Let’s be honest… Cross-platform development is by far the future of programming. We’re all experimenting it: on gaming with Unity framework, progressive web app development, and on mobile development with frameworks like Xamarin, Ionic and Flutter, the most relevant one.
Flutter is a new standard in cross-platforming development, targeting both Android and iOS operative systems, it’s also a powerful web development SDK. We are now beyond a new milestone in Flutter development from the guys at Google: Flutter for Windows.
This will potentially permit to create Windows apps without learning that unpleasant C# language and without using tricks like web-apps. It’s important to know that this feature is in alpha state and it has just been released in the “dev” branch as well as macOS and Linux app development. It’s not user-friendly yet, in fact most commands have to get through Windows shell, but if you like experimenting and you would like to create your new cool Windows app, follow this guide.
As Flutter releases a UWP app, this last one is compatible with XBox Series X, and this is a pretty exciting news! App on videogame consoles have always been unusual, except for streaming app like Netflix and Hulu. So, this new kind of app open up to innovative solutions.
You can check out this Windows app which is a Google POC of what Flutter can do with a UWP app and if you want to know more about it have a look at this article, written by Chris Sells of Flutter.
