Josh Burton @josh.app · 29/09/2025Great talk, would love to hear more (maybe a blog post) about optimising widget tests 030
Josh Burton @josh.app · 05/09/2025Flutter accessibility experts: How i can stop the AppBar back button being the first focused and announced widget on a page? Seems like bad UX for accessibility users. 110
Josh Burton @josh.app · 29/08/2025Anyone else having issues with Flutter 3.35 bundling assets from packages? It seems if a package is a dependency override, the assets no longer get bundled... github.com/flutter/flut...github.comFlutter 3.35 no longer bundles assets from overridden packages · Issue #174593 · flutter/flutterSteps to reproduce depend on a flutter package with assets via dependency_overrides only. Attempt to use an asset from that package Asset is unable to be found This worked on previous Flutter versi... 030
Josh Burton @josh.app · 26/07/2025Had no idea this existed! Although I don't love button click sounds... 010
Josh Burton @josh.app · 12/02/2025I'm going to miss being able to force multi-line formatting using a trailing comma, but otherwise this release looks great! 050
Josh Burton @josh.app · 07/02/2025Started using Cursor this week. Not liking VS Code but Cursor Composer can give some great results. Still need to dive into cursorrules and tweak my workflow. Really looking forward to @jetbrains.com Junie to get the same thing in Intellij! 010
Josh Burton @josh.app · 29/01/2025Yep, as long as there is still a goal to improve code generation (which there is!) 100
Josh Burton @josh.app · 23/01/2025Running a pub upgrade and then activating again seems to temporarily solve the issue. 000
Josh Burton @josh.app · 23/01/2025Anyone else had major issues using dart cli tools since dart 3.6? I have a CLI tool I develop and use daily, which is globally activated from a local source. Now I'm frequently getting the error: 'The current activation of `my_cli` cannot resolve to the same set of dependencies'. 200
Josh Burton @josh.app · 21/01/2025Looks great! Well thought out and it really does seem like this is needed. 010
Josh Burton @josh.app · 20/01/2025yeah that was me, and it does! Here's the bug report I filed: github.com/flutter/flut... Looks like a fix is underway.github.comFlutter bundles assets from all packages in a pub workspace · Issue #160142 · flutter/flutterWhen using the new pub workspaces, I've found a bug where assets from all packages are bundled in the built app, rather than assets from just the packages that the Flutter app depends on. This seem... 250
Josh Burton @josh.app · 16/01/2025Spent the morning rewriting a polling function that used Timer/Completer/Future into a much nicer version using Stream.periodic. It turns out Stream.periodic is essentially impossible to test via Flutter Widget tests 😭 Darts async features really need a lot of work. 020
Josh Burton @josh.app · 08/01/2025go_router enters maintenance mode 😭 pub.dev/packages/go_...pub.devgo_router | Flutter packageA declarative router for Flutter based on Navigation 2 supporting deep linking, data-driven routes and more 5153
Josh Burton @josh.app · 07/01/2025seems like the versions of both file and platform dependencies are higher than versions pinned by flutter (or the integration_test package). Could those be relaxed so I don't need to use dependency overrides? 100
Josh Burton @josh.app · 03/01/2025My last day of holiday and I've finally started a new side project 🎉 Using Dart for the backend deployed via Cloud Run. Excited to see how it turns how with the whole stack in Dart. 040
Josh Burton @josh.app · 21/12/2024Next year I want to start a weekly 'journal' of work achievements, things I'm proud of etc. I'm thinking a private github repo, with a github app that opens a PR weekly. 010
Josh Burton @josh.app · 21/12/2024Anyone have app recommendations for teaching a 3 year old to read? Duolingo ABC is ok but looking for more options 100
Josh Burton @josh.app · 20/12/2024I assumed that would work as well but it doesn't seem to. I've found an existing issue filed: github.com/flutter/flut...github.comSliverFillRemaining(fillOverscroll: true) does not extend beyond the viewport size · Issue #141077 · flutter/flutterSteps to reproduce Create a widget that builds a CustomScrollView with bouncing scroll physics and a single child: a SliverFillRemaining with hasScrollBody: false and fillOverscroll: true. Expected... 110
Josh Burton @josh.app · 19/12/2024Last day of work for year - so of course I now have the sudden urge to start a side project 🤣 040
Josh Burton @josh.app · 19/12/2024Here's a dartpad of a working sample: dartpad.dev?id=45adea1ea... Basically the footer sliver has a color that should fill the overscroll. This is achieved in the sample via the aligned container that sizes its height to the scroll offsetdartpad.devDartPadAn online Dart editor with support for console and Flutter apps. 110
Josh Burton @josh.app · 19/12/2024Flutter devs - is there a nicer way to fill the bottom scroll offset of a CustomScrollView (which uses BouncingScrollPhysics)? I'm currently using a scrollController.offset to display a Container behind the scroll view sized to the height of the scroll. It works, but is there a better way? 230
Josh Burton @josh.app · 12/12/2024I've filed a bug with a sample: github.com/flutter/flut... Seems to only occur when packages depend on a shared base package.github.comFlutter bundles assets from all packages in a pub workspace · Issue #160142 · flutter/flutterWhen using the new pub workspaces, I've found a bug where assets from all packages are bundled in the built app, rather than assets from just the packages that the Flutter app depends on. This seem... 160
Josh Burton @josh.app · 12/12/2024Well I'll be reverting that change. When using workspaces all of the workspaces in the project seem to be bundled with the app, even if not referenced by the app pubspec. Surely that's a bug. 141
Josh Burton @josh.app · 05/12/2024Is anyone using tart.run (macOS virtual machine) for CI on self hosted runners? I have some questions!tart.runToolset to build, run and manage macOS and Linux VMsNative performance. Remote storage for Virtual Machines. Many integrations including GitHub, GitLab and more. 000
Josh Burton @josh.app · 03/12/2024This is a neat little package for Flutter Riverpod users: pub.dev/packages/riv...pub.devriverpod_community_extensions | Flutter packageExtends Riverpod ref types with additional helpers, to easily add common functionalities to your providers. 030
Josh Burton @josh.app · 29/11/2024yep you're right - turns out dart and flutter are behaving perfectly and the issue was in a templating package all along... 130
Josh Burton @josh.app · 28/11/2024I'm still not clear on if/when I should unescape that value when receiving it back from my api to display in a form. Feels strange that I have to handle it manually 110
Josh Burton @josh.app · 28/11/2024Yeah definitely user error. My confusion was from text being entered in a form with \n, which are literal characters rather a newline character. 140
Josh Burton @josh.app · 28/11/2024Hmm but JavaScript doesn't do it. I would expect jsonDecode to be able reverse whatever is passed to jsonEncode but in this case it can't. 110
Josh Burton @josh.app · 28/11/2024It's resulting in an issue on our backend due to the unexpected escaping - surprised I can't find more issues online mentioning it. 120
Josh Burton @josh.app · 27/11/2024Can any Flutter/Dart experts enlightem me as to why jsonEncode escapes strings (e.g. \n becomes \\n). This doesn't seem standard for json encoding. Can it be disabled? 261
Josh Burton @josh.app · 25/11/2024Really looking forward to smaller iOS patch sizes - currently a blocker for me recommending Shorebird to some of my clients. Loving the developments ❤️ 000
Josh Burton @josh.app · 23/11/2024Struggling to get Flutter working as a Daydream service (screensaver) on Android TV. Anyone else tried and had success? 020
Josh Burton @josh.app · 20/11/2024yep tests are always a trade off with time. They require constant maintenance, add dev time to each new story/feature but hopefully do pay off in the long term maintenance of a app. Our app is a whitelabeled app so golden tests are essential for making sure we're not making unintentional changes 020
Josh Burton @josh.app · 19/11/2024Being able to test for visual regressions across my entire app when I update Flutter is pretty handy! 110
Josh Burton @josh.app · 11/11/2024I have not.. yet. Just something I've noticed the last few days. There are no logs that I can see. Just the process hanging 100
