This week in Flutter #135: Flutter conferences in Europe

In the last couple of days, Flutter Heroes took place in Turin, Italy. You can watch the talks from last year on the Flutter Heroes YouTube channel. Seeing how long it took to publish the videos, I do not expect the new ones to be available soon. If you missed it, but you would like to attend a Flutter event, you can check the Flutter Global Summit website. The conference will take place online in a few days. Other upcoming events in Europe are: Flutter Connection, in Paris, Full Stack Flutter, online, Fluttercon in Berlin, and Flutter & Friends in Stockholm.

Stay up to date with the latest Flutter events on Flutter Conferences.

- Michele Volpato

🧑‍💻 Development in Flutter

Easy Flutter Integration With AI Using Mistral AI

by Marcin Gruchała

“Mistral AI API is an easy way to access cloud-based AI and create more complex AI functionalities in your app.” Mistral AI is a French company, so it might be an option if you need to comply with some European Union specific directions. This article shows how to use it in your Flutter app.

Smartwatch Development with Flutter

by Victor Carreras

Can you use Flutter to make a Wear OS smartphone app? Victor shows how to get started in this article.

How Flutter facilitates collaboration between designers and developers at L+R

by Ivan Leider

This is an article about the design process at L+R during the collaboration with Global Citizen for their app rewrite. There are both screen and code examples.

🎥 Flutter videos

Observable Flutter #36: Google AI Dart SDK!

with Craig Labenz and Khanh Nguyen

In the previous issue, I mentioned the new Gemini API. In this video, Craig and Khanh show how you can use it in your Flutter app.

👨‍💻 Software engineering

An interactive study of common retry methods

by Sam Rose

When the server answers with a 5xx error, what should you do? Retry the request, of course. But how? In this post, Sam explores different methods of retrying requests, “… demonstrating why some common approaches are dangerous and ultimately ending up at what the best practice is. At the end of this post you will have a solid understanding of what makes safe retry behaviour, and a vivid understanding of what doesn’t.”

That’s it for this week.

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Have a bug-free week,

- Michele Volpato