Tim Sneath has recently introduced a set of packages providing runtime support for the Windows, COM and Win32 API for Dart. This set grew out of his small hobby project and has now grown to the point of being officially announced.

📌 Read more in the announcement.
https://timsneath.medium.com/introducing-dart-windows-4c0b55b063b0

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The Google Mobile Ads plugin for Flutter has received an update:

👉 Dart support for Native Ads;
👉 Updated application samples;
👉 WebView API for Ads.

📌 Details in the article.
https://medium.com/flutter/2023-google-mobile-ads-updates-for-flutter-16b603df9ec9

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Codemagic has received the option to build on M2, but for now, it is only available on request. To compare the performance and see if you need it right now, you can use the results of the benchmark by Codemagic.

📌 Details in the article.
https://blog.codemagic.io/flutter-m2-mini-comparison/

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I'm sure many people enjoyed the showcase shown at IO, with the game menu screen demonstrating custom shaders' work.

📌 Craig Labenz figures out the implementation in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQT8ABlgsq0

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Interesting effects can be achieved not only with shaders. Fedor Blagodyr has released a library that allows you to add quite interesting glitch effects.

📌 The library is available here.
https://pub.dev/packages/animated_glitch

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If you liked the FLIP game shown at the I/O, you will probably also be interested in how it was made.

📌 VGV team shows it in their article.
https://verygood.ventures/blog/how-its-made-i-o-flip

#ohmyflutter #omf #flutterdev #flutter #article

A new episode of Flutter Build Show is out. Craig Labenz shows how you can build your custom fragment shader.

📌 The video is available here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpcPZdfJbq8

#flutterbuildshow #video

As planned, Google has begun rolling out Fuchsia to 2nd-gen Nest Hub devices, but selectively for now. A wider launch should take place in the coming weeks.

📌 Read more in the article.
https://9to5google.com/2023/05/23/nest-hub-2nd-gen-fuchsia/

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Despite all the convenience of the declarative layout in Flutter, you can always go down to the painting level to add a wow effect.

📌 Using ColorFilter by Brian Kariuki in a small but nice-looking challenge on Flutter.
https://twitter.com/briankariuki/status/1660975521138712576?s=61&t=yIDib_1gXmWoypif6uEk-w

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I'm sure everyone knows and deeply appreciates Tim Sneath's contribution to the popularity of Dart and Flutter. He recently announced his leaving Google. So it looks like Dart and Flutter will have a new face. Tim Sneath, thank you so much for all you did ✌️

https://timsneath.medium.com/a-fond-farewell-to-flutter-and-dart-7a7a8c7c03e2

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Draggable widget in the new episode of Widget of the Week.

📌 More details by the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4x2G_9-Mu0

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The Flutter plugin for IntelliJ has been updated. There are some pretty useful improvements in this update:

👉 DevTools on Multiple Devices;
👉 Preserve Console Logs during Hot Reload/Restart;
👉 Live Templates updated to Dart 2.17;
👉 Environment Variables in Run Configurations;

📌 A detailed changelog is available at the link.
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9212-flutter/versions/stable/341657

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For users of the free version of Dart Code Metrics is not the brightest news. The team has announced the start of the deprecation process for the opensource version, after July 16 it will be removed from the pub.

📌 See here for details.
https://dcm.dev/blog/2023/06/06/announcing-dcm-free-version-sunset/

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The Flutter plugin for VSCode also recently received an update. This release includes mostly general UX improvements for the current version and future features.

📌 A detailed list is available here.
https://dartcode.org/releases/v3-66/

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Ever wanted to build your own portable console? Khanh Nguyen and Camille Simon haven’t just wanted to, they did - Raspberry Pi, Flutter, voilà.

📌 How they did it, in the video at the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CCVB31feO0

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Surely everyone has heard about Impeller and waiting for the bright future it is supposed to bring us. But how should it improve performance, what are the key differences in its works?

📌 Leigha Jarett and Brandon DeRosier explain the main points in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd5NqS01rlA

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In Flutter, we quite rarely have to get into the native part, because most of the popular native needs are available out of the box or already implemented in popular plugins. But if we're talking about rare cases, we need to do it ourselves.

📌 How we can do it, read in Jahswill Samuel's article.
https://blog.codemagic.io/working-with-native-elements/

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CallbackShortcuts in the new episode of Widget of the Week.

📌 More details by the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcQQ1ns_qNY

#widgetoftheweek

Dart is strongly associated with Flutter, but it's far from the only use. From console utilities to server-side applications. And the backend is being mentioned often and often.

📌 If you are interested in this topic, I advise watching Mikhail Matyunin's stream (Russian language) about Dart implementing a Flutter documentation search service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvSdjmrPvkQ

#ohmyflutter #omf #flutterdev #flutter #video

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_6lkkb7zZWGfjkk6

#survey

We’ve recently got an additional way to interact with native libraries in Flutter, which was presented on the last I/O.

📌 Mariam Hasnany and Hossein Yousefi talk about this approach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWp2FJ2TuJs

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