Dart News & Updates

Google I/O is happening in Mountain View this week. Here’s what you shouldn't miss if you're coming, or if you're following I/O from home. Figure 1: One of the Flutter apps that will be live-coded on stage. You will also be able to build it in one of the codelabs. Session: Prototyping to Production : Bridging the Gap with a Common Tool  by Fiona Yeung and David Yang Friday, 8:30am PDT Design and engineering collaboration is difficult but vital for iterative user-centered product development. Join us (a designer and UI developer) as we use the Flutter UI framework to evolve a UI concept from prototype to production code. You'll leave this talk with a deeper understanding of how to bridge the gap between designers and UI developers through a prototyping-centric workflow, and why using a single framework between designers and developers helps your team work more efficiently. Session: Single Codebase, Two Apps  with Flutter and Firebase  by Emily Shack ...

AngularDart 3.0 is now available. It brings better performance and smaller generated code, while also making you more productive. Version 3.0 is an evolution: although it has some breaking changes (detailed below), it is a smooth upgrade due to minimal public API adjustments. Most of the progress is under the hood—in code quality, stability, generated code size, performance, and developer experience. Code quality: 2731  instances of making the framework code more type safe (using sound Dart ). The AngularDart framework code size is down by 12% . Many additional style updates to the codebase: Changed to use idiomatic <T> for generic methods. Removed NgZoneImpl , all the code exists in NgZone now. Stability: Many CSS encapsulation fixes due to update with csslib package. Fixed bugs with IE11. Performance: For the Mail sample app, we see 30%  faster time-to-interactive (currently 3812 ms on a simulated 3G connection, measured via Lighthouse ). Our large ...