FlutterVN newsletter #7: it’s all about Flutter Interactive event
Published in
6 min readDec 12, 2019
All news from Flutter Interactive event: Dart 2.7; Flutter 1.12; Flutter for web goes beta; support for MacOS; XD to Flutter plugin for designer; Supernova. And more…
Articles
- Announcing Flutter 1.12: What a year!: it was 1 year since the first Flutter stable release in Dec 2018. Let’s see what’s new in Flutter v1.12. By Chris Sells.
- Announcing Dart 2.7: A safer, more expressive Dart: Dart 2.7 comes with many interesting features such as: extension methods, null safety (in preview), characters package (in preview). By Michael Thomsen.
- Web support for Flutter goes beta: Now you can use Flutter to write web app (connected, standalone app, Embedded interactive content, lite apps, companion apps). There is Flutter plugin for web too. By Mariam Hasnany.
- Flutter: the first UI platform designed for ambient computing: single UI codebase for multiple platforms.
- The new Supernova: Flutter enabled, Google approved: Supernova adds support for its tool to convert Sketch and Adobe XD mobile designs into native frontend code for Flutter. By Supernova/
- XD to Flutter Plugin: Generate Dart Code Based on Designs: XD to Flutter is a new XD plugin that generates code for creating apps with Flutter based on your designs in Adobe XD.
- New in Rive: Shadows, Blurs, and Masks: new features in Rive: shadows, blurs, and masks. By Guido Rosso.
- Flutter: Adding Flutter module to native Android project and Testing it on Codemagic: by Souvik Biswas.
- EyeEm Fluttered: Adding Flutter to an existing app — a practical example of how Flutter helped support our business goals and an honest retrospective. By Łukasz Wiśniewski.
Media
- Vision Keynote (Flutter Interact ‘19): In our Vision Keynote at Flutter Interact, VP of Design Matias Duarte discusses how Flutter is part of Google’s long term vision for design, design tools involved, and how Flutter remains committed to those building beautiful experiences across devices.
- Product Keynote (Flutter Interact ‘19): In our main Product Keynote at Flutter Interact, we discuss our vision for Flutter, its momentum and growth, hear from third party partners like Supernova, Adobe, Splice, and Rive, and introduce new product announcements.
- Material Theming with Flutter (Flutter Interact ‘19): Discover how Google made Material Design more expressive and how teams can customize Material’s style to better reflect their product’s brand. In this session, learn how you can create your own Material Theme using Flutter.
- Designing for the Web with Flutter (Flutter Interact ‘19): The web is the largest application-delivery platform in existence. How does Flutter work on the web? Are Flutter web apps accessible and performant? What does using Flutter on the web mean for the designer? In this talk, a duo of a software engineer and a designer share the stage to address these questions while live-coding a web app.
- Use Rive and Flutter for dynamic, interactive, & animated experiences (Flutter Interact ‘19): Learn how design and engineering work together to bring something as basic as a login form to life. We’ll walk you through how to build an interactive character in Rive, hook it up in Flutter, and easily iterate on the design in both Rive and Flutter.
- Flutter Interact 2019 Top 5 Recap: Flutter Interact 2019 just wrapped up in Brooklyn, New York. It was an exciting day for the Flutter community! Designers and developers were on hand to witness the power of Flutter to create beautiful apps. In this Top 5 recap, we highlight the top things that were announced at the event.
- Animation deep dive — Flutter in Focus: In past four episodes of this series, we talked about all of the practical ways to build animations in Flutter. In this episode of Flutter in Focus, Filip Hracek introduces how to implement animations in the least pragmatic way imaginable. For educational purposes!
- Creating custom explicit animations with AnimatedBuilder & AnimatedWidget — Flutter in Focus: In this episode of Flutter in Focus, Emily Fortuna introduces why you might want to use AnimatedBuilder or AnimatedWidget versus other animation widgets, and how to use them. In the process she makes a fun repeating gradient animation. Stay tuned, in the next video we’ll take a look under the hood on how animations in Flutter actually work.
Libraries and repositories
- pd4d10/git-touch: Open source GitHub client built with Flutter.
- material-foundation/google-fonts-flutter: A Flutter package for accessing the Google Fonts API.
- mdg-iitr/scrollytell: Cross-platform Scrolly Telling library built using Flutter.
- gskinnerTeam/flutter_vignettes: A collection of fun Flutter experiments, created by gskinner, in partnership with Google.
- widgetmaker.dev: A Flutter UI builder.
- aloisdeniel/flutter_device_preview: Preview of your Flutter app on various device screen configurations from one of your devices.
Thanks for reading. If you are interested:
👏 Press the clap button below to show your support and motivate me to write better!
💬 Leave a response to this article by providing your insights, comments or wishes for the series.
📢 Share this article with your friends, colleagues in social media.
➕ Follow me on Medium, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.
⭐ Star the Github repository.
Or read all newsletter series via this link:
