PlusPlugins with Miguel Beltran

The Developers' Bakery

It’s been since episode #07 that we haven’t talked about Flutter 💙, so today we have Miguel Beltran on stage to talk about one of the most important library for it: Plus Plugins.

Miguel is one of the maintainer of this popular collection of plugins. Plus plugins offer multiplatform capability to access informations such as battery, connectivity, sensors and more across a variety of platforms: Android, iOS, Web, MacOS, Windows & Linux!

In this episode we will talk about the story of this project, how it evolved from Google to Flutter community, and how people can contribute to such a critical piece of the Flutter ecosystem.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

• 00.00 Intro
• 00.46 Episode Start
• 01.21 Miguel’s Introduction
• 02.26 What are the Plus Plugins?
• 04.55 Who owns the Plus Plugins?
• 08.56 Flutter Plugin Ecosystem
• 11.00 Contributing to Flutter
• 12.13 Miguel’s favorite plus plugin
• 14.31 Are plus plugins offering also UI?
• 15.34 The hardest plus plugin to maintain
• 17.37 Multiplatform support
• 19.40 The monorepo
• 24.05 What makes a plugin a plus plugin?
• 27.20 How you got involved in this project?
• 30.20 How do you handle oss contributions?
• 32.08 How to contribute?
• 33.55 How do you keep docs and code on sync?
• 35.55 Do you version your docs?
• 37.36 Further reading
• 38.44 Where to find Miguel online?

Resources

• fluttercommunity/plus_plugins on Github
• Plus Plugins Official Website
• Plus Plugins CONTRIBUTING.md File
• Developing Packages in Flutter - Pluralsight Course
• @MiBLT on Twitter
• @miquelbeltran on Github

Show links

• Podcast Website
• The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify
• The Developers’ Bakery on Apple Podcasts
• The Developers’ Bakery on Google Podcasts
• @thebakerydev on Twitter
• @cortinico on Twitter