…and a brief meditation on the impermanence of life — I love the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes for its meditations on our purpose on this earth. In sharp contrast to a world today, where many claim simple answers to life’s most profound questions, the book’s author dwells on his human frailty in a universe of which our existence is…

A suite of packages providing Windows Runtime, COM, and Win32 API support for Dart — At any point in time, I normally have a variety of small experiments and hobby projects at various stages of development. As a product manager for developer frameworks or languages, it’s important to make time to explore and use your own product. …

Major updates to graphics performance, web integration, developer productivity and security in Flutter 3.10 — We’re delighted to be back for this year’s Google I/O, streaming live around the world from near our headquarters in Mountain View, California! Just over three months ago, we introduced a bold new roadmap for Flutter and Dart at Flutter Forward in Nairobi, Kenya. At I/O, we’re sharing our progress…

Or, “things I wish others had told me when I became a product manager” — I was late to product management as a career. For most of my formative years at Microsoft, I worked in developer relations roles: working with early adopters, crafting messaging and demos for events, writing content for a broad developer audience, and helping teams understand their customers. These skills and experiences…

A guide to our strategy and areas of investment — As an open source project, we believe that we serve our customers best when we are transparent about our roadmap. For developers who adopt a technology like Flutter, it’s not enough for a product to merely offer a useful set of features. A dependency on Flutter is also a long-term…

Setting out our vision at the Flutter Forward event in Nairobi — Today we’re excited to share our vision for Flutter at Flutter Forward, our developer event streaming live from Nairobi, Kenya, as developers from around the world gather in-person and online to learn about future directions for Flutter. Flutter is a UI toolkit that enables app developers to build for mobile…

A great way to learn Dart and have fun in the process — Happy Christmas! This year’s Advent of Code is over, and it was tremendous fun as always. I’ve enjoyed doing the (easier) challenges over the years, but this year we thought it would be fun to have a private leaderboard for Dart entries. This was a spur of the moment thing…

Flutter 3.3, a beautiful new app, work on improving performance, and a note of farewell — Greetings from the beautiful Norwegian capital of Oslo, where members of the Flutter community are gathering for the Flutter Vikings conference. Flutter Vikings is a two day community-driven developer event with three tracks of content from experts who have traveled from across the world. Over five thousand developers have registered…

The culmination of our journey to multiplatform UI development on phone, desktop, and web — We’re delighted to announce the launch of Flutter 3 as part of the Google I/O keynote. …