Hey! this is Overpass Insights my name is Eric and
I make apps now today I want to talk about Google IO 2022 and Flutter 3.
alright! so a couple of weeks ago we had Google IO 2022 it's one of my favorite times of the year
to watch that keynote to find out what's going to be new in Android what's going to be doing
Firebase what's going to be doing Flutter and all that kind of stuff and it totally passed me
by I totally missed it I don't know what I've been doing I've just been so busy with client work that
I totally missed google IO so I spent the weekend catching up watching a lot of those those talks a
lot of those speeches what's new in Flutter what's new in Firebase all this kind of stuff what's new
in native Android although as a cross-platform developer, I don't pay so much attention to what's
new in native Android unless it's also available in Flutter because a lot of the time we do client
work I don't do native so much I was always I usually do Flutter or I do Xamarin and last year
I've been leaning a lot towards Xamarin and now I see what's in Flutter 3
and it got me a lot more excited about I got shiny object syndrome where the squirrel
hey, wait they got desktop support now like so just today I'm doing a quote for a project
that I did all in Xamarin forms for a client and they want a Windows app so I could do a UWP app
which I've been quoting on trying
to have some connection issues and everything like
that and there's like some things that don't quite port over really well and I keep thinking if I'd
done this in Flutter I'd be set now because we have you know not just support for Windows
but we also have support for Linux desktop and Mac OS desktop and everything like that it's
a lot of the announcements that came out this last week are just you know I thought they were
really good so I finally you know I started okay let me just do like a quick desktop application
see what this is like and it was like I'm really impressed with the experience now like last year
when I was playing around with Flutter 2 when Flutter Webb was kind of like you know when it's
finally released you know you're messing around with the pucks pub spec.yaml file all this kind
of stuff, it was just a bit messy and now you got a lot more command-line tools and everything like
that you know just being able to put things in there and not have to you know which is the
most current version which version conflicts with whatever and I was like really impressed with this
kind of stuff so I'm kind of okay you know now I'm like looking at flutter as if like-kind of move
over to it and now they have desktop support too so and not just windows but they've got
Linux and Mac OS too so I think it's I think that's pretty awesome so you know
I just wanted to address it because a lot of times like because I totally missed it I didn't want you
guys to miss it if you guys like you know you're
into your mobile development and you just you know
you watch this channel but you kind of missed the announcements for you know what was doing
what was doing Firebase a lot of stuff with like deployment stuff it wasn't like stuff that I
couldn't see myself ever using but it was kind of stuff was like it wasn't as exciting as Flutter
a few years ago I made a video about how I think like dart and Flutter may be the
language that rules them all and it seems like they're definitely moving in that direction
my one big problem with Flutter my one big thing that
I consider Xamarin to have an advantage over flutter in terms of cross-platform development
is that doing plug-ins is not necessary it's not difficult right it's easy to use native
language in the individual projects to you know like the dot-net port is a lot more
tight like you could do like your plugins in C sharp as well whereas in Flutter I think you
pretty much have to go into native code but you know that's the same as a lot of other
cross-platform frameworks but you know let me know what you guys think about Flutter let me
know if you disagree with me you guys might just think Eric you're just talking about your butt
like that's nothing new you know are you guys excited about Flutter also the improved AdMob
support and everything like that is also like a really good feature so I'm like really you
know I got these projects that I'm like you know 30% of the way through on I'm like oh do I really
want to tear everything up and go back and start these over again and I think I might anyway let
me know what you guys think about Flutter 3 about the Google IO announcements and
you know I'd be issues here what you guys have to think so I hope you guys have a really
good day today I'm gonna try to do more videos this week so you know just bear with me I hope
you guys have a great day have a great week stay healthy stay safe and I'll talk to you next time