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Flutter 3.3 Previews New Rendering Engine
With Google’s UI framework Flutter, users can build natively-compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from one codebase. Google just announced the third Flutter release of 2022, version 3.3, and version 2.18 of Flutter’s language Dart. Both releases are refinements without significant new features. A new rendering engine called Impeller is available, but only in preview and only for iOS.
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Flutter 3 Now Stable on All Supported Platforms, Extends Material Design 3
At its recent Google I/O conference, Google announced Flutter 3, which stabilizes support for macOS and Linux, thus completing Flutter's cross-platform roadmap. Flutter 3 also brings support for Apple Silicon and a new Casual Game Toolkit.
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Flutter 2.8 and Dart 2.15 Focus on Performance Improvement
Flutter 2.8 focuses on improving app startup time, reducing memory footprint, and making it easier for developers to profile performance issues. Along with it, Google has announced a new Dart version, Dart 2.15, improving worker isolates, introducing constructor tear-off, and extending enums.
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Flutter 2 is Production-Ready for the Web, Adds New Platforms
A major update to Google's cross-platform UI Toolkit, Flutter 2 stabilizes Web support and adds new platforms, including foldable, embedded, and desktop. Alongside it, new Dart 2.12 brings null safety and Dart FFI.
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Dart and Flutter Improve Performance, Safety, and Tooling for Cross-Platform Mobile Development
The latest Dart release, Dart 2.8, focuses on preparing the ground for the introduction of null safety and brings an improved package manager. Flutter 1.17 significantly improves runtime performance while reducing binary size and memory usage. Additionally, it introduces a number of new Material widgets, including NavigationRail, updated DatePicker, and more.
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Dart 2.6 Goes Native on Linux, Windows, and MacOS
The latest version of Google programming language Dart, numbered 2.6, extends support for native, ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation with the addition of dart2native, which enables the creation of command-line programs on Linux, Windows, and MacOS.
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Flutter 1.5 Goes Multi-Platform, Includes Web Support
Announced as a technical preview at the latest Google I/O 2019 event, Flutter 1.5 aims to make it possible to create native applications for multiple platforms, including new form-factor devices, the Desktop, and the Web.
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Cross-Platform Mobile Toolkit "Flutter" Now Stable
At its Flutter Live conference, Google launched the first stable release of Flutter, a Dart-based mobile development platform aiming to make it possible to write apps that share a single code base across iOS and Android with a native UI. Additionally, Google has announced an experimental web-based implementation of Flutter’s runtime which aims to bring Flutter apps to standard web browsers.
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Dart 2.1 Brings New Language Features, Better Usability and More
Google has released Dart 2.1. This version brings new language features, performance improvements, faster type checks, and better usability for type errors.
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Google’s Cross-Platform Mobile UI Framework Flutter Now in Beta
Flutter, now in beta, is Google attempt to create a framework for cross-platform interfaces for both iOS and Android apps that behave and feel like native, although not standard, UIs.
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Dart 2 Revamped for Mobile Development
The latest version of Google’s Dart programming language, sporting a strengthened type system, cleaned-up syntax, and an improved toolchain, is being touted by Google as the way to go for Mobile and Web app development, enabling a 2–3x productivity increase.
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Dart News: Angular 2 Dart and Flutter
Angular 2 Dart and Flutter were the most important news mentioned at the recent Dart Developer Summit 2016.
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Angular 2 Split, Dart Codebase Separated
Since its inception, the Angular 2 project has compiled TypeScript down to both JavaScript and Dart. With the final release on the horizon, the Dart portion has been spun off into its own codebase with its own team.
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With Flutter, Google Aims Dart to Mobile App Cross-Development
Flutter is a new open-source framework built by Google that aims to enable cross-platform development using a single Dart codebase on iOS and Android. It aims to provide high performance and 60fps, jitter-free experiences on both platforms.
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Google Moves Dart to GitHub and Kills the Chrome Dev Editor
Google designed Dart as a better language for the web, for developers who wanted a more solid language and tools than what existed in the JavaScript ecosystem. Also, they aimed for better performance. While Dart is certainly more robust and better designed than JavaScript and it outperforms JavaScript on several benchmarks, the language has seen several setbacks.