Using Gemini to control the user's screen remotely.

Remote Flutter Widgets (RFW) is a package that allows developers to change the layout of a screen remotely, dynamically, at runtime. But what if we substitute Gemini for that server, and allow it to decide what to show the user at any given moment based on information about what the user is doing with the app at the time?

It's not that it could be done, it's already been done. Now imagine what you can do with it!

Flutter 102: "The Next Step", Layout Basics

Everyone knows "Hello World", but what do you do next? Flutter 102, "The Next Logical Step", addresses this by taking attendees step-by-step through the process of creating and layout out an image, text and custom buttons in a way that allows for fine-tuning the element positions as needed.

2-4 hour workshop. It's been running 2.5 - 3 hours but if we keep discussion down it will fit in 2.

Flutter's Row and Column Multi-Child Layout Algorithm

At the heart of every layout are Rows and Columns, and in Flutter the heavy lifting done under the hood for Rows and Columns is the six-step multi-child layout algorithm. Beginning and intermediate Flutter developers can struggle for weeks, even months trying to understand exactly what is wrong as they get error after error about unbounded constraints and infinite sizes in their Flutter UI layouts.

When you know how the sausage is made, your frustrations just fade away into bliss and contentment. Okay, not really but at least you won't have so many headaches trying to deal with layout issues. So come find out what's happening under the hood, because it will make you a better dev, and your friends will think you're a Flutter God when you explain why they can't get their layouts to work!

Tips and Tricks for Speakers

At the tender age of 26, Scott was pulled aside and taught the finer points of how to give presentations, "as a mercy to his audiences". Since then, he's made a fool of himself on stages in more than thirteen cities on two continents, spanning eight timezones and more third-rate pizza slices than any human should have to endure.

What can you learn from a person like that? Funny you should ask...

- The four main classes of talks.
- Death by over-preparation.
- Event speakers work the whole event, not just 40 minutes of it.
- Handling stage fright.
- Grabbing their attention from the word go.
- Being entertaining enough, but not too much.
- How to spot when you're losing them.
- Shaking an audience up.
- Mistake recovery and handling massive SNAFUs.
- When to script it and when & how to wing-it.
- How to impress event promoters so you get invited back.

So are you in your seat yet, or should I tell you more?