Flutter 3
Flutter 3
Yesterday during Google I/O Google announced the release of Flutter 3.0.
You can have a look at the full video or read the blog post about Flutter 3 or the one about Dart 2.17.
There are plenty of new features but what stroke me most were two tiny announcements that were part of the Dart 2.17 release notes because they basically target two blog posts I made 😁.
Dart enums
I had a blog post describing how an enum can be extended by using extensions.
In the context of the Flutter 3 announcement they also announced an evolution of enums in Dart.
It is now possible to have a constructor and members directly in enums without using extensions. The only thing we loose is the reverse map providing the fromValue method.
Here is the example from my previous post but adapted to Dart 2.17: