The new version of Flutter makes available for us a lot of new features. From the improvement of the Material 3 support to Impeller preview and using Platform Channels in any isolate.

📌 A detailed list of changes can be found in the announcement.
https://medium.com/flutter/whats-new-in-flutter-3-7-38cbea71133c

#announcement #article

With a fresh remember right after the Flutter Forward event, the Flutter team shared their vision regarding the nearest Flutter’s future and what they plan to work on and improve.

📌 More details by the link.
https://medium.com/flutter/whats-next-for-flutter-b94ce089f49c

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Sad info about how recently Google’s layoffs affected the Fuchsia team and Area 120. Yes, 16% is not low, but I don't think it means the end of the project.

📌 More details are at the link.
https://9to5google.com/2023/01/21/fuchsia-area-120-google-layoffs/

#news

The Flutter Dart Code plugin for VSCode recently received an update. This release has some pretty useful features:

👉 type hierarchy;
👉 call hierarchy.

📌 But that's not all, you can see a full changelog at the link.
https://dartcode.org/releases/v3-58/

#update

A lot of people, for sure, have tried the Holobooth show-case for the Flutter Forward event. And it is impressed Flutter's case from my view.

📌 How it was created, you can read in the article by the link.
https://medium.com/flutter/how-its-made-holobooth-6473f3d018dd

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I think many people remember the Wonderous app. Recently the authors announced a new version with support for foldable devices, and tablets including horizontal orientation.

📌 More details in the article by the link.
https://medium.com/flutter/adapting-wonderous-to-larger-device-formats-ac51e1c00bc0

#article

Tests are very useful for the overall quality of the product. But even if you write a lot of tests, you probably use a small number of asserts. That's because they easily cover the most popular cases. But in fact, there are many more asserts.

📌 The good cheat sheet can be found at the link.
https://medium.com/flutter-community/assertions-in-dart-and-flutter-tests-an-ultimate-cheat-sheet-f6d91510fe6b

#article #tests

Finally, has the Flutter plugin for IntelliJ been updated also. In the release:

👉 setup Flutter SDK for the project separately;
👉 option for automatically running tests before git commit.

📌 Changelog is available at the link.
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9212-flutter/versions/stable/285889

#update

Since Dart can be compiled for many platforms, it can be successfully used to create useful cross-platform CLI utilities.

📌 How to automate the building of such a cross-platform utility with Codemagic, read in the article by Dmitry Zhifarsky.
https://blog.codemagic.io/cross-compiling-dart-cli-applications-with-codemagic/

#article #codemagic #cicd

Flutter DevTools provides us a lot of useful tools. If you're already a sophisticated developer, you're probably very familiar with them and use them regularly.

📌 Those who are not yet so friendly with these tools, can get acquainted with the series of articles from Ashita Prasad.
https://medium.com/@fluttergems/mastering-dart-flutter-devtools-series-introduction-installation-part-1-of-8-4f703a8cfcc8

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Flutter can also be run on wearable devices like smartwatches. As an example, Renan's WearOS game.

📌 Read more in the tweet at the link.
https://twitter.com/renotanumber/status/1614990869685497857?s=67&t=IfKBJMgyLX5T_eAlkeDyqg

#ohmyflutter #omf #flutterdev #flutter #challenge

It is easy enough to embed Unity view into the Flutter application.

📌 How to do it, see the article by Mohammed Babelly.
https://blog.codemagic.io/how-to-embed-an-android-unity-game-in-a-flutter-app/

#article

For now, when various chats and messengers are unremovable parts of life, the feature of mentioning is not only familiar for the user but sometimes is a must-have.

📌 Package mentionable_text_field can help integrate this into your app.
https://pub.dev/packages/mentionable_text_field

#package

Application security is one of the crucial aspects of development. If the application is regularly and successfully attacked, no matter how good the user experience is, it will end up badly.

📌 Scott Hatfield's thoughts on approaches to securing a Flutter application in this article.
https://medium.com/@Toglefritz/three-advanced-ways-to-secure-a-flutter-app-92b38c626ce0

#article

The Flutter team is working actively on the new rendering backend named Impeller. You can already see quite positive results, such as those shown at Flutter Forward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7v-YRdHusM

📌 An introduction to what an Impeller is in the video by Chinmay Garde.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKrYWC_SDxQ

#video

In the new episode of Widget of the Week, the Flutter team talks about RawMagnifier.

📌 More details by the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBRkVCRP1Gw

#widgetoftheweek

A fresh quarterly survey from the Flutter team is up.

📌 Leave feedback on topics of interest to the team.
https://google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4TKhBYKWMAacbu6

#survey

Shaders are special programs GPU uses that allow modifying the final view. With their help, we can implement various effects, including very complicated ones, even those that are not possible to reach any other way except through shaders.

📌 You can start your journey into the shader world from the article series from Karthik Ponnam.

https://karthikponnam.medium.com/flutter-shaders-an-introduction-7dd29632e0dd
https://karthikponnam.medium.com/creating-custom-shaders-in-flutter-a-step-by-step-guide-49ec86bec20d
https://karthikponnam.medium.com/image-manipulation-with-shaders-flutter-aa11027b4a4d

#article

Two decades ago, Google launched a global coding competition called Code Jam, which challenged programmers of all levels to test and hone their skills by racing to solve algorithmic problems.

📌 Do you want to celebrate this anniversary with Google in another programming contest? You can sign up by clicking here.
https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/02/celebrate-googles-coding-competitions.html

#event

A walkthrough of a Flutter beginner's code lab is out.

📌 Filip Hráček himself helps with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sAyPDLorek

#video

The Flutter plugin for VSCode recently received an update. This release has a lot of small improvements and fixes.

📌 A detailed list is available here.
https://dartcode.org/releases/v3-60/

#update