In a recent tweet, Dinko makes an excellent point about much of our Dart ecosystem being comprised of “hobby project[s]” and having “limited support.” He’s not wrong and that applies to Flutter as well. Most of the Flutter ecosystem is driven by passionate OSS developers. And that passion drives different devs to do different things — some like the code, some like the samples, some like the docs, some like the support and some just like to publish a package right out of flutter create and then move on with their day.

A little while ago, I was inspired by Thorsten’s blog post on building an AI Agent using Rust to build an AI Agent using Dart. The combination of a conversation with Gemini and a set of tools allowed us to build an agent that could take some prompts from the user and turn them into not just responses (Ask mode), but actions (Agent mode!). In the spirit of Agentic Apps month for Flutter this month, I wanted to share how to do the same thing in your Flutter app using the most recent release of the Flutter AI Toolkit.

The Python community has a library called pydantic that adds type checking at run-time to a dynamically typed language. The library allows them to be “pedantic” about type validation in Python aka pydantic; get it? : )

To say that there has been a lot of activity in the AI space for developers lately would be an understatement. As we transition from “Ask” mode in our AI-based dev tooling to “Agent” mode, it’s easy to see agents as something magical.

Hello, again, and welcome to another installment of “Flutter + AI = Joy.” In today’s episode, we’re taking a behind-the-scenes look at the design and implementation of the generative AI features in the latest version of DartPad. Before we get started, if you haven’t already read Amanda’s most excellent blog post for an overview of the new functionality, I recommend starting there.

It has been quite an exciting few years since I left Google in 2022. I had been on the Flutter team for 3 years by that point, helping it go from v1.0 to v3.0, from hundreds of thousands of users to millions. It was exciting, but time for a change. And boy did I get some! Over the next 3 years I did the following:

Do you have some free time? Are you excited to get involved in the Dart and Flutter ecosystem? Then have I got a deal for you!

NOTE: This content has been subsumed by the package I wrote to support declarative routing via the Navigation 2.0 API: go_router. This package is what I use now for my own projects and I hope that you’ll find it useful for your projects as well. Enjoy.

Lately I’ve been working on a little side project with a friend of mine and I’m the coder, so I get to pick the tech I want for the implementation. My choice is easy: Flutter! We’re targeting the web with our project for two reasons: 1) it makes distribution easy and 2) it enables us to do social media marketing with deep links to content that gets people to come to the site, sign up, … profit!

If you’re a Dart programmer, the curl command doesn’t really help you. Oh, it can tease you with of its wonderful functionality, but you still have to take anything you can do with curl and manually translate it into Dart code.