Tag: flutter

Pick Dart 3.12 records for ephemeral, locally-shaped data with no methods, and Freezed 3.x classes for named domain models that need copyWith, sealed unions, JSON serialization, or any behaviour.

For a greenfield mobile app in 2026, pick Flutter 3.44 when pixel-identical UI and animation budget matter, React Native 0.82 when your team already lives in TypeScript and you need a real browser sibling, and .NET MAUI 11 when iOS and Android are part of a wider .NET product and you need first-party Microsoft support.

Dart 3.12 lets constructors initialize private fields directly with named parameters, killing one of the language's most persistent boilerplate patterns.

Firebase shipped experimental Dart support for Cloud Functions on May 6, 2026. HTTPS and callable triggers, AOT-compiled cold starts, and the Firebase CLI handles compilation.

The fix in 30 seconds: set android.useAndroidX=true and android.enableJetifier=true in android/gradle.properties, then find any plugin still on the old support library and upgrade or replace it.

The fix in 30 seconds: set minSdkVersion to 21 (or higher) in android/app/build.gradle. background_fetch is built on Android's JobScheduler, which only exists from API 21.

The fix in 60 seconds: upgrade Flutter to 3.24.4 or later, raise the Podfile platform to iOS 13, wipe Pods plus DerivedData, then pod install. The error rarely lives in your Dart code.

The fix in 30 seconds: your response body is not the JSON you think it is. Print the raw bytes, decode with utf8.decode(response.bodyBytes), and never feed an HTML error page or a BOM-prefixed string to jsonDecode.

The fix in 30 seconds: read the 'because' chain in the error, find the one constraint that boxes pub in, and either widen it or add a dependency_overrides entry. Do not start with flutter clean.

The fix in 30 seconds: wrap the offending child in Expanded or Flexible. Then read the rest to learn why Row and Column do not clip, what unbounded constraints actually mean, and which fix is right for each layout.