Flutter Meetup: December Glögg Edition @ Netlight

Welcome to our next Flutter event ☃️

This time, our Meetup is in the new Netlight office. Many thanks to Netlight for hosting us in their event space!

Join us for an exciting evening of Flutter & Dart talks, Swedish mulled wine, and holiday cheer!

Flutter and Dart are two of the hottest technologies in the development world, and this meetup is your chance to learn from the experts. We'll have talks on a variety of topics, including new Flutter features, Dart best practices, and real-world case studies.

And of course, no Swedish holiday celebration is complete without glögg! We'll have a glögg bar set up, so you can enjoy this traditional Christmas drink while you mingle with other Flutter and Dart enthusiasts.
Whether you're a seasoned pro or a complete beginner, this meetup is for you. So come join us for a night of learning, networking, and holiday fun!

📆 Agenda
18:00 🗣 Doors open! Snacks, drinks, chat.
18:45 👋 Alexander Thiele & Netlight: Welcome to the meetup
19:00 🎤 BMW - Robert Magnusson: Building better widgets with WidgetDriver
19:30 🎤 GDE - Pascal Welsch: Exploring Records and Patterns
20:15 🎤 LeanCode - Mateusz Wojtczak: Reimagining Flutter UI tests with Patrol
20:45 🎙️ Open Mic & Networking

If you would like to present at one of the future meetups, reach out to Alexander on LinkedIn, Twitter

🎤 Alexander Thiele & Netlight
📰 Welcome to the meetup
Alexander, GDE Flutter & Netlight is welcoming all attendees.

🎤 Robert Magnusson (BMW)
📰 Building better widgets with WidgetDriver
WidgetDriver is a Flutter presentation layer framework, which will clean up your widget code, make your widgets more readable, easier to test and removes the need to mock thousands of dependencies in your widget tests. Let's go driving! 🚙💨

Robert is a passionate software engineer at BMW, where he has been working with Flutter since 2020. He is passionate about crafting exceptional user experiences and building intuitive frameworks.

🎤 Pascal Welsch (Flutter GDE)
📰 Exploring Records and Patterns
Dart 3 is packed with new experimental language features, including Records, Pattern Matching, Algebraic datatypes, and Destructuring. Like Extensions, they’ll open up new opportunities for packages and ways to express oneself in code. Through concrete examples, Pascal will guide you through the syntax of these new features and demonstrate how they can be used to create more expressive and maintainable code.
You’ll learn about:
- The benefits of the new Dart 3 language features
- The considerations in designing these features
- What the syntax looks like in isolation
- New patterns and anti-patterns and how they will shape our Dart code of tomorrow
Whether you're a seasoned Dart developer or just getting started, this talk will help you get up to speed on the latest advancements in the language. Don't wait for the future to arrive – start exploring these new features today and take your code to the next level.

🎤 Mateusz Wojtczak (Head of Mobile @ LeanCode)
📰 Reimagining Flutter UI tests with Patrol
Flutter UI integration testing can be really cumbersome, especially in a mobile app that depends also on the native side features. Unfortunately, Flutter integration test fail when a native permission dialog appears or we'd like to interact with some native platform view. We experienced the same blocking issues while testing apps that we develop at LeanCode.
That's why we created Patrol - an open-source framework for testing Flutter apps - developed by LeanCode. With Patrol you can write your UI tests in Dart (like you would with integration_test), but you are enabled to test interactions with native side - tap on native views, browse WebViews and even go interact with some other app on the device. The main goal of Patrol is to make running Flutter UI tests a piece of cake for QA teams and devs.

HOST:
The event is hosted by Netlight at Prannerstr. 4

CONTRIBUTE:
🗣️ If you would like to share your experience with Flutter, please feel free to contact us at any time. We have one more slot at this event, and we are working on other events so that we can get back to one event per month.
⚡️We are also interested in lightning talks, so don't hesitate to reach out to us even if your talk is 10-minutes long or shorter.
🍕 Would you or your company like to host one of our upcoming events? Send us a message!

If you would like to present at a future event, host an event, or join our Signal group, reach out to Alexander on LinkedIn, Twitter