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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Noticed that when I ask Gemini 2.5 to implement Flutter widgets, it always prefers a helper method instead of a dedicated Widget class. Anyone else experiencing this? @labenz.dev @redbrogdon.dev #FlutterDev #Gemini www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOyq...

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Widgets vs helper methods | Decoding Flutter

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

2024 Octoverse reports reveal that Flutter is at the 6th place "Top 10 open source and public projects attracting the most first-time contributors in 2024 on GitHub" github.blog/news-insight...

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

TLDR; Flutter vs. Native vs. KMP

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I am building a Finnish 🇫🇮 language teaching app w/ Flutter & Firebase Vertex AI. The app generates example sentences for all inflections of a given Finnish word. I want the generated examples to be creative (rich in vocabulary) but also grammatically correct. This is a tradeoff.

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

In my opinion, the Vertext API for Firebase is missing enums for results creativity. The white paper says: "As a general starting point, a temperature of .2, top-P of .95, and top-K of 30 will give you relatively coherent results that can be creative but not excessively so."

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Loving the power of Flutter + Firebase + Vertex AI! 🔥 Building some exciting stuff, and Lee Boonstra's "Prompt Engineering" white paper is a huge help for optimizing prompts in Vertex AI Studio. Can't wait to share more! Sneak peek below 👇 #Firebase #VertexAI #AI #GenAI #PromptEngineering

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I am excited to join the Observable<Flutter> livestream today with other Flutter tech leads. We will be diving into what it’s like building Flutter apps in enterprise environments. If you have questions drop them with #AskFlutter and join on Flutter’s YT channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=saeh...

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#FlutterInProduction | Observable Flutter #58

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A solid dependency injection mechanism is key to true modularity in a project. Implicit injection might seem appealing and defaulting to singletons or eagerly initializing everything without considering when they are needed impacts modularity. Be intentional with DI design for maximum modularity.

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Why is the new #Flutter Architecture Guideline important? 🤔 In my recent YouTube video, a viewer asked, "I’ve used GetX for years. Should I change? Will it cause issues later?" My advice: pick architectures that aren't Flutter-specific but work across platforms 👌

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The Flutter & Friends conference @flutterfriends.dev · 02/12/2024

The dates are set for Flutter & Friends 2025! 🥳 So mark 31st of August to 2nd of September in your calendars. (Tickets are not released yet)

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Thomas @escamoteur.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Wow, look at this #Flutter adaptive layout package in this forum post forum.itsallwidgets.com/t/responsive...

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Responsiveness in Flutter

Hi, you can take a look at our packages: Responsive layout grid for responsive modals:

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Just heard that Aalto University (the best in Finland) has #Flutter course but they teach GetX for state management 🥲

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Can we agree to use the term MVx and focus on separating the concerns of model, view and whatever is left for x? In the end we should discuss what. How is the detail.

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Anyone knows when we will have to upgrade the Android Gradle Plugin to 8.0 in our projects? When the day comes, we will have many unmaintained package problem 😔

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

For me, the most challening #Flutter take-home assignments to review during tech rounds are those using Riverpod. While I appreciate it works and does the job, implementations are hard to follow, overly opinionated (often not the candidate’s own), and far from standard patterns (and even Flutter).

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Thanks @tahatesser.com for all the support in this journey 🔥💙 You are a community here 🎩

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I wasn’t sure about #WoltModalSheet impact, but looks like sharing our internal solution with the #Flutter community was worth it! With 28.8k downloads, 1112 pub likes 24 contributors, it’s clear it’s valuable. These stats will validate our investment when presenting our Flutter work to our CTO.

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Cagatay Ulusoy @ulusoyapps.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Last month I documented internal architecture document at work and today I saw the #Flutter team published a recommended doc. I am surprised to see many similarities 💙 This will be super useful for the community! Great job 👏

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