This week in Flutter #99: Dart and Flutter content at Google I/O

Google I/O content was announced this week and there are some interesting talks about Dart and Flutter. Reading the titles, I think nothing new will be presented. You can already find references to those talks in content that is already available online. Nevertheless, I am going to watch the Material 3 and Impeller related talks. What about you?

A lot of backend links this week. Let’s get started!

- Michele Volpato

🧑‍💻 Development in Flutter

Why theming in Flutter is confusing (to me) Part 2

by Stephan E.G. Veenstra

Abstraction, global theming, and explicit theming in this second part of an article linked in the newsletter a couple of weeks ago.

🗄 Backend for Flutter developers

Creating a To-Do App in Flutter using Amplication

by Akshita Dixit and Hamdaan Ali

Amplication is a development platform that auto-generates backend apps built with TypeScript and Node.js. It also generates frontend UI and it supports GRaphQL and REST APIs. In this article, you’ll learn how to create the backend for a to-do service and connect it to a Flutter app.

Generating Images in SVG with Supabase Edge Functions and Dart

by Rodrigo Martins Mansueli

In the recent Supabase Launch Week, the team announced support for Dart Edge, which you can use to run Supabase Edge Functions. Get started using them with this small project.

Full-stack Dart with Flutter, Supabase and Dart Edge

by Christos

And if you want to learn more about Dart Edge and Supabase Edge Functions, and even use them in a Flutter app, here is a tutorial for you.

How to email PDF results with Appwrite cloud, Mailgun and Flutter

by Femi-ige Muyiwa

If you, instead, want to use the Firebase alternative AppWrite as a backend service, in this article you’ll learn how to integrate it with Mailgun, an email API service for developers.

Serverpod 1.1

This week, the Serverpod team announced version 1.1. In this version, the team collaborated with Google to bring better support for deployments in the cloud, in particular for Google Cloud Run.

🎥 Flutter videos

Observable Flutter: Prisma ORM

with Craig Labenz

“Watch as Craig Labenz connects to a Postgres database from Dart code using Prisma ORM.”

Firebase Crashlytics (Package of the Week)

“Need an easy way to track and prioritize crashes in your app? Check out Firebase Crashlytics, a lightweight, realtime crash reporter!”

That’s it for this week.

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Have a bug-free week,

- Michele Volpato