I’m excited about Flutter and the move into it’s production phase – I’ve been using and learning it for two years and this was great to see. I was surprise to learn that Rive, an animation tool in beta, was built with Flutter. It’s also powering Supercell (a video game company my kids love) which runs as smooth as anything I’ve used on my phone. Other name drops were Universal Studios and a billion users on WeChat. Flutter began in 2018 and is now used in a number of companies and open-source for anyone to use/learn. It’s supported by Google and has a number of services available through Firebase like cloud hosting, databases, authorization, and a few more. Those services start with freemium and rise (reasonably) based on what your project requires.
I just went to another Flutter meetup in Woodstock, GA. There are others and it’s good to connect with others that speak the language – I highly encourage finding a group or event and attending it in person or online. It’s a great, free resource that can help you get started. Be sure to ask questions and use the documentation to get started if you’re new – heads up, it involves installing an IDE and the Flutter program on your system. Experience with the terminal would come in handy.
It took me a hot minute to learn that the person being interviewed was the lead singer of Weezer we missed the first 7 minutes due to whatever happened at the beginning of the presentation on YouTube.
One thing that stood out, for me, is the support for WASM and also the improvement in graphic rendering.
