Newsletter Issue 70

Happy New Year 2021!

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Articles

Flutter: Falling in Love Again with Mobile and Web Dev. Interview of Lara Martin, a very active member of the Flutter community.

Tutorials

Add in-game notifications to Flutter game. A fantastic tutorial, where Dmytro Gladkyi shows us how to create a notification system for your Flutter app.

Theming a Flutter App. Great tutorial by Andres Torres. We learn how to use themes for our widgets, apps and how to toggle between different themes.

White-label apps in Flutter. In this tutorial, Thomas Middel teaches us how to create a White Label Flutter app so you can use it for more than one project.

The Ultimate List Of Flutter Learning Resources (Over 200!). If you want a list with great resources to learn Flutter, this is it.

Videos

Device_info (Package of the Week). Need to know more about the device that your app is running on like the operating system or model? Deviceinfo is the package you’re looking for! Learn how to set up the deviceinfo package that will let you easily access the underlying APIs.

Material Motion in Flutter and Android. Motion can improve the usability of your app’s design and help users understand how your app works. We go over what Material Motion is and show examples on how to use it in Flutter and Android.

Flutter Tutorial - ImageCropper - Pick & Crop Images. Let’s pick images and crop, rotate, scale, and save them with the ImageCropper Plugin in Flutter.

Flutter Integration Test Tutorial + Firebase Test Lab & Codemagic. Unit tests, widget tests, integration tests - that’s the testing pyramid you’re probably familiar with. The first two have always been quite easy to write and quick to execute. However, integration tests, which are the focus of this tutorial, have had a fair share of their problems - they used to be unnecessarily hard to write and impossible to run on device farms such as Firebase Test Lab. That is, until we had the integration_test package!

Packages

process A pluggable, mockable process invocation abstraction for Dart. pub.dev

configurable-expansion-tile A Configurable Expansion Tile edited from the flutter material implementation that allows for customization. pub.dev.

diacritic Removes common accents and diacritical signs from a string by replacing them with an equivalent character. pub.dev.