Flutter, DACHFest & Berlin

Presentation given at the Flutter Study Jam in Taipei, Taiwan.

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1. Flutter, DACHFest & Berlin
   Flutter as an Android Developer
   DACHFest App: Made in one day
   Flutter and Berlin
   Lara Martín @Lariki
   Miquel Beltran @Miqubel
   

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2. About Us
   Lara Martín
   Android Developer
   Associate Android Dev. Certification
   Udacity Android Dev. Nanodegree
   Miquel Beltran
   Freelance Mobile Developer
   10+ years of experience
   

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3. What’s Mind Blowing About Flutter
   Fast
   Hot Reload
   60 fps
   Easy to Learn
   Easier than native Android
   Everything is a Widget
   Looks Good
   Material UI better than Android
   Easy to customise UI
   Nice to Code
   Easy to write tests
   Dart is easy to use
   

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4. What’s Mind Blowing About Flutter
   Fast
   Hot Reload
   60 fps
   Easy to Learn
   Easier than native Android
   Everything is a Widget
   Looks Good
   Material UI better than Android
   Easy to customise UI
   Nice to Code
   Easy to write tests
   Dart is easy to use
   

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6. Decisions and Trade-Offs
   No Architecture Pattern (?)
   Data / Domain / Presentation
   Work Split
   UI — Lara
   JSON Parsing — Miquel
   

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7. UI Implementation
   BottomNavigationBar
   Day 1
   Day 2
   Info
   Each day had 3 tabs
   Track One
   Track Two
   Workshops
   

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8. Google Play
   Same evening was available!
   Pain to register a new app
   Only 25 USD once
   Pain to create app icon
   flutter_launcher_icons
   

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9. App Store
   Provisioning Profiles (?)
   Certificates (?)
   100 USD / Year!
   Submission -> Review -> Publish
   3 DAYS!
   

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10. The App Helped!
    WiFi was not fully working in some areas
    Both iOS and Android
    80+ down. during event
    Open Source:
    https://github.com/KawaiiTech/dachfest-flutter-app
    Thank You Flutter!
    

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11. Berlin, Berlin
    3.5+ Million People
    1/6 resident has a foreign passport
    Work in English? OK!
    Blue Card: OK with CS Degree or Exp.
    

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12. Our Community
    Flutter Berlin
    Newly created, 250 members
    Monthly Events
    Women Techmakers Berlin
    Founded in 2015, +3000 members
    80+ events in 2018
    Flutter Study Jam
    Android Developers (Berlindroid)
    Founded in 2008, 1700 members
    Monthly Events
    

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13. Our Flutter Study Jam
    6 Weeks, one session of 2 hours
    Two presenters sit with a computer and live coded together
    Built a TODO App: https://github.com/FlutterStudyJam-Berlin/todo_app
    Topics: Stateless Widgets, Stateful Widgets, Material Design, Navigation
    and Networking (like Udacity’s course)
    

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14. 谢谢! Thank You!
    

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