Last issue Week 6
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- Google Earth chose Flutter for cross-platform UI, integrating with existing engine via method channels. They opted for one new app instead of altering three, prioritizing adaptability and streamlined development across platforms.
- Mobile app development trends toward cross-platform frameworks like Flutter, driven by cost-effectiveness, broader reach, and streamlined development. Native apps face challenges in cost, maintenance, and limited user base, prompting the transition.
- Dart 3.0 introduces patterns for shaping data and extracting specific parts in readable ways.
- Distinguishing between good and great developers, the latter complete tasks efficiently, support teammates, and avoid excessive overtime, facilitating promotions by showcasing competence and capacity for additional responsibilities.
- Explore Flutter's impact, top attributes of development partners, and criteria for selecting them.
- Explore the differences between Flutter and Kotlin to make informed decisions for cross-platform app development.
- Explore Flutter's widget creation methods: classes vs. functions, their pros, cons, and Flutter's preference for classes.
- Explore Flutter's NavigationRail widget with practical implementation and key features like selectedIndex and groupAlignment.
- Guide revisits building ML APIs, now with Django and Flutter, for better accessibility and student benefit.
- Explore Flutter's lifecycle phases, optimizing widget behavior and understanding app evolution intricacies.
- Develop a shimmer-loading effect using Flutter
- Learn about implementing hyperlinks in Flutter using url_launcher and flutter_inappwebview packages.
- Explore Pigeon, a code generator tool for Flutter-native platform communication, focusing on practical implementation examples.
- Implementing a coloring app for SVGs
- Get ready to build a real-time chat app in Flutter with guidance on choosing the communication protocol.
- Watch as Craig Labenz is joined by Flutter Project Manager Kevin Moore, author of json_serializable, to discuss and implement code generation in Dart.
- Feedback lets users give feedback by annotating a screenshot of the current page and adding text, all directly within your app.
- Learn to use Flutter's CustomPaint widget and Supabase Realtime Broadcast for collaborative Figma-like app.
- Create an application from scratch with Flutter, and Node
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James Cardona
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