audio files, fetch music from the external storage, and a URL.

Simple State Management in Flutter using Streams. In this tutorial by Jakub Neander, we learn a different approach to managing state with Streams.

Videos

Debugging (The Boring Flutter Development Show, Ep. 41). In this episode, Filip and Fitz are back again, this time looking at debugging. Learn some helpful ways to tackle bugs and some tips and tricks.

The Most Useful New Features in Flutter 1.20. The Flutter 1.20 was released in August 2020. It is a major update for flutter in android and ios. In this Flutter new release, there are updates to visual studio code, a new widget, and many more.

Flutter CI/CD with Codemagic. By Amateur Code. I’ve been trying to learn and set up CI/CD for the Book Club App for quite some time now! Finally after a lot of headaches and a lot of trouble I finally got it working! This was the most stressful video I have made, it took me over 24 hours to finish the recording, but I finally got it. I decided to throw in a little bit of comedy into this video, let me know what you think!

Packages

flutter_insta Flutter package to get Instagram user’s details such as profile picture URL, number of followers, following, Bio, website, and download reels video. pub.dev.

flutter_mentions A simple flutter input widget to add @ mentions functionality to your app. pub.dev.

bonsoir A Zeroconf library that allows you to discover network services and to broadcast your own. Based on Apple Bonjour and Android NSD. pub.dev.