Abel Anderson is a graduate from the Mobile App Program St. Clair College, and works as an Android and Flutter Developer while pursuing further education at the University of Windsor. During this workshop, Abel will be discussing the key features of Flutter, showing you how to get started with app development, and giving out tips and tricks he has picked up while doing real-world projects.

1. Flutter 101
Abel Anderson
GDSC Tech Lead
October 21 2022 | 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Erie 3123

2. What is Flutter?
At a Glance
● Framework Created by Google
● Cross-platform (Mobile, Web, Desktop)
● Uses the Dart Programming Language

3. Flutter Throughout the
Years
2015 2017 2020 2021 2022
Flu er unveiled Major improvements to iOS Linux & MacOS suppo
Version 1.0 release O cially suppo s web

4. ● Easy adoption
● Single codebase
● Faster development
● High level of customization
Features

5. ● Best used for Cross-platform apps
● Hard to find support for low-level features
● Companies that use Flutter:
■ Alibaba
■ Google Pay
■ BMW
■ Stadia
■ Ebay
Real Life Applications

6. ● Improving Developer experience
● Stabilizing Desktop & Web Support
● Upgrading the Material Library to Support Material 3
● Improving Dart, reducing Jank, etc.
Future Development

7. Demo Time!

8. An Overview
● Flutter is a single threaded Framework
● Isolates create a completely separate thread
● Isolates cannot communicate with the app directly
Multithreading

9. ● flutter_bloc / flutter_cubit
■ State management
● Hive
■ No SQL Database
● path_provider, permission_handler, cached_network_image
● And many, many, more…
Popular Libraries
And their uses…

10. Questions?
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