Flutter, the road to Fuchsia (DevFest Tarragona 2018)

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1. Flutter The road to Fuchsia
2. Once upon a time…
3. Fuchsia
4. Secretive Operative System
5. … and open source
6. Compile and run • QEMU (only Zircon UI) • Acer Switch Alpha 12 • Intel NUC (some of them) • Google Pixelbook
7. Demo!
8. Why?
9. 1. Brand new OS from expertise
10. 2. Distributed UI
11. 3. Based on the user (stories)
12. “What I would like to see is a world where... there’s multiple devices, and there’s an operating system that runs across them, and the user, therefore, runs across those devices. […] a world where software is associated with people, rather than devices” - Matias Duarte, VP of Design, Google http://www.mbhsmagnet.org/news/winter17/duarte
13. Rumor! First devices late 2019, early 2020
14. How do we start developing apps?
15. powered by Flutter
16. Flutter
17. Pros and cons of multi platform development •Single codebase (but not really) •Performance •Updated tools •Community
18. Single codebase
19. Demo!
20. Performance
21. Performance
22. And… •Hot reload •Reactive views •Modularity •Testing
23. What about updated tools?
24. https://medium.com/@xster/why-flutter-doesnt-use-oem-widgets-94746e812510
25. Community?
27. Awesome Flutter FTW! •Single codebase $$$$$ •Performance •Updated tools •Community
28. Not so fast
29. Drawbacks •Still in Alpha •No Google Maps (yet) •No push notifications (yet) •No OpenGL (long term plans) •APK size bigger
30. Golden Workaround: channels
31. NOW is the perfect time to start
33. Thank you! Questions? Rubén Serrano akelael@gmail.com meetup.com/GDG-Barcelona