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!).

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

I’ve decided to try out GitHubs Copilot to see how far I can push it. Even after a couple minutes I have to say I was very impressed with how easily it started predicting useful code completion. After creating the counter Flutter app, removing most of the generated code I began to type the name of the HomePage class I was planning to open from the MaterialApp object and Copilot suggested an initial StatelessWidget with the Scaffold predefined…very nice!