I’ve had the itch to create an app that addresses a very specific hobby need I have.
While it definitely could be a PWA app — I’ve got zero interest in paying for hosting, domains, etc.
I own only an iPhone and iPad, but I’ve decided to use #Flutter. My initial impression is that it and #Dart borrow heavily from other popular programming languages and app platforms. I don’t mind that at all. It feels familiar and fresh. #Wpf, #ReactJs, #Swift, #SwiftUI, #TypeScript
@ctietze Yep -- it's nice being able to run the Android emulator locally on my desktop.
I've got a Mac laptop, I just don't use it for development much (I've got everything nicely configured and familiar on my Windows PC).
I'll switch to the Mac once the app seems "solid" enough to warrant setting up #Flutter dev there. The videos I've seen make it seem bumpy but not complex. 😀
I know a few folks that use Android that I think will want to use my app
I like to try new things ⬅️
I did try #SwiftUI about 6 months ago and enjoyed it generally speaking.
I ran into a number of self-inflicted UX/UI designs though that were really tough to accomplish (at that time, I've not checked since) and that left a slightly less positive taste.
I'm sure I'll encounter similar with #Flutter as well. 🤓
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As some of you know, I left Google in 2021, during the pandemic. I felt some of what Hixie is describing, but I guess things went downhill from there. I guess that, if I didn't quit for family/life reasons, I'd be quitting now.
Theres a new, minimal, cross-platform native app framework called #Fyne for Go that is pretty impressive and something I think most of my mutuals will be interested in. It solves a lot of the same problems as #Flutter, allowing you to write native apps for mobile and desktop seamlessly, while being much more lightweight and using a language that is well designed and nice to use. And it's not GTK based, it implements its own renderer. They are creating their own desktop, which has a very similar look & feel to #xfce, and the vibe of the project overall seems to be shooting to cover much of the same needs as GNOME but much more minimal and emphasizing no-nonsense mobile & desktop development.
Not many offerings check all those boxes, and those that do tend to be on the McDonalds end of the software spectrum.
Update on the whole Flutter Plugin not working with the latest IntelliJ 2023.3 that was released on December 2nd. As of yesterday afternoon the Flutter Plugin is again working. Not a moment too soon either, I needed all my Flutter tools again so had to find a 2023.2 install that morning only to find the update pushed out a few hours later :). #flutter#IntelliJ#JetBrains
I've been experimenting with Riverpod a lot the last couple weeks and am now ready to try it in a greenfield project I've been meaning to write for some time. In lieu of a good design patterns/best practices book (if one exists I haven't found it anyway) I've been doing as best homework I can with finding videos/blog posts and little side experiments. One thing I discovered earlier this week was nested providers which I was thinking I may want to use to replace another idiom I had been using of having a provider that takes an item ID. Based on this presentation by @randalschwartz it sounds like that is not the way to go. In the video he does show how to do various scoping, both literal scope and logical scope, of providers in Riverpod. #riverpod#flutter#DartLang The Riverpod "Global" Myth
@cliftonlabrum When I first started Flutter and couldn't get my head wrapped around state management Riverpod was the new hotness and I just couldn't get there. I did get my head wrapped around Provider. When I wrote this post series to show how flexible Dart and Flutter were for deployment targets I had no choice but to use something other than Provider since there were non-Flutter implementations. I decided to give Riverpod a second try and really liked it.
The best part of #flutter dev... the app runs in the browser too lol. Not sure if I'll release a browser based version.. but at least it's great for testing.
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The #WebP buffer overflow bug that caused all the major browsers to issue patches earlier this week (e.g. #Firefox 117.0.1) also affects applications built with Electron. #1Password issued an update today for their Mac build.
The CVE affects the underlying webp library, not just web browsers, so this will be an ongoing issue.
"Who uses #libwebp?
"There are a lot of applications that use libwebp to render WebP images, I already mentioned a few of them, but some of the others that I know include: #Affinity (the design software), #Gimp, Inkscape [not according to Martin Owens, see comment below], #LibreOffice, #Telegram, #Thunderbird (now patched), #ffmpeg, and many, many #Android applications as well as cross-platform apps built with #Flutter."
Speaking of IntelliJ updates, I do hate when the Flutter or Dart Plugins are broken right after a release...like they apparently are today. I often wonder if it is an overly stringent version check or a legitimate problem. Thankfully today I can just get by on CLI and using IntelliJ just for the editor. #flutter#DartLang#JetBrains#IntelliJ
Doing Flutter coding with a recording of a presentation on an Apple II project given on an Apple II at the conference. Thanks to modern VGA/HDMI adapters that can plug into the video port of the Apple //c that was actually feasible apparently. Talk about a range of performance requirements :) #RetroComputing#Apple2Forever#flutter