Flutter Journey with Vincenzo Palazzo

Flutter 101 Podcast

My guest today is Vincenzo Palazzo. He's an open-source developer from Italy.

We talked about his past experience with Java, Kotlin, Swing, and he shared what he thinks about Flutter and Dart.

Vincenzo also talked about how he approaches app development, how he finds projects to work on, how he learns new concepts, and how he practices new technologies.

Guest: Vincenzo Palazzo

• Twitter @PalazzoVincenzo
• GitHub @vincenzopalazzo
• LinkedIn @palazzovincenzo

Host: Vince Varga

• Twitter @vincevargadev
• GitHub @vincevargadev
• LinkedIn @vincevargadev
• Web vincevarga.dev
• Flutter 101 Podcast on Twitter @flutter101dev

Most relevant past episodes from Flutter 101

• Background Services with Sakina Abbas (Episode 13): Sakina Abbas is a Google Developers Expert for Flutter, co-founder and CEO of Reactree. In this episode, we talked about background services.
• Get your first Flutter job with Vince Varga (Episode 12): In this episode, Vince Varga responds to a listener's question and shares his tips on getting your first Flutter job with limited experience.
• Flying High with Flutter and Allen Wyma (Episode 10): Allen Wyma, the host of Flying High with Flutter, and I talked about Flutter, different cross-platform technologies, Flutter on the desktop, Elixir, Erlang, Rust, and many more.

Mentioned packages

• pub.dev/packages/get_it - Simple direct Service Locator that allows to decouple the interface from a concrete implementation and to access the concrete implementation from everywhere in your App

Other resources

• github.com/vincenzopalazzo/material-ui-swing - A modern, Material Design UI for Java Swing
• Swing (Java) on Wikipedia - Swing is a GUI widget toolkit for Java. It is part of Oracle's Java Foundation Classes (JFC) – an API for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for Java programs.
• JMARS - JMARS is an acronym that stands for Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing. It is a geospatial information system (GIS) developed by ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility to provide mission planning and data-analysis tools to NASA scientists, instrument team members, students of all ages and the general public.
• Lightning network - Lightning is a decentralized network using smart contract functionality in the blockchain to enable instant payments across a network of participants.
• github.com/ElementsProject/lightning - A Lightning Network implementation in C