Flutter Package Directory
Hundreds of Flutter ready packages ready to jump start some complex functionality. Check it out at: https://pub.dartlang.org/packages
Apps Built With Flutter Directory
Great set of front screens and descriptions to show what is possible using flutter. Of course you need to load it on your phone to experience their functionality. Click here: https://itsallwidgets.com/
Very Nice Overview of State in Flutter
A very nice and recent article (June 2018) with some great visuals that really de-tangle some of the relationships between state, context and widgets. Nice code samples as well. Looks like the beginning of a nice book on the subject.
Nice Navigation Example + Widget Tree Visuals
Working with the navigation example at Flutter.io I felt there must be a better way to work this issue … and a little searching found this article:
Nice Flutter Performance Article
Came across a nice article: http://bizz84.github.io/2018/03/18/How-Fast-Is-Flutter.html discussing Flutter performance (its a few months old) vs a similar timing app in iOS. It’s main takeaways are (confirming suspicions): Frequent UI redraws are expensive If you call setState() often, make sure that it redraws as little UI as possible.
MVC for Flutter?
Flutter seems like the antithesis of MVC (Model-View-Controller) development approach but one person has come up with (I expect a computationally intensive) approach discussed at: https://proandroiddev.com/flutter-in-mvc-437ed7cead2e.
A nice article on exactly what is a Flutter Widget
The notion of widgets in development have been around for a long time, tracing back at least 20 years to components in Portal CMS systems. But some of these older widget systems still inherited a lot of visual context from the underlying OS. A nice
Recent Flutter UI running on Fuchsia Article (Example)
This May 2018 article from the Verge concludes: At this point, there’s no real indication of what Google plans to do with Fuchsia. Is it an actual future operating system that the company is building from the ground up to replace Android and Chrome OS?
Nice Master pubspec.yaml
Nice example at github of a pubspec.yaml that has everything. Published 8/15/2018
Dart vs PHP (value in learning)
Nice pro and con comparison. Note that they reviewed the old Dart 1.24.3 vs Dart 2.0 which is out now and addressed a couple of the cons they site against Dart. A key takeway from the Slant community is : When comparing PHP vs Dart, the Slant community recommends Dart for