Foundations Course - August 2023 Update

Mainly minor changes:

• Updated course to Flutter 3.13, Dart 3.1
• Updated course to latest package versions

Here are the most important details for each section / lesson. 👇

Section 1

• Added useMaterial3: false flag to ThemeData in MaterialApp (the next Flutter release will switch to Material 3 by default but we don't need that)
• Updated showAlertDialog function in alert_dialogs.dart to use the new AlertDialog.adaptive constructor that was added to Flutter 3.13
• Updated to flutter_layout_grid: 2.0.4 to fix a compile issue with Flutter 3.13

Section 2

We’ll be using GoRouter version 10.1.

As a result, some code changes are needed:

Lesson 02.03:

• Install go_router: 10.1.0

Lesson 02.10:

• Set GoRouter.optionURLReflectsImperativeAPIs = true inside main. This is necessary to preserve the old URL navigation behavior on Flutter web (and also prevents an issue with redirects).

Lesson 02.12:

• Updated notes to show the usage of AlertDialog.adaptive in the showAlertDialog function

Section 4

Lesson 04.03:

• Updated pubspec.yaml to use flutter_riverpod: 2.3.7

Section 5

Lesson 05.21:

• Following the removal of GoRouterState.location in GoRouter 10.0, the code has been updated to use the state.uri.path property instead (see notes)

Section 6

Lesson 06.12:

• Install mocktail: 1.0.0

Lessons 13,14,15:

• As of state_notifier: 1.0.0 (which is installed with flutter_riverpod: 2.3.7), state is now accessible in tests without a warning (see the changelog)
• So I've replaced controller.debugState with controller.state in the tests code

Section 7

Lesson 07.11:

• Added note about setting GoRouter.optionURLReflectsImperativeAPIs = true inside pumpMyApp().

Lesson 07.14:

• Updated notes to mention Patrol for integration testing.