Michele Volpato

Michele Volpato

This week in Flutter #86: Getting closer to Flutter Forward

More content has been shared this week for the 17 days of new Flutter content. We are getting closer to the Flutter Forward event, and, after some technical problems at the start of the week, this is the new content:

In addition, a couple of blog posts were also shared, linked down below.

- Michele Volpato

Development in Flutter ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป

How I built and published a Flutter app in 48 hours

by Christos

Read how Flow, a money tracker app, was implemented and published on the Google Play Store in a work week. Which packages and plugins are included? Which state management solution? (hint: it is my favorite one).

Creating inclusive apps with Flutter: Best practices for accessibility

by Carlo Loguercio

“Flutter provides a number of built-in features and best practices that developers can use to make their apps more accessible, including support for screen readers, automatic text contrast, and the ability to add semantic labels to widgets.”

Learn how to make sure your Flutter app is usable by everybody.

Playful typography with Flutter

by Brian James

Explore creative use of variable fonts and shaders in Flutter using FontVariation and AnimationController.

Material 3 for Flutter

by Eilidh Southren

What new features have been added to Flutter regarding Material 3? And what is coming next?

Backend for Flutter developers ๐Ÿ—„

Building a multiplayer quiz game with Flutter and Supabase

by Christos

The Supaquiz project was the winner of the Best Flutter Project in the Launch Week 6 Hackathon Winners. How was the project implemented?

Tools to improve your Flutter experience ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ

Screenshots and automated publishing for pub.dev

by Jonas Finnemann Jensen

You can now declare screenshots for a Dart package on pub.dev. And you can easily publish your package by using GitHub Actions. Read more about the implications in case you want to go this route.

Software engineering in general ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป

6 Best Practices to Manage Pull Request Creation and Feedback

by Jenna Kiyasu

It can take you some more time when handling pull requests, but a good culture is important for your software engineering team. What I like to do is to provide enough context in the PR description, so that the reviewer does not need to navigate to some far-away Jira issue. What I also like to do is add the same description in the squash commit, so that from the repository you do not need to navigate to GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket.


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

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