Meetup 73: [Online] The Flutter Clock Challenge fail. What I Learned

[Online] The Flutter Clock Challenge fail. What I Learned
May 21st, 2020
Sponsor: ILM Professional Services

Join us for our virtual online only event sponsored by ILM Professional Services. This is a FREE event and a great opportunity for networking and the latest insights in mobile development.

RSVP Here: Minnesota Enterprise Mobile

May Topic – The Flutter Clock Challenge fail. What I Learned

Encore
Recently there was a contest for the mobile development framework from Google called Flutter. I didn’t win this contest. I didn’t even submit an entry as I couldn’t get past some setup and code issues. What I did get however was 3 weeks of intense self study on Flutter reverse engineering another clock application line by line.

I came away from this experience with a ton of lessons learned that I plan to share with the audience such as:

• The Dart language and it’s peculiarities.
• Usage of the Stateless and Stateful widgets in Flutter
• How the Canvas graphics api works in Flutter including customizing graphics

Attendees will leave this session with the knowledge of the common gotcha’s in Flutter that I experienced and enough ground level knowledge of Flutter to start their own application.

Presented by William Austin
William Austin is an independent Consultant for v3 Solutions. He is currently a Technical Architect remotely with AgileThought in Tampa, Florida. In his professional career he has led teams large and small – providing coaching, mentoring and architectural guidance. He has been working with the Microsoft stack primarily, but strives to keep abreast of mobile and front end technologies as well. He is one of the co-organizers of the .NET User Group and is active in the Twin Cities development community.

About the Group
Led by local developers, the Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group is a place to come together to share knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned with the development community regarding enterprise mobile development, with a focus on mobile cross-platform application development and the Xamarin toolset. Our goal is to cover all areas of the Enterprise Mobile landscape.

Thursday, May 21st
5:30 – 6:00pm: Social time
6:00 – ~7:30pm: Presentation and discussion

** This is an online only virtual meeting. We are NOT meeting in person in Edina. **

Sponsored by ILM Professional Services.