May has come to an end and, as every month, we bring you the latest news and updates about the Flutter Community, its technology, and, of course, our amazing Somnio team.?
Flutter News???
Flutter’s Community had multiple news and events in May, and here – in Somnio in the Loop – we intend to keep you up-to-date every month. Let’s dive right in!?
#Flutter 3.10 was launched during the Google IO conference, with improved performance and many new features to try out. Some of them were:
- Better support for machine learning and AI??
- New widgets for building responsive layouts
- Camera X support on Android
- Support for augmented reality
- Accessibility features for an inclusive user experience
- Impeller has a new animation library for building apps
#Dart 3 was also released, full of upgrades and better features, such as:?
- Improved tooling and new language features
- Null safety by default
- New libraries to facilitate the app development process
- The new Google Mobile Ads Flutter plugin was announced, enabling you to place ads such as AdMob, AdSense, or Google Ad Manager on your Flutter apps.?
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Tim Sneath
announced his departure from Flutter, so he will no longer be the Director of Product and UX for Flutter & Dart. However, he certainly will be remembered by the entire Flutter community for his dedication and effort in growing the technology and the community of talented developers around it. Thank you Tim for all these years! Here you can read the blog post he wrote bidding farewell.
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Flutter Dev
shared a new set of YouTube videos hosted by
Craig Labenz
called “Flutter Build Show”. In this series, Craig explains different topics related to Flutter app development. You can check them out by clicking here.?
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谷歌
I/O Connect was held in Miami on May 24th, the event’s purpose was to share the news of the main Google I/O event with people related to Google, GDEs, and other members of the community.?
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Fluttercon
, one of the biggest Flutter events, is just around the corner and many speakers were announced, you can check them out here. Gianfranco Papa, our CTO, will be speaking at the event about “Powering your Flutter Apps with gRPC”.?
- Flutter and Firebase communities join in to host a “Flutter Firebase Festival” in Prague on September (26-27). An event to share the latest techniques and trends in app development, check it out here.??
Somnio News ??
- Google I/O, the most prominent
谷歌
conference, was held this month! At the Somnio House, we watched it with the team and were amazed by all the news and updates of Flutter’s technology and the AI launches. We even made a Somnio in the Loop special edition to share the main news about Flutter announced during the event, you can check it out here.
- Our CTO,
Gianfranco Papa
, was part of Spring’s edition of
Mobius — mobile development conference
talking about “Going Full Stack with Dart”. Congrats Gian for another great talk!
- Part of the team went karting and had an amazing time! The race winners even had prizes to motivate them during the race ???
Blogs ??
May brought some new awesome blogs from our team!? Would you like to read them? Check them out on our web page by clicking here ??
Wrapping up
This month's news and events were mainly about Flutter's new features announced at Google I/O, and we are super excited to test them in all of our new projects.?
Looking ahead, our team is ready to take off to Toronto, Canada for Collision ?? So stay tuned to learn more about this exciting tech event. Check back soon!
