Matt Carroll

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@eliHaProphet @intellijidea Good idea. Will give that a try.

@SuprDeclarative @intellijidea In the terminal pane switch the engine to the old one

For over a decade I've relied on @intellijidea Android Studio to have a dozen projects open for as long as I wanted, no problem. Now, 2 projects open for 2 days the whole thing becomes a laggy buggy mess. Can't scroll smoothly in the editor, can't type in the terminal 🤬

@plotsklapps @intellijidea

@SuprDeclarative @intellijidea I'm on Panda 2 and noticed serious regression as well. Need to invalidate cache and restart more often than I'd like to. Analyzer freezes, sometimes can't even run flutter clean properly 🤷‍♂️

What happened to Android Studio? How do I get rid of this awful lag that happens in the code editor and the terminal? I avoided upgrading for a long time and now I get this.

@mickrich384 @justinjmcc

@SuprDeclarative @justinjmcc How many times can you say "Gemini" and "Antigravity"? That's what really matters

We've finally got a job opening on my immediate team! Come build Flutter with us. docs.flutter.dev/jobs/swe_frame…

More fun with skia_dart. This time on Linux - graphite rendering into a wayland subsurface on background isolate while staying synchronized with Gtk window decorations. Seems like this finally might be getting somewhere.

@FlutterCarl Classic

@SuprDeclarative Spaces crashed lol

FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!

@MatejKnopp Oh it would definitely be very slow. Wouldn't have any production use-case. Just an opportunity to put something down using the bindings, and start to explore Skia APIs.

@SuprDeclarative That would be horribly slow :) I think better could be to try putting together atlas and use Canvas.drawAtlas to draw the text. Definitely seems like an uphill battle.

Some things are not flashy, not fun, but need to be done anyway. Automated prebuilt binaries for skia_dart are now a thing.

@MatejKnopp Understood. Still an interesting opportunity to try it out. Is font inspection available with those APIs, too? I'm wondering if I can kind of cobble together my own silly glyph rendering with paths by extracting that from fonts using Skia.

@SuprDeclarative You can have all layout info that you want, but you'll have no way to paint it.

@MatejKnopp Rendering aside, shouldn't Dart code in Flutter be able to communicate with the Dart bindings you've created here? Imagine if I just wanted to get things like bounding boxes for glyphs, or similar layout data from SkParagraph, wouldn't that work?

@SuprDeclarative Nothing about skia_dart should scream near term :) Also it isn't really usable in Flutter context, at least not in foreseeable future. At some point I'd very much like to have dart:ui alternative running on this (that could carry Flutter apps), but that's very far away.

@MatejKnopp Surely this is supported in Skia, right? If Skia is used by Chrome, the browser is where flow based text layout has existed for 30 years...

@SuprDeclarative I think for something like this you would want to go a level deeper and build your own SkParagraph alternative with SkShaper, but that seems like a rather tricky project.

@MatejKnopp @MatejKnopp to tie this to a very specific near term desired goal: inline widgets that actually understand line wrapping.

Whatever level of control that I'd need to rebuild RenderParagraph to support flowing around obstacles. Technically possible today by running entire paragraph layouts many times, but really we need a two-way conversation without the layout system. Also would like to touch individual glyphs to bring in Apple style animations so we can be on an even footing with them.

@MatejKnopp *conversation with the layout system

@guidorosso Can't wait!

Luigi's also building a pathfinder tool. Notice the exposed parameters that can be animated, data bound, and interacted with at runtime. Tell the agent what properties you want to control and it’ll expose them in the Rive Editor UI for you

AI tools want to make everyone an artist. We'd rather make artists dangerous. @rive_app's AI agent gives you the power to build things you couldn't before. Your own tools. Custom particle systems. Cloners. Path effects. Data connections. Full games.

@imadetheseworks Is this Super Editor, or a regular text field?

TIL a single blinking cursor consumes significant GPU cycles in #flutter on iOS? github.com/flutter/flutte…