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This week in Flutter #12
Google hosted the Games Developers Summit 2021 this week. There is not much about Flutter, but some talks might be useful for Flutter developers as well. For instance, Personalizing your app in real-time: Powered by Firebase and ML, or What’s new for Firebase LiveOps.
Let me know if there was some other talk that you found interesting.
- Michele Volpato
Do you ever wonder why sometimes you set the width of a container and nothing changes in your layout? That is because you did not understand constraints. Learn about constraints in Flutter in this article by Dany Tulumidis.
Did you know you can prevent the device screen from going into sleep mode directly from your Flutter app? I did not. Here is a very short tutorial on how to do it by Johannes Milke.
A deep and detailed article by Andrea Bizzotto on Flutter animations. In the article, he discusses implicit animations, tweens, explicit animations, and built-in explicit transition widgets. He also provides an app you can download to showcase all the animations shown in the article, and more. Definitely recomended.
We have all written
Padding(
padding: EdgeInsets.all(16.0),
child: ...
...But should we be using const?
Padding(
padding: const EdgeInsets.all(16.0),
child: ...
...In this article, Kefeh Collins teaches us about the const keyword, what it represents, and when we should use it.
[...]
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