It's Monday, which means another "What I Learned This Week" video. In this one I've got updates on v1.0 of the A2UI protocol for GenUI, my first foray into Dart Functions on Firebase, and more!

Today there's live Flutter+GenUI with Cagatay Ulusoy and @labenz.dev, y'all! There aren't too many people who know GenUI in prod like Cagatay! https://www.youtube.com/live/5DeV14h6ZqU

Flame on the SteamDeck:

Me: Hey, Antigravity, can you test my game like a real player? AGY: Sure! I'll just add flutter_driver, make a new entry point, add value keys to some of the widgets, figure out DTD via the Dart MCP, launch the app, teach myself Reversi, and start hitting buttons. Just wild.

Hey, look -- It's Brian Egan from @verygood.ventures talking at #GoogleCloudNext about their financial planner built with Generative UI and Flutter! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCElXNUr3RA

You know what's embarrassing? Despite arriving at Google as a former English major and going into DevRel, this article is only the second I've ever published to the Flutter blog. Last one was eight years ago. 🤣 https://blog.flutter.dev/new-updates-to-a2ui-and-flutters-genui-package-e5ddff07737b

I've been watching more highlight videos from Next '26. Fun to see what you get when people record videos in a hotel room on very little sleep. 😂 Here's a good one on full-stack Dart with Firebase, though! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOU5dZJvHXk #GoogleCloudNext

For those of y'all who didn't make it to Vegas for Google Cloud Next 2026, there are highlight videos of a lot of the talks. Here's mine, from a talk on Flutter, A2UI, and GenUI, featuring demos and apps from all over the Flutter community! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euBx8IvZTlA

Widgetbook v4 Beta is here!🚀 Check out the thread below to find out what's new👇 Would love to hear your feedback!💙

Another "What I Learned This Week," featuring an update to Flutter's contribution guidelines and a tip on how to generate captions for videos (since I happened to learn that one this week, too). 😀

The Flutter team is hiring! 💙 docs.flutter.dev/jobs

Does anyone have a hotel recommendation for Fluttercon in Orlando? The convention center is huge, and it looks like you could stay at one of its "official" hotels and still have a twenty minute walk.

🔴 #HumpdayQandA with Live Coding! at 5pm GMT / 6pm CEST / 9am PST today! Answering your #Flutter and #Dart questions with @devangels.london , Randal, John, Matthew Jones and @kali.nyc www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNkQ...

I did another video! The thing I learned this week was how to code a set of classes myself to make sure I fully understood them, and then have Gemini create a reusable skill (a set of markdown-formatted instructions and context) that Antigravity could use to auto-create similar stuff when needed.

I'm giving social video a try (in part to justify to my wife how much I've spent on lighting equipment). 😀 This is a minute-or-two recap sharing what I worked on and learned last week, mostly about GenUI and the A2UI protocol, which is getting a version bump to 0.9!

The #GoogleIO puzzle is officially live. 🧩 You can play, remix, and help the community crack the code in real-time. Are you ready to help us reach the goal? 🤝 Start here → goo.gle/iopuzzle26-6

🤗 Watch my #FOSDEM talk here: Fluorite: console-grade game engine in Flutter 💙🎮✨ (presented by Toyota Connected North America) video.fosdem.org/2026/ud2120/... #FlutterDev #gamedev #embedded #automotive

Absolutely over the Moon to share that I have joined the #GoogleDevoperExperts Program as a #GDE for @flutter.dev and @dart.dev So excited for the opportunities this will bring to give back to the Community. Thanks to everyone who helped me get here!

The Flutter team published a great video about the decoupling of Material and Cupertino from the Flutter framework in 2026!👏 youtu.be/W4olXg91iX8?... I hope this encourages even more Flutter teams to build their own custom design systems to deliver a consistent user experience on every platform!✨

Want to live in Sunnyvale, California and work on the Flutter team?

Hey, folks! We're doing another live Q&A on Wednesday. Anything you'd like to know about the decoupling of Material/Cupertino, upcoming changes to Dart, and/or GenUI?

Compete for $20,000 in prizes in the “Build your Flutter Butler with Serverpod” hackathon! 🏆 Submit your entry before the end of January. Host your app for free on Serverpod Cloud until March 10th! 🥳 Join here: 👉 https://serverpod.devpost.com/

More than twenty years ago, I stumbled onto this poem in a Microsoft book on C++. That started me reading poetry, then writing poetry, then going back to school as a poet where I met my wife. Eventually I followed her to California and started at Google. Anyway, I finally found the book on eBay! 😀

Heeeeeey, there's a fun little green badge that wasn't there last week... 😀

Knowing Filip is living his best life gives me hope for the rest of us.

Today's summary of yesterday's Dart/Flutter GitHub activity includes a fix for those building iOS apps with watch companions, as well as prep for an upcoming language feature! Full report at github.com/redbrogdon/g...

Everyone knows this is the most important announcement in tech today #FlutterDev

I'm still working on my daily GitHub activity summaries for Dart and Flutter. Today's list includes a fix from Elijah for an annoying iOS debugging issue. Full report at github.com/redbrogdon/g....

Dart 3.10's dot shorthands are game changers for #Flutter code: ✅ shorter enums, less boilerplate, and sharper syntax. ⚠️ But beware the hidden complexities! Learn about “Practical Rulebook for Teams” 👇 dcm.dev/blog/2025/11...

I've entered a new phase of my software engineering career in which I no longer build or code anything, and instead just work with Gemini to make DESIGN.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, and IMPLEMENTATION.md files for hypothetical apps I wish existed.

I just released `build_runner 2.10.3` with another performance improvement, if you have a big codebase you will be happy, benchmark results: 1000 files: 2x faster (5s -> 3s) 2000 files: 5x faster (25s -> 5s) 5000 files: 27x faster (424s -> 15s) pub.dev/packages/bui...

We're streaming in a few hours! Release news, customer stories, leads who will answer your questions, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTb3...

Hey, folks! The Flutter team is doing a livestream next week, which will include a Q&A. Anything you'd like to ask the engineering, DevRel, and product leads? Questions about the roadmap, new features, the craziest place they've seen someone get Flutter running, all of these are valid topics. 😀

Suddenly it happens! 🌟 @serverpod.dev is on Discord. Join us there and spread the word. 🙌 https://discord.gg/wJ4pQeHhVc

I know people are probably sick of vibe coding content at this point, but I do think it's cool to see a Google VP building stuff on YT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1KA...

Want your website footer to look as cool as the official dart.dev website? ✨ Add the new "Built with Jaspr" badge with only 1 line of code. Available as "JasprBadge.light()" and ".dark()" in the latest Jaspr release!

Jaspr + Riverpod = 💙 jaspr_riverpod is not updated to use Riverpod 3, giving you access to all the latest features. Also, syncing providers is now even easier. Think "fullstack providers" that you compute on the server (e.g. load from db) and read on the client after pageload.

Dart Frog adding support for Workspaces is a dream come true! 🫡 to @felangel.bsky.social for his continued service to the Dart and Flutter communities github.com/dart-frog-de...

Shorebird CI is in beta 🚀 ✨ Zero Config ✅ Production Quality 💙 Built for Flutter & Dart ⚡️ Performant Spend more time building for customers and less time fighting with frustrating CI workflows. Try Shorebird CI today in <1 minute, no code changes needed👇 shorebird.dev/blog/introdu...

Latest from Dart/Flutter GitHub: Primary Constructors are now an accepted language feature. Plus, Flutter gets UI enhancements like grouped Widget Previews & improved Overlays github.com/redbrogdon/g...

Anybody want to hear my life story and freewheeling opinions on application engineering? 😀

📣 I published a new Jaspr pre-release with big improvements! Writing Jaspr components is now even easier and more Flutter-like, the framework core is further optimized and more performant, and I added a 'jaspr migrate' command that automatically migrate all breaking changes. 👇

This month in the Shorebird Newsletter: ✨ New Code Push updates 🎬 Fluttercon EU keynote + afterparty with @vgventures.bsky.social 🌍 New community shoutouts 🚀 Shorebird CI beta launch Subscribe for free at shorebird.dev/newsletter-s...

Today I learned a neat #Dart trick for running multiple async operations in parallel. I used to rely on 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲.𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁(), but that meant: • Casting results manually (𝘢𝘴 𝘛𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘈, 𝘢𝘴 𝘛𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘉 … 😩) • The logic depended on the order of operations (easy to break, especially with LLMs 😅).

Stay a while and listen #ObservableFlutter #VideoGameReferences #Diablo

Google Fonts makes a move, lots of doc fixes from the community, and a nice patch from @romanjaquez.bsky.social in today's log of pull request landings! github.com/redbrogdon/g...

🍌Trying to get a few more fruits and vegetables into your day? We just put #NanoBanana to work with Flutter and @Firebase AI Logic! Try it in your Flutter app at no cost → goo.gle/3JycHSa

Has anyone else spent the last twenty-four hours generating images recreationally? 😂 #nanobanana

Google featured Widgetbook as Flutter Package of the week!🎉 With 230k downloads, @widgetbook.bsky.social is helping developers around the world to build, test, and catalog their widgets in isolation. Thanks a lot to our contributors and users for your support!💙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGRe...