Some interesting Dartlang packages

There are various packages with different intentions are available to Dartlang in a global space known as “pub“. At present there are two of these packages which seems interesting to me.

  1. Dartflash
  2. Rikulo

As you might be already guessing that “Dartflash” is a port of Flash API to Dartlang. That makes any flash developer instantly play with “canvas” element of HTML5. So yes, its not working on the DOM of the page rather works on the “canvas” element of the DOM.
The second one, that is “Rikulo” seems to promise a lot. It says, it can create “cross-platform web and native mobile applications using HTML5″, while its true to create web applications, but the native mobile application is done through, you guessed it right, phonegap(now known as CORDOVA). And now there is another dart package,which is the port of CORDOVA in Dartlang. Its known as

  • Rikulo Gap
  • That means, one has to have the “Phone Gap” development environment ready to start doing mobile development.
    Rikulo works in DOM manipulation and gives a displaylist hierarchy (if one compare it with flashplayer displaylist, its similar in concept and how it works).