Performance improvements, new Firebase features, desktop status, tooling updates and more! — It’s that time of year in the northern hemisphere: the leaves are turning, the temperature is cooling and the final stable release of the year is here. Hello and welcome to Flutter 2.8! This release represents the hard work of 207 contributors and 178 reviewers, producing 2,424 PRs merged and…

Performance improvements, DevTools updates, new Material You support, a new app template, and more! — Hello and welcome to Flutter 2.5! This is a big release, with the 2nd highest stats in the history of Flutter releases: 4600 issues closed and 3932 PRs merged from 252 contributors with 216 reviewers. If we look back over the last year, we see a huge 21,072 PRs created…

The Flutter 2.2 release focuses on polish and optimization, including iOS performance improvements, Android deferred components, updated service worker for Flutter web and more! Today is the day we make Flutter 2.2 available. You get to it by switching to the stable channel and upgrading your current Flutter installation, or…

Flutter web and Null Safety move to stable, Flutter desktop moves to beta and so much more! — Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of Flutter 2. It’s been a little more than two years since the Flutter 1.0 release, but in that short time, we’ve closed 24,541 issues and merged 17,039 PRs from 765 contributors. Just since the Flutter 1.22 release in September, we’ve closed 5807…

Updated integration testing that supports Firebase Test Lab on mobile; stand-alone support for web and desktop, too! — Flutter’s goal is to provide an open framework for quickly building beautiful native apps on multiple platforms. A large part of achieving that goal is the ability for you to easily test your Flutter apps to make sure that they work and look the way you want them to on…

Supporting iOS 14 and Android 11, new i18n and l10n support, Google Maps and WebView plugins ready for production, a new App Size tool and much more! — We’re delighted to introduce our latest release of Flutter, with extensive support for iOS 14 and Android 11. Flutter 1.22 builds on the foundation set by previous releases by enabling developers to build fast, beautiful user experiences for multiple platforms from a single codebase. Our quarterly stable releases package the…

Native Windows app compilation, some early plugins, and a desktop-ready Flutter Gallery app — Our mission is to provide developers with an open source, high-productivity framework for building beautiful, native apps on any platform. So far, we’ve shipped production-quality support for Android and iOS, with eight stable releases and over 100,000 apps shipped to the Google Play Store alone. We continue to broaden our…

As always, our goal is to make developers successful on Flutter regardless of the platform you’re targeting. Since the announcement of iOS 14 in June, we’ve been working on adding new features to Flutter that support this release, including updates to support Xcode 12, as well as adding new features…

Updated Firebase plugins for higher quality and a new site with Flutter-specific docs, snippets, and videos — Flutter is more than just an engine, a set of widgets, and some tools; it also includes a large ecosystem of packages to add functionality to your apps beyond what comes out of the box. Some of the most popular packages are the set that supports Firebase (aka FlutterFire). As…