Flutter Inspector (DartConf 2018)

Flutter Inspector

The Flutter Inspector makes it easy to inspect the state of a running Flutter UI understanding how widgets are structured and what values they currently have. In this talk I’ll cover some common use cases where you should be using the Flutter Inspector to be more productive as a Flutter user.

About Jacob and Phil:
Jacob Richman is a developer on the Dart team in Seattle focused on developer tools for Dart. In the past he has e worked on chrome devtools integration for Dartium and the Dart Dev Compiler.

Phil Quitslund is a developer on the Dart team in Portland, focussed on developer tools for Dart and Flutter. His background is in programming languages and environments.

[terjeber]

So, I was reading about Flutter, someone asked a question about the "Pyramid of death", in other words excessive tree depth of components. Flutter Inspector was suggested as a tool to assist. I am just looking at this and my immediate thought is:

Isn't this a tool created to overcome a problem that shouldn't have been there in the first place?

Please correct me if I am wrong, but to me it seems like the trees illustrated above is a failure of design in Flutter as such, and tools to overcome failures of design are pointless.

Again, I would love to be corrected, but as someone looking into new mobile technologies, to me this video appears to reveal some serious design flaws in Flutter, and if so, the answer to the question would be: "Don't use Flutter".

[mike]

Who see "fuchsia" in os switch?))

[alvarovanolmen]

Flutter Inspector... such an unfortunate name lol