This post provides a place to collect info around migrating a mature Android application from pre Flutter 3.16 to 3.22 and migrating to the new Gradle DSL changes. It also contains information about Android build, dependency and 3rd party management in general, and links to monitor Gradle, Kotlin, Java and other tooling versions. General info on Gradle migration Flutter uses Gradle plugins to build Android apps. Before Flutter 3.16 “Gradle’s legacy, imperative apply script method” was used.

I’ve been researching using websockets in Dart lately as a way to remotely initiate actions on the connected clients without having them poll every X seconds (not great to be chatty with the serversession85!).

Lot’s of traveling this week, back to the keyboard!

As a way of creating more content and building the muscles and habits to do so, I’m going to try and journal daily in these journal posts.

Created a quick helper app to help get my digital art into a playing card computer game.

Using the Flame gaming engine for Flutter and a little helper app I’ve been able to get a couple of my playing card images into a Klondike solitare computer game.

Steps to install Flutter and Dart on Raspberry Pi

2024-04-30 STILL WORKING ON THIS POST

I’ve made a template that I’m using to create artwork for a custom set of playing cards. This template is based off of a 9x6 inch piece of sketchbook paper and available from the link below.

Latest DevLog for ArtOrgTool. Focus on updating Collection hero image from client device, tagging and filtering Items.

I think doodling on planes helps my brain focus on things other then the physics of plane flight, and just how crazy it is that us humans figured it out!

blog reboot!