wmleler
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Senior software engineer and developer advocate for Flutter and Dart at Google.
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Comment · 5 years ago
The JackTrip Virtual Studio uses an inexpensive Raspberry Pi, and connects a low latency hardware codec directly into the Pi's bus, to achieve a latency of 1mS. At that level, the only other latency you have to worry about is the speed of light (through the internet). I've just published an article about the Virtual Studio at https://wmleler1.medium.com/setting-up-your-virtual-studio-6...
Comment · 5 years ago
I've just published an article that goes into depth about how to get a JackTrip Virtual Studio installed. This uses an inexpensive Raspberry Pi instead of requiring installing finicky software on a general purpose laptop or other computer. I wrote this while helping a choir get online, and it worked very well. I hope this helps!
https://wmleler1.medium.com/setting-up-your-virtual-studio-6...
Comment · 8 years ago
I spent several days with DG when we were working on PIX and QIX, and I found him to be a smart, helpful person. Of course, he was on a crusade for tuple spaces, but you shouldn't hold that against him. Also, that was before he had several fingers blown off.
Comment · 8 years ago
Another good article to read about this is "Linda Meets Unix", which was published in IEEE Computer magazine. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/44903/ (full disclosure: I wrote it).
Comment · 8 years ago
Our focusing on the client doesn't mean you can't use Dart on the server. In fact, we (the Flutter team) use it on the server.
Analogy: JavaScript is focused on the client too, but people also use it on the server.
Comment · 8 years ago
We have a new plugin for Google Maps that we are working on. If you play with it, please give us feedback so we can continue to improve it. https://github.com/flutter/plugins/tree/master/packages/goog...
Comment · 8 years ago
Hi, Wm Leler from the Flutter team. There are several map integrations available. I think what you might be thinking about is the integration with Google Maps. We have a solution and are working with the Google Maps team to implement. We will announce when this is ready. Meanwhile, there are three plugins that can do maps.
There is no "long-term architectural concern" with Flutter. We play well with video and other views.
If you have a more specific question, I'd be happy to give more specific answers. Feel free to contact us.
Comment · 8 years ago
The killer feature of building UI elements in code is that you can build up more complex widgets from simpler ones using composition. Flutter does this everywhere, which makes it super easy to modify or customize any widget, or to reuse widgets to build a new one.
You mention following complex nesting chains through code declarations. I understand what you are talking about, but the (awesome) Flutter tooling now has two views that make this far easier: the Widget Inspector, which lets you see and modify the widget tree at runtime (there was a talk on this at DartConf), and the new Outline view (just released a few days ago), which helps you play with the widget declarations in your code.
See https://flutter.io/inspector/ and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flutter-dev/lKtTQ-45... (for the outline view)
Comment · 8 years ago
In addition to the sample mobile app cbracken mentions (he and I are both on the Flutter team), there are a number of codelabs that walk you through building a real mobile app. Including a lovely new codelab at https://flutter.io/get-started/codelab/
Comment · 8 years ago
Apple doesn't accept demo apps in their store. But it is easy to fire up the Gallery app on an iOS phone from Flutter.
There are plenty of iOS Flutter apps in the App Store. For example, the Hamilton app or. The fact that you can't tell if an app was written in Flutter just by looking at it (or even playing with it) is a Feature.
Comment · 8 years ago
There's an article that answers your question -- https://hackernoon.com/whats-revolutionary-about-flutter-946...
Comment · 9 years ago
Good to see developers giving Flutter a try, even though it is still alpha. If you have any problems, talk to us on the gitter.im/flutter/flutter channel or file an issue on GitHub.com/flutter/flutter. [Disclaimer: I work on Flutter]