This week in Flutter #67: Win a prize by creating a game in Flutter

Blue Fire is hosting the second Flame🔥 Game Jam. More than 80 teams will create a game during the weekend using Flame a game engine for Flutter. The teams with the best games will win prizes. Even better, all submissions will be open source, so, if you want to learn how to create a game using Flame, you can have a look at the code and learn.

FlutterFlow is also hosting a similar event: FlutterFlow Games Hackathon.

Did you join them?

- Michele Volpato

Development 🧑‍💻

🔗 Using your dev skills for testing

How can you write tests in a way that makes them easier to read and maintain? Stephan E.G. Veenstra continues the series of articles on TDD with this article on treating tests as code. But then, do you TDD the tests as well? 🤨

🔗 Google Pay in Flutter

Here is a quick guide to get you set up with Google Pay in your Flutter app. Written by Aseem Wangoo.

Backend 🗄

🔗 Supabase Flutter SDK 1.0 Developer Preview

During their Launch Week, Supabase announced version 1.0.0 of their Flutter SDK, which includes the removal of SupabaseAuthState and SupabaseAuthRequiredState, and better support for deep links. It does not support Multiplayer, yet.

🔗 Serverpod 0.9.9

A new version of Serverpod is out, which includes a complete web server that can render HTML pages, webhooks, or custom JSON APIs.

Others 🤷‍♂️

🔗 flutter_rating_bar (Package of the Week)

flutter_rating_bar is a Flutter package that can make your life much easier. Whether you need to collect ratings for the content of your app, or for the app itself, this package has everything you need.

That’s it for this week.

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Have a bug-free week,

- Michele Volpato