In case you missed it, the Flutter team attended Google Cloud Next for the first time this past week, a testament to Flutter’s growing impact within the development community. We partnered with teams across Google Cloud, Firebase, Very Good Ventures, and Serverpod to deliver lightning talks, sessions, and a demo booth with a focus on streamlined workflows. Here’s a review of what we shared in case you missed it. Fast Development with Firestore, Cloud Run, and FlutterWe worked in real-time to develop a minimal viable Flutter app, backed by a Firestore database through a Google Cloud Run-p ..read more

Accessibility in Flutter on the web How Flutter aims to make canvas-rendered apps accessible to users of assistive technologies One of the target platforms the Flutter framework supports is the web. Flutter applications guarantee pixel perfection and platform consistency through rendering all UI onto a canvas element. This case study explains how accessibility support works for such canvas-rendered Flutter apps. Flutter has a large number of default widgets that generate an accessibility tree automatically. An accessibility tree is a tree of accessibility objects that assistive tech ..read more

The Global Gamers Challenge is nearing its conclusion, and it’s time to unveil the 20 projects progressing to the final round of judging. It’s been incredibly inspiring to see thousands of developers work together to develop epic games for the planet with Flutter and Dart over the last 9 weeks. Entries included RPGs, platformers, AI-powered, and more. Your creative ideas spanned continents, genres, formats, platforms, and even galaxies! Your creativity never fails to amaze us, so our panel of Flutter judges had some tough decisions to make as they evaluated hundreds of games from talente ..read more

Last year saw a major update to the Flutter Casual Games toolkit. This week, Flutter made its debut at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, the game industry’s premier professional event, championing game developers and the advancement of their craft. Read on to see progress developers have made building games on Flutter, and what’s in store for the future of Flutter game development. Flutter for Games hero image Since the launch of the Flutter Casual Games Toolkit, Flutter has made strong progress within the game development arena. More than 15,000 new mobile games have ..read more

You might be familiar with Global Citizen (GC), an organization dedicated to ending world poverty and helping the planet. When GC wanted to rewrite a mobile app to help with this effort, they reached out to our studio, L+R, to collaborate on designing, building, and launching the app simultaneously on Android and iOS. Flutter’s flexibility, pre-built widget catalog, and robust animation capabilities allowed the L+R team to implement a design-led development process. When using Flutter, our developers have a blank canvas to bring custom designs to life. For L+R, this means our design teams ..read more

Revolutionizing App Development with the Gemini API, Impeller Updates, and Windows Arm64 Support Today we present you with a new Flutter release, Flutter 3.19. This release brings a new Dart SDK for Gemini, a widget enabling developers to add fine-grained control to widget animations, a rendering boost with updates to Impeller, tooling to help implement deep links, Windows Arm64 support and so much more! The Flutter community continues to impress, merging 1429 pull requests by 168 community members, with 43 community members committing their first Flutter pull requests! Keep reading ..read more

An introduction, two new SDK releases, and bringing Flutter and Dart into the Gemini era We’re excited to announce the first of this year’s quarterly SDK releases for Flutter and Dart — Flutter 3.19 and Dart 3.3, along with some exciting announcements involving AI. Flutter and Dart’s value and future I recently joined the Flutter and Dart team, and am excited to work with our developer community at a time when AI is moving quickly to enhance developer productivity and unlock new types of user experiences. I see endless potential in Flutter and Dart’s role in helping to shape this fu ..read more

As an open source project with a thriving community, we strive to be transparent about our plans, with everything from issues to design specifications being shared in the open. We’ve heard a great deal of interest in Flutter’s feature roadmap. These kinds of roadmaps can be challenging in terms of predictability, as those plans tend to shift and adapt throughout the year, but we still feel it’s important to share our overall plans, with the stated caveat: plans may change. We’ve been publishing our roadmaps since 2020, and today we’re sharing our 2024 roadmap. This is a natural continuati ..read more

Introducing the Google AI Dart SDK We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Google AI Dart SDK for the Gemini API. The new pub.dev package, google_generative_ai, and supporting resources enable you to build your own generative AI-based features into Dart and Flutter apps through an idiomatic Dart integration with the Gemini API. It opens the door to a vast range of possibilities for building intelligent, performant applications for Android, iOS, web, macOS, Windows, and Linux from a single code base. With the Google AI Dart SDK, you can: Easily integrate generative AI featu ..read more

Extreme UI Adaptability in Flutter — How Google Earth supports every use case on earth When Google Earth set out to rewrite their mobile and web clients in Flutter, they knew they wanted to allow each and every one of their users to explore the planet however they liked, on whatever devices they owned. This had long been true to an extent; after all, Google Earth had existing web, desktop, Android, and iOS clients. But this rewrite, which would cover all of those targets other than desktop, would need to support the superset of existing use cases; plus a few new adaptability ideas the Ear ..read more