This week in Flutter #139: Shorebird is now stable
Shorebird is now stable on iOS. The tool that delivers over-the-air updates to Flutter apps is out of beta. Have you tried it? Is it worth the overhead? Let me know!
- Michele Volpato
🧑💻 Development in Flutter
Flutter Pagination with Riverpod: The Ultimate Guide
The article touches on two use cases: simple pagination with infinite scrolling, and pagination with search with improved caching and debouncing.
🛠️ Tools to improve your Flutter experience
How to Test Native Features in Flutter Apps with Patrol and Codemagic
by Codemagic
You can’t usually test native components with automation, resorting to skipping the native components in some way. You can, however, use a tool like Patrol to fully test your Flutter app, including native components.
🎥 Flutter videos
Top 20 finalists from the #GlobalGamers Challenge
The GlobalGamers challenge has reached the final stage and the finalists have been announced. Learn more in the dedicated blog post.
DevTools Extensions – Flutter Build Show
with Khanh Nguyen
Dev tools extensions are built as Flutter web apps and can access Dev tools' services and utilities. They offer a productive way for developers to build custom tools that integrate with the DevTools Suite.
The runtime that makes Dart tick
with Vyacheslav Egorov
Slava Egorov from the Dart team, reflects on the inspiration behind Dart’s development, drawing parallels between the Lego system and the Dart SDK. He takes two ways of iterating a loop in Dart and compares their performance. Not happy with the results, he uses profiling to identify performance issues. A nice Dart talk among the many Flutter ones.
Behavior Driven Development with Flutter
with Filipe Barroso
A few weeks ago I linked a video about Mobile Tech Stack at Tide, a good talk for developers of all levels. The presenters mention Behavior Driven Development, without going into detail about it. If you want to learn more you can watch this talk, or an older one, BDD In Flutter by Oleksandr Leushchenko.
👨💻 Software engineering
My list of challenging software projects some programmers should try
This is a list of projects you can work on while learning a new programming language or as a side project to enrich your resume. Don’t publish yet another TODO app, make something more interesting from this list.
That’s it for this week.
If you want to comment on any of this week’s entries, you can do it in the comment section below.
Have a bug-free week,
- Michele Volpato
Leave a comment