Recently, I sat down to tweak the performance of FlutterFolio, an app that was built as a design showcase for Flutter Engage. With a single change, I made FlutterFolio significantly faster. But, first, I had to search for what to change. This article is about that search. FlutterFolio is a…

Why we rebuilt Dart DevTools from scratch in Flutter — By: Filip Hracek & Chris Sells Today, we’re releasing a new version of Dart DevTools, our suite of tools for debugging and performance analysis for Dart and Flutter code. It has been rebuilt from scratch in Flutter. …

Make your apps more stable and performant with Dart’s null safety — By: Filip Hracek & Michael Thomsen Today is a major milestone for the Dart team with the tech preview of our null safety work. Null safety helps you avoid a class of bugs that are often hard to spot, and as an added bonus enables a range of performance improvements…

Last year, I got to record one of the episodes in the Flutter Animations series, and I thought I’d publish the same content for those who prefer text over video. In the other episodes of the series, my colleagues talk about all the practical ways to build animations in…

[Emily Fortuna and Filip Hracek wrote this article together.] A big part of what makes Flutter so delightful and productive is its community. …

The Flutter framework does a good job being fast by default, but does that mean you don’t need to think about performance at all? No. It is absolutely possible to write Flutter apps that are slow. …

I recently bought a top-of-the-line gaming PC and thought I’ll spend time playing games like Far Cry: New Dawn or Battlefield V, with their multi-million-dollar graphics and ray tracing technology. Instead, I’m playing a game that looks like this: This is Dusk, a 2018 first person shooter that tries to…

Dart 2 is imminent. If you own a package on pub.dartlang.org, you might want to make sure it’s ready. Take inventory Head over to pub and search for packages associated with your email. …

[ If you’re already convinced that you want to smoke-test your Flutter samples, you can skip to “Smoke-testing Flutter” below. What follows is a general guideline applicable to any technology. ] When learning any new technology, sooner or later developers want to look at sample code. Not just a few…