Build custom renderers and render 3D scenes in Flutter. The Flutter 3.24 release introduces a new low-level graphics API called Flutter GPU. There is also a 3D rendering library powered by Flutter GPU called Flutter Scene (package: flutter_scene). Both Flutter GPU and Flutter Scene are currently in preview, only available on Flutter’s main channel (due to reliance on experimental features), require Impeller to be enabled, and might occasionally introduce breaking changes. This article contains two “getting started” guides for these packages: ? Advanced: Getting started with Flutter ..read more

An early look at Flutter GPU, web enhancements, and more! Today, we’re unveiling Flutter 3.24 and Dart 3.5 alongside the last stop in the I/O 2024 Connect series, happening in just a few hours in China — one of Flutter’s most prolific communities in the world, making this moment very special. We kicked off Google I/O in May with an exciting slew of updates, including the graduation of support for WebAssembly compilation to the stable channel, improvements to Impeller, and an early look at the future of Dart macros. The Flutter 3.24 and Dart 3.5 releases build upon our mission t ..read more

Unleashing Flutter GPU, Multi-View Embedding, and More Flutter 3.24 on a blue background Welcome to the latest Flutter update! Flutter 3.24 is packed with exciting new features and enhancements to elevate your app development experience. This release highlights the preview of Flutter GPU, which enables advanced graphics and 3D scenes directly in Flutter. Web apps can now embed multiple Flutter views, enhancing your app’s versatility. And finally, we’ve added video ad monetization support to help you maximize revenue. In the past few months, the Flutter community has been incredibly a ..read more

Adding a fun, helpful twist to a classic word game with Flutter, Firebase Genkit, and the Gemini API For this year’s I/O, Very Good Ventures partnered with the Flutter and Firebase teams at Google to create a unique, digital experience to showcase the power of the Gemini API. The fun (and challenge) of crossword puzzles is solving the clues to complete the board. A natural place to start for words and clues was everything we’ve talked about at I/O this year. To generate the game content, we gave videos of the keynotes to Gemini Advanced and asked it to create a list of topical techn ..read more

Our 10 top projects, and how to stay involved with sustainability games We asked the Flutter and Global Citizen communities to come together to build epic Flutter games that focused on helping the planet. Hundreds of innovative game projects were submitted by thousands of passionate developers spanning over 50 countries. Each project aimed to empower players with knowledge and actions that can protect our planet. From resource conservation to combating pollution, these games have raised our collective awareness of pressing environmental issues while being genuinely fun to play! We’re deeply i ..read more

WebAssembly, Graphics rendering enhancements, and more options for AI integration Welcome back for another exciting Flutter stable release! This time, we’re thrilled to present Flutter 3.22. We’re bringing WebAssembly to the stable channel, a fully featured Vulkan backend for Impeller on Android, promising smoother graphics and a major performance boost. We’re also introducing streamlined workflows with new widget state properties, dynamic view sizing, and improved form validation. But that’s not all — you’ll find flavor-conditional asset bundling, a preview of Vertex AI for Firebase in Dart ..read more

Major milestones for Flutter web apps, graphics performance upgrades, productivity experiments, and more It’s been a particularly busy last few months in Dart & Flutter air traffic control, but we’re happy to announce that Flutter 3.22 and Dart 3.4 have landed and are available today, just in time for this year’s Google I/O! We remain committed to providing a strong language and framework pairing, enabling you to build beautiful, rich, and fast apps from a single, shared code base — so you can deliver apps to users on mobile, web, and desktop — without having to fragment your pro ..read more

Cross Platform development with Flutter — How Google Classroom gets teachers and students on the same page Google’s Classroom app, which originally launched in 2014, is used by 150 million educators and students around the world to organize homework, grades, and communication in the classroom. Available on Android and iOS, development originally began earlier that year and has spanned eras of tremendous change on both mobile platforms. Managing that divergent change, it turned out, was challenging. Despite efforts toward synchronization, 7 years later in 2021, the Classroom app’s distinct ..read more

As a Flutter developer working with the Google Flutter team and personally in my private time, I encounter and understand the concerns regarding the loading speed of Flutter web apps. Optimizing loading speed is crucial for better performance and a positive user experience, especially as Flutter developers expand into web development. This guide offers actionable strategies and best practices to accelerate the performance of your Flutter web apps. Rendering CanvasKit, the default renderer for Flutter web applications, offers high performance and pixel-perfect consistency across platforms ..read more

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