Flutter 101 Podcast

Mahtab Tadayon is a Google Developer Expert for Flutter and Dart, and she is the founder of the popular Flutter Explained YouTube channel. She shared her story about how she switched from industrial engineering to software development and became a Google Developer Expert. Guest: Mahtab Tadayon @mahtab_dev@mt-tadayon@mahtab-tadayonFlutter Explained flutter-explained.devFlutter ExplainedFlutter Explained@flutter_expHost: Vince...

In this episode, my guest is Waleed Arshad and we talk about state management in Flutter. Waleed is Pakistan’s first Google Developer Expert in Flutter and GDE in Dart. He’s the author of the book “Managing State in Flutter Pragmatically: Discover how to adopt the best state management approach for scaling your Flutter app“. At the time of recording this episode, I couldn’t read the book yet, it wasn’t public yet, but since we recorded I bought the book and read most of it, and I can only...

In this episode, my guest is Waleed Arshad and we talk about state management in Flutter. Waleed is Pakistan’s first Google Developer Expert in Flutter and GDE in Dart. He’s the author of the book “Managing State in Flutter Pragmatically: Discover how to adopt the best state management approach for scaling your Flutter app“. We talked about why state management is such a hot topic amongst Flutter developers and we talked about different state management options: setState, InheritedWidget,...

Sarah Fullmer is an aerospace engineer turned software developer, Flutter Community Manager at Google on the Flutter Developer Relations team. We talked about the Flutter Apprentice giveaway and book club, the Flutter Meetup Network, the Flutteristas community, and more. Guest: Sarah Fullmer @FullmerS@fullmers@fullmersarahHost: Vince Varga @vincevargadev@vincevargadev@vincevargadevvincevarga.dev@flutter101devOther resources flutter.dev/apprentice-giveawayflutteristas.orgFlutter Meetup...

In this episode, I talked to Maksim Lin. Maks is a Google Developer Expert in Flutter, and he’s an Android and Flutter Developer. He’s a passionate contributor, user, and supporter of open-source software. He’s also a regular speaker at technical conferences and local developer group meetups. Today, we are going to talk about isolates, isolate groups, the actor model, improvements and limitations of isolates, concurrency, and we will even talk a little bit about "the soul of Erlang and...

Today, I wanted to share with you a very interesting open-source project, Widgetbook. My guest is Lucas Josefiak and he is the co-founder of Widgetbook. Widgetbook is "an open-source tool for organizing widgets in Flutter. It helps developers cataloging their widgets, testing them quickly on multiple devices and themes, and sharing them easily with designers and clients". It’s a problem that I probably faced at every team and project I worked on, and on some teams, we even tried to...

In this episode, I talked to David DeRemer, the Founder and President of Very Good Ventures. VGV, Very Good Ventures, is a global Flutter development consultancy. Their work and apps were featured on multiple global Flutter events, for example, they built the first major Flutter desktop app, the Flutter slides app for Flutter Live 18, as well as the Google I/O photo booth app, the multiplatform New York Times KENKEN game, and the Hamilton app. I talked to David about Very Good Ventures, why...

In this episode, I talked to Maksim Lin. Maks is a Google Developer Expert in Flutter, and he’s an Android and Flutter Developer. He’s a passionate contributor, user, and supporter of open-source software. He’s also a regular speaker at technical conferences and local developer group meetups. I invited Maks to chat as I saw a very interesting post written by him about WASM, and Dart. In this episode, we will clarify what WebAssembly is and why it is important for Flutter and Dart...

Miguel Beltran is a Freelance Software Developer Consultant for Android, Flutter, Kotlin, and Firebase products. Kai Koenig is a Web and Mobile Software and Solutions Architect. In this episode, we talked about Raygun and how Kai and Miguel developed Raygun's crash reporting Flutter SDK, as well as Miguel's and Kai's plans for future releases. Raygun provides you with "actionable, real-time insights into the quality and performance of your web and mobile apps". With Raygun, you can...

In this short episode, I talked to Anna Metelska. Anna is a community manager at Geekle. She's responsible for the Flutter and React communities. We talked about the last summit during the summer, what goes on behind the scenes, and we also talked about the upcoming Flutter Global Summit'21 Volume 2. The summit is on 8-9th of December. Guest: Anna Metelska @Anna_Metelska@anna-metelskaResources Flutter Global Summit'21 Volume 2Become a speaker at the Flutter Global Summit'21 Volume...

My guest today is Vincenzo Palazzo. He's an open-source developer from Italy. We talked about his past experience with Java, Kotlin, Swing, and he shared what he thinks about Flutter and Dart. Vincenzo also talked about how he approaches app development, how he finds projects to work on, how he learns new concepts, and how he practices new technologies. Guest: Vincenzo Palazzo @PalazzoVincenzo@vincenzopalazzo@palazzovincenzoHost: Vince...

In this episode, my guest is Nils Reichardt. Nils is a 20-year-old developer and entrepreneur from Germany. I reached out to Nils and invited him to talk about his experience with integrations test, Firebase Test Lab with Flutter, and GitHub Actions. Nils shared his current testing approach that is a mixture of different testing methods, such as unit tests, widget tests, golden tests, and integration tests. We discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches. For...

Chris Sells is a Senior Product Manager at Google on Flutter. Chris is responsible for the end-to-end development experience, as well as tooling, the package ecosystem, and the desktop platform support. Flutter on the desktop is getting more popular day every day, though it is (unsurprisingly) behind mobile and web in popularity. Flutter's desktop support allows you to compile Flutter source code to a native Windows, macOS, or Linux desktop app. We also talked about the Flutter Favorite...

My guest today is Leo Farias. Leo is the creator of the wildly popular FVM open-source tool. He is the CEO and co-founder of Concepta Inc and CTO and co-founder of FanHero. FVM stands for Flutter Version Management. FVM is a simple CLI tool to manage different versions of the Flutter SDK: "FVM helps with the need for consistent app builds by allowing to reference Flutter SDK version used on a per-project basis. It also allows you to have multiple Flutter versions installed to quickly...

My guest in this episode is Kevin Moore. Kevin is a Product Manager at Google working on Dart and Flutter. In one of the last episodes of the Flutter 101 podcast, I talked to Ryan Knell, the author of the Alfred package. Kevin, who works as Product Manager at Google, listened to the episode. He then shared on Twitter, that he would love to come on and explain more about his thoughts on pkg:shelf and Dart on the server and CLI. Of course, I invited him immediately! Most people know Dart as...

My guest today is Sakina Abbas. Sakina is a Google Developers Expert for Flutter, co-founder and CEO of Reactree. In this episode, we focused on background services: typical usage, application lifecycle, isolates, platform restrictions. We also talked about how Sakina could leverage her Android skills when switching to Flutter, how she started giving tech talks focusing on Flutter, how she became Google Developers Expert, and we also talked about how she co-founded Reactree ("Mobile & Web...

Oh, hello there! In this episode, I responded to a message from a listener. He asked me if I have any tips on what he should focus on in order to get his first job as a Flutter developer. I collected some of my ideas on how I would go about getting my first job as a software developer with Flutter. There are many ways to improve your chances, first obvious advice is to learn Flutter well. You can build your portfolio where you demonstrate to potential employers that you know how to use...

In this episode of the Flutter 101 Podcast, I talked to Ryan Knell. Ryan is the author of the performant, Express.js-like server framework Alfred written in Dart. We discussed how Ryan decided to write Alfred and his previous experience with alternative backend option for Dart, such as Aqueduct, Angel, and Shelf, and why he thinks Dart could be the Node.js "killer". We talked about how you deploy Dart applications, how you can connect to different databases from your Dart backend server,...

In this episode, I talked to Allen Wyma. Allen Wyma is the host of the "Flying High with Flutter" podcast, and a panelist on the Elixir Mix podcast. He also founded a consulting agency, Plangora. We briefly talked about different technologies, such as Rust, Elixir, Erlang, React Native, Apache Cordova, and more. Allen also shared his opinion on Dart on the backend, Flutter on the desktop and on the web. He then shared his tips for beginners. We also discussed why state management is such...

In this episode, I talked about the evolution of the Dart programming language. The Dart language improves greatly from release to release. Since 2.0, Dart has a sound type system. Since then, many valuable features were added to the language, for example int-to-double conversion, set literals, as well as operators to improve code that performs list manipulation: the spread operator, collection if and for operators. Extension methods were a great addition to the language and they enable you...