Flutter 101 Podcast

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

• Twitter @PalazzoVincenzo
• GitHub @vincenzopalazzo
• LinkedIn @palazzovincenzo

Host: Vince Varga

• Twitter @vincevargadev
• GitHub @vincevargadev
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Most relevant past episodes from Flutter 101

• Background Services with Sakina Abbas (Episode 13): Sakina Abbas is a Google Developers Expert for Flutter, co-founder and CEO of Reactree. In this episode, we talked about background services.
• Get your first Flutter job with Vince Varga (Episode 12): In this episode, Vince Varga responds to a listener's question and shares his tips on getting your first Flutter job with limited experience.
• Flying High with Flutter and Allen Wyma (Episode 10): Allen Wyma, the host of Flying High with Flutter, and I talked about Flutter, different cross-platform technologies, Flutter on the desktop, Elixir, Erlang, Rust, and many more.

Mentioned packages

• pub.dev/packages/get_it - Simple direct Service Locator that allows to decouple the interface from a concrete implementation and to access the concrete implementation from everywhere in your App

Other resources

• github.com/vincenzopalazzo/material-ui-swing - A modern, Material Design UI for Java Swing
• Swing (Java) on Wikipedia - Swing is a GUI widget toolkit for Java. It is part of Oracle's Java Foundation Classes (JFC) – an API for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for Java programs.
• JMARS - JMARS is an acronym that stands for Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing. It is a geospatial information system (GIS) developed by ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility to provide mission planning and data-analysis tools to NASA scientists, instrument team members, students of all ages and the general public.
• Lightning network - Lightning is a decentralized network using smart contract functionality in the blockchain to enable instant payments across a network of participants.
• github.com/ElementsProject/lightning - A Lightning Network implementation in C

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 the language behind Flutter. Flutter code is powered by the world-class Dart platform, which enables compilation to 32-bit and 64-bit ARM machine code for iOS and Android, as well as JavaScript for the web and Intel x64 for desktop devices.

Dart is also used for tooling, as command-line apps, running web servers, and more. pub.dev is also running on Dart and it's serving millions! It's a great match as a backend language for teams and developers who already write Flutter. If your Flutter app needs a backend or you need to glue some services together, Dart is a great match.

We talked about how you can run Dart in the cloud today. You can use Cloud Run’s container support, combined with Dart’s Docker images, to run server-side Dart code.

We briefly talked about the Functions Framework that makes it easy to write Dart functions instead of server applications for handling web requests. Using the framework, you can create functions that handle HTTP requests and CloudEvents and deploy your Dart functions to Google Cloud.

Lastly, we also talked about command-line apps, and Kevin shared his tips on which packages can improve your development experience while writing and using Dart on the command line.

Guest: Kevin Moore

• Twitter @kevmoo
• GitHub @kevmoo
• LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/kevmoo
• Reddit @kevmoo
• Medium @kevmoo

Host: Vince Varga

• Twitter @vincevargadev
• GitHub @vincevargadev
• LinkedIn @vincevargadev
• Web vincevarga.dev

Most relevant past episodes from Flutter 101

• Dart Server Framework Alfred with Ryan Knell (Episode 11): Ryan Knell is the author of the performant, Express.js-like Dart server framework Alfred. We talked about the state of full-stack Dart, ORMs, backend frameworks, Flutter, and many more!
• Dart on AWS Lambda and Serverless Computing with Sebastian Döll (Episode 6): We talked to Sebastian Döll (GitHub Microsoft, previously Solutions Architect at AWS) about serverless computing, the state of serverless Dart, and how he implemented a custom AWS Lambda Runtime for Dart.
• Backend and Frontend Web with Dart with Jermaine Oppong (Episode 7): We talked about backend and frontend Dart with Web Developer and YouTuber Jermaine Oppong. Shelf, Alfred, Aqueduct, Angel, AngularDart, and more.

Mentioned packages

• pub.dev/packages/shelf: A model for web server middleware that encourages composition and easy reuse
• pub.dev/packages/functions_framework: FaaS (Function as a service) framework for writing portable Dart functions
• pub.dev/packages/shelf_router: A convenient request router for the shelf web framework, with support for URL parameters, nested routers, and routers generated from source annotations
• pub.dev/packages/args: Library for defining parsers for parsing raw command-line arguments into a set of options and values using GNU and POSIX style options
• pub.dev/packages/build_cli: Parse...

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, Provider, Riverpod, Bloc, Cubit, MobX, and more. We also discussed whether choosing this or that state management library is even so important as we previously thought if we layer, design, architect our application correctly.

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 recommend it.

Guest: Waleed Arshad

• Twitter @wal_33d
• GitHub @wal33d006
• LinkedIn @waleed006
• Web wal33d006.github.io

Book: Managing State in Flutter Pragmatically

• Packt
• amazon.com
• amazon.de
• Google Books

Host: Vince Varga

• Twitter @vincevargadev
• GitHub @vincevargadev
• LinkedIn @vincevargadev
• Web vincevarga.dev
• Flutter 101 Podcast on Twitter @flutter101dev

Most relevant past episodes from Flutter 101

• RVMS architecture, get_it, commands, and more with Thomas Burkhart (Episode 3): Thomas Burkhart is a GDE for Flutter and Dart. He's the author of popular packages, like get_it, and flutter_command. We talked about the RVMS architecture.
• Flutter Development Experience with Chris Sells (Episode 16): 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.

Mentioned packages

• pub.dev/packages/provider: A wrapper around InheritedWidget to make them easier to use and more reusable.
• pub.dev/packages/bloc: A predictable state management library that helps implement the BLoC (Business Logic Component) design pattern.
• pub.dev/packages/flutter_bloc: Flutter Widgets that make it easy to implement the BLoC (Business Logic Component) design pattern. Built to be used with the bloc state management package.
• pub.dev/packages/get_it: Simple direct Service Locator that allows to decouple the interface from a concrete implementation and to access the concrete implementation from everywhere in your App
• pub.dev/packages/mobx: MobX is a library for reactively managing the state of your applications. Use the power of observables, actions, and reactions to supercharge your Dart and Flutter apps.
• pub.dev/packages/redux: Redux is a predictable state container for Dart and Flutter apps
• pub.dev/packages/binder: A lightweight, yet powerful way to bind your application state with your business logic.

Other resources

• Flutter state management for minimalists by @suragch1
• Flutter Docs: State Management

In this episode, I talked to Eric Windmill. Eric is the author of Flutter by Example, and Flutter in Action (Manning).

Guest: Eric Windmill

• Web ericwindmill.com
• Twitter @ericwindmill
• Flutter by Example flutterbyexample.com - A complete Dart and Flutter tutorial
  • "Dart and Flutter for the people. Real world examples and tutorials. And it'll always be free."
• Flutter in Action (Manning) manning.com/books/flutter-in-action
  • About: "Flutter in Action teaches you to build professional-quality mobile applications using the Flutter SDK and the Dart programming language."
• Flutter state management: quit bikeshedding

Host: Vince Varga

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• Twitter @vincevargadev
• GitHub @vincevargadev
• LinkedIn @vincevargadev

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