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

#update

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/

#announcement

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/

#update

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

#video

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

#video

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/

#article

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

#video

Along with the new quarterly survey, the results of the previous one came up.

📌 Details are in the article at the link.
https://medium.com/flutter/flutter-2023-q1-survey-api-breaking-changes-deep-linking-and-more-7ff692f974e0

#article

Invertase has recently announced the launch of Globe, a global deployment platform for Dart. The platform is still running in a private preview, but you can already register your interest.

📌 Find out more at the link.
https://globe.dev/

#announcement

Some news from Fluttercon. So nice demo of multi-window for desktops. I hope we will be able to use it soon (although as was said it is far from the production). There was really a lot of cool and useful speeches, so as soon as the recording appears, you can look and for sure do not regret it. But not all of them you have to wait for, some you them can already read as articles and try as libraries. In the next posts I will share the links with a bit of details.

#event

A great talk by Daria Orlova on how to approach the code base health-check. It will be useful as for business that is need an audit, as well as developers who care about the code quality in their projects.

📌 The text version of the speech is available in the article.
https://chililabs.io/blog/flutter-mobile-app-code-audit

📌 Дополнительные материалы в репозитории.
https://github.com/darjaorlova/fluttercon23-code-audit-resources

#article

If you want to experiment with Flutter on your favorite TV or any other system without official support, the information from Aleksandr Denisov will be most useful for this difficult activity.

📌 Details in the article.
https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-for-apple-tv-756fcd5e8113

📌 A link to the example.
https://github.com/denisovav/flutter_tv

#article

If you need to show a unite multi-page process in the one bottom-sheet, and do it with a perfect transitions, it should now become much easier. Wolt has recently released a new open-source package which is sharped right to solve this case.

📌 Read more in this article by Maria Lomakina/Cagatay Ulusoy/Scott Lyttle.
https://careers.wolt.com/en/blog/tech/an-overview-of-the-multi-page-scrollable-bottom-sheet-ui-design

📌 The library is available at the link.
https://pub.dev/packages/wolt_modal_sheet

#package

If you're interested in how the scroll system works under the hood, my speech is also available as an article. Two parts, to be exact:

📌 The theoretical one.
https://medium.com/@mbixjkee1392/slivers-or-how-scrolling-works-c6082f2c6b57

📌 And the practical using.
https://medium.com/@mbixjkee1392/how-does-your-sliver-leave-the-screen-c449a1557038

#article

Flutter is increasingly being used for simple games. At Fluttercon you could see them in action at some of the booths. But not only at the conference itself, at the party afterwards one gave us a lot of fun.

📌 Beautiful in its simplicity but no less exciting of it - Orbit Guard.
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/orbit-guard-galaxy-guardian/id6449152562?l=en-GB
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.raitissaripo.orbitguard

#game

There are a lot of people who like the newsletter format. If you like this too this info for you, Daria Orlova has recently launched her own.

📌 You can subscribe at the link.
https://dariadroid.substack.com/

#announcement

Already in August useMaterial3 will change its default value from false to true on the master channel. So if you relied on the default value but don't plan to migrate to M3, you should care about setting the value manually.

📌 Find more about the change here.
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/127064

#announcement

Google has dropped their plans to move Assistant smart speakers to Fuchsia. Apparently, these are the first visible effects of global layoffs. For supporting Nest Hub devices nothing changed.

📌 Read more in the article.
https://9to5google.com/2023/07/25/google-abandons-assistant-speakers-fuchsia/

#announcement