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by timsneath 5y ago
I'm not sure what your bar is for "experimental", but Flutter is one of the most popular UI toolkits out there, with many 100m+ MAU apps using it, including tens from Google itself. It's already shipped a 2.0 release, ha
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by timsneath 6y ago
Ironically, the solutions prescribed here are themselves virtue signaling: in that they do nothing to actually right the wrongs of the past. As a practical way to help, I want to call out organizations like DonorsChoose. Find a Title I scho
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by timsneath 6y ago
You're right! This isn't an exhaustive listing of the features in Flutter 2 or changes since Flutter 1.12 (which was our last stable release). For that, there's a separate article: https://medium.com/flutter&#
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by timsneath 6y ago
Yes, we consider accessibility a must-have feature. On the web, we have a second DOM tree called the SemanticsNode tree, which is generated in parallel to the RenderObject DOM tree. The SemanticsNode tree translates the flags, actions, labe
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by timsneath 6y ago
We actually have two distinct approaches: the CanvasKit/WebAssembly approach you mention for high-intensity graphics, and an HTML-based renderer for other apps. This article has more details: https://medium.com/flutter&
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by timsneath 6y ago
Yeah, that's running in development mode, since it's a scratchpad for live coding. Try something like https://flutterplasma.dev for an example of Flutter's web support when compiled in release mode.
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by timsneath 6y ago
Screen reader should always be a concern! But we built accessibility as a core feature of Flutter from the start. You can read about our support for screen readers here: https://flutter.dev/docs/development/accessi
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by timsneath 6y ago
Disclosure: I'm on the Flutter team. According to AppAnnie, most of these are using Flutter on iOS too: WeChat, Alibaba, Grab, Nubank, Sonos all show up on their list of Flutter-powered apps on the Apple appstore. We don't capture
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by timsneath 6y ago
Disclosure: I'm on the Flutter team. We capture a small amount of analytics from the developer tool itself, primarily to help us spot and fix crashes as well as to help us improve the tooling. Completely anonymous, we prompt you on ins
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by timsneath 6y ago
Another interesting external metric is StackOverflow, which suggests a fast rise in developer interest for Flutter, relative to other technologies aiming at this space: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=flutter%
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[Disclosure: I work on the team] With well over 100,000 apps in the Play Store alone, from companies like Grab, eBay, Alibaba and Betterment; as well as copious usage by Google's own apps like Google Pay and integration into the Home H
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The performance benefits of sound null types(medium.com)
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I'm curious whether this actually solves the problem. I understand how this assists with reproducibility of packages, but the R software itself is updated frequently, as is briefly noted in the preamble to this document. Indeed, the re
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by timsneath 6y ago
Yeah. Clearly one team at Apple feels (or felt) that the name was no impediment to them marketing it. Like all corporations, Apple is just a congregation of human beings, rather than a synchronized hive mind. But it's problematic if ap
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by timsneath 6y ago
Yet in most of their categories, they _are_ the top of the line. There often aren't better choices (across some reasonable definition of 'better') available for those who want to pay more. I can't think of a Macbook alte
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by timsneath 6y ago
What a fantastic tip. Thanks for sharing!
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Graphical User Interface Using Flutter in Embedded Systems [pdf](static.sched.com)
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Flutter for Windows Alpha(medium.com)
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by timsneath 6y ago
Quick note here: we're investing in both pretty heavily. Google has a fair amount of pedigree on the web, so it's highly attractive to us to have web support, but we're paying close attention to the attention that desktop is
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Windows Fun with Dart FFI(medium.com)
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Flutter Architectural Overview(flutter.dev)
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Flutter 1.20(medium.com)
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by timsneath 6y ago
I can imagine two priority devices for them to feature from the start: - A super-lightweight 12" Macbook-like device that lets them demonstrate how Apple Silicon opens up new categories and form factors: small, powerful and amazing bat
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by timsneath 6y ago
Yes, totally. But the topic is “regulating technology”. In general this space is evolving far faster than oil or building codes, and regulating innovation is much harder than regulating established standards.
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Historically, companies as well as individuals respond well to economic incentive (both positive and negative). As an example from a different industry, carbon credits have created a market that encourages and rewards green activity; taxati
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I wouldn't say that. But doing _something_ isn't automatically better than doing nothing, particularly when the tools are blunt and those wielding them are inexpert in the domain to which they're being applied. There are no e
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The challenges for regulation are two-fold, in my opinion: 1. It just doesn't work. Legal and regulatory solutions are too slow and poorly designed to be effective, see for example the EU browser consent decree applied to Internet Expl
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One of the big attractions for Dart is that it compiles to native ARM code on iOS and Android, compiles to Intel code for (today's) desktop platforms, and transpiles to JavaScript for the web. There are other high-level languages that
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by timsneath 6y ago
I don't know if you realize, but abebooks are a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon: https://www.abebooks.com/about -- so this is like protesting Facebook by setting up an Instagram account.
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Even in the best case where you get something that is superficially what you ordered, you have a sneaking feeling that you're getting something counterfeit: https://twitter.com/timsneath/status/128682168296805

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