Flutter Kisumu 2021 Events Highlights
Ever been to Kisumu? Here we call it ‘Yurop’ 😃...The warm breeze, the nice ambiance around the Lake region? Kisumu serves as the capital city of Kisumu County, Kenya. Well, Flutter Kisumu is a fast-growing community of developers around the Western region of Kenya. The community kicked off last year to enable developers to learn and share knowledge revolving around Flutter and its associated technologies.
Thank you for attending and speaking at our 2021 events, we highly appreciate it. Below are highlights of this years’ events lineup.
1. Flutter App Architecture
Our very first event of 2021 kicked off in Jan and it was graced by Lazarus Nwankwo. Lazarus Nwankwo (a.k.a lazicah) is Born and bred in Nigeria, he started his Mobile Development journey in 2016 after graduating from the University with a B.Tech. in Quantity Survey.
The session was about Flutter App architecture and how it keeps your code readable. Find out more about the session from the session recording.
2. Flutter + GraphQL
Our second session was all about GraphQL & Flutter and Deandrew introduced us to Fundamentals of GraphQL and how to integrate it in a Flutter App. Find out more about the session from the session recording.
Deandrew Moore is a 22 year old Software Engineer from Kingston, Jamaica. He is currently a final year Computer Science student at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.
3. Flutter Engage Africa.
In regards to Flutter Engage events series by Google, we were proud to host Flutter Engage Africa event where Flutter communities in Africa including Flutter Africa, Flutter Kenya, Flutter Kisumu, Flutter Togo, Flutter Cameroon, Flutter Lagos, Flutter Ghana, and Flutter Zimbabwe had a joint awesome event to host amazing Googlers and the Flutter Flow team.
Check out the session recording here.
4. How to improve your UI skills
Whether you’re a Front end engineer, UI Designer, or even solo developer working on side projects, there are various techniques you could learn that would help you in crafting beautiful, usable, effective & functional interfaces. Attention to every detail is what separates a great & successful product from one that is not. Learning how to use these techniques boils down to restraint & thoughtful implementation. Remember: don’t use a technique because it exists, however, use it because it makes sense in your context.
In this session, Glorious Vuyanzi took us through how to improve your UI skills by making constant tweaks that go a long way in improving the user's experience as they interact with the products you’ve helped develop or design.
Check out the session recording here.
5. Google I/O Recap : Android, Flutter & Kotlin Edition
We had a joint meetup with Flutter Kenya, Kotlin Kenya, and Android254 to give a recap of Google I/O 2021 to learn about what’s New In Android, Kotlin, and Flutter from the announcements at Google I/O 2021.
Norman Nuthu lead with the latest announcements in Android and Kotlin and Kendi Jacky & Maureen Josephine lead the announcements for the Flutter part.
Check out the session recording here.
6. Build a Customer Engagement app with Flutter and Express
In this session, Anthony Limo took us through how to build a Customer Engagement app with Flutter and Express in a step-by-step Demo.
Anthony is a Developer Relations professional with Africa’s Talking. His passion is creating awesome developer experiences and building products for emerging markets.
Check out the session recording here.
7. Fundamentals of Applications Security
As much as we continue building Flutter Applications, we should always consider the security of our applications. In this session, Diana took us through the fundamentals of application security to be able to look for loopholes.
Diana is a CyberSecurity consultant and trainer, and an AFRIKA KOMMT! Fellow. She is the Founder of Wahandisi La Femme, a mentorship program for high school students into engineering and technology (including cybersecurity). Diana is passionate about data security and creating user awareness in Africa.
Check out the session recording here.
8. [Flutter]: ‘My Journey with Navigator 2.0’.
Navigator 2.0 API is known to be declarative, it still supports the existing static imperative methods (pop, push, replace, etc.) of the Navigator widget. In this session, Rona Kilmer, the Co-Founder, and CPO of Reddiyo shared with us her journey with Flutter Navigator 2.0.
Check out the session recording here.
9. Flutter + Bluetooth
Ever been curious about implementing Bluetooth functionality in your Flutter app? Ever tried implementing Bluetooth functionality before? Maureen Josephine took us through the session, getting insights and reviews from the audience on their Flutter + Bluetooth integration experience.
Maureen Josephine is a Software Engineer and a Tech Communities lover. She is currently Flutter Kisumu’s event organizer.
Check out the session recording here.
10. Flutter Testing
Dedan Ndungu Kibere, a Software Engineer at Ujuzi Craft ltd shared with us his insights on the basics of flutter widget testing, how to do it and why it is important.
Check out the session recording here
11. End Year Flutter Meetup
@KenyaFlutterDev and @FlutterKisumu had a joint end-year meetup with amazing panelists: Abel Mengistu, Danvick Miller, Erick Seidel, and Nilay Yener. This was an open session to discuss Flutter Experience across the year and any other questions or feedback about Flutter.
Check out the session recording here
Thank you all for being part of our amazing community🙂.
Meet the awesome team behind the Flutter Kisumu community organization:
Chantelle Kyendereta (@cckyendereta) — in-charge of all the amazing event posters, okoth kongo, in-charge of organizing the events and making sure everything is in place. Maureen Josephine — in-charge of speaker outsourcing and event organization and lastly Sigu Magwa(sigu) in-charge of overseeing all events operations.
Have you checked us out on our socials yet? Follow us on Twitter, Meetup, and lastly YouTube where we usually share the recordings of our past events.
See you soon for our 2022 @FlutterKisumu events 🥳🥳
Thank you!!
Happy Holidays!!