Tag: Dart

Google is ramping up the development of the Fuchsia OS. While it remains the primary author of Fuchsia, it is now opening up more parts of the OS's development to the public. Interested developers can take a peek at the open source project's bug tracker, for example, and can even submit patches.

Google also made public the project's roadmap to prove that it isn't simply a skunkworks endeavor. Interestingly, a lot of it involves a "version 2" of the operating system's major components, indicating that the current state of the project is far from the form that Google has envisioned for it.

We can also expect Fuchsia on Nest speakers to Fuchsia, with new models hinted for 2023. Everything shows that Fuchsia can start its popularity soon.

Flutter 3.3 has been announced, introducing important updates towards its essential goal: a true cross-platform app development toolkit covering mobile, web, desktops or as authors aim - any device with a display.

As reported by several independent sources, Samsung is involved in the development of Fuschsia OS, and recent reports suggest the company is ready to ditch Android entirely and switch to the new system. Of course, such a shift would take years and the two systems would coexist for a long time. We cannot expect Samsung to take such a big risk overnight, because if Fuchsia OS does not work out, may bury the entire mobile department of the manufacturer.

The Nest Hub Max may soon be switched to Fuchsia — Google’s homegrown operating system as internal testing ramps up. Earlier this year, Google took the bold step of updating existing first-gen Nest Hub smart displays from their Linux-based Cast OS to the company’s long-in-development Fuchsia operating system.

At this point, there’s no way to know how long it will be before retail Nest Hub Max devices will be updated with Fuchsia, if at all. If things follow the pattern of the original Nest Hub, Fuchsia will be made available first to those in the Preview Program in the Google Home app.

Flame is a modular Flutter game engine that provides a complete set of solutions for games. Provides you with a simple implementation of the game cycle and the necessary functions that you may need in the game, like input, images, sprites, animation, collision detection, and a component system, which is called Flame Component System (abbreviated FCS).

News for flutter:

• Flutter apps now more performant, use less memory and startups faster.
• Performance testing are easier with new DartDevTools and profiling features
• Casual game development with Flame v.1.0.0
• It easier than ever to connect apps to back-end services(Firebase and Google Cloud)
• Authentication with Firebase are much easier than before.
• Major updates for flutter ecosystem(Like FlutterSVG, and etc)

News for Dart:

• Fast concurrency with worker isolates
• Constructor tear-offs
• Improved enums in the dart:core library
• Dart DevTools included in the Dart SDK
• New pub features for package publishers
• Compressed pointers (approximately 10% reduction of the Dart heap size)

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What's new in flutter 2.8?

Announcing flutter 2.8

Announcing Dart 2.15

Isolates spawned via the Isolate.spawn() API are now grouped, operate on the same managed heap and can therefore share various VM-internal data structures.

This leads to ~100x faster isolate startup latency, ~10-100x lower per-isolate base memory overhead and ~8x faster inter-isolate communication.

Dart 2.15 is now available in the flutter beta channel, more details can be found here: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

The Flutter Meetup Network (FMN) is an international network of Meetup groups united by their enthusiasm for Flutter. The FMN program mission is to foster a thriving worldwide community of Flutter developers by empowering community organizers to educate and inspire local communities with engaging events.

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Flutter has reached the technology maturity state which speeds up the interest and adoption of this cross-platform app development framework. What are the key factors of its success and still existing concerns against it?

Flutter is now the most popular framework for cross-platform development.

Flutter 2.2 Announcement

Google IO run in May 2021, and we met Flutter 2.2 announcement with fresh updates. More details come with the well known official blog, by this post let's try to extract takeaways.