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. Flutter 3 completes our roadmap from a mobile-centric to a multiplatform framework, with the availability of macOS and Linux desktop app support, along with improvements to Firebase integration, new productivity and performance features, and…

Areas of focus for Flutter as we build growth and momentum — Each year we, like other large teams at Google, go through a planning process to set our goals and areas of focus for the upcoming year. Normally, product teams closely guard these documents, since they may contain commercially-sensitive information or relate to areas of competitive advantage. However, as an open…

A new release of Flutter: and a look back on a year of growth — Just in time for the holidays, today we’re announcing a big update to Flutter, with a number of new features and improvements that refine the experience for mobile and web developers and bring us closer to stable support for desktop. Flutter aims to change how apps are built. It unites…

Like others, I’m tremendously sad to hear of the sudden passing of Kevin Gray, a software engineer at Very Good Ventures. Kevin and I first met when a couple of us went over to Manhattan to film a video case study for Hamilton. That he didn’t appear in the case…

…but corporations are not a person — Like my friend Miguel de Icaza, I was struck by this quote from Evan Martin’s recent blog post about leaving Google: “[Google is] ultimately not something to be anthropomorphized, but rather a faceless machine that makes often bad decisions that I don’t have any real influence over” However, unlike Miguel…

Growing momentum for the leading UI toolkit for multiplatform development — At Google I/O today, we announced Flutter 2.2, our latest release of the open source toolkit for building beautiful apps for any device from a single platform. Flutter 2.2 is the best version of Flutter yet, with updates that make it easier than ever for developers to monetize their apps…

Adjusting our investment for Dart’s open source web frameworks — Two months ago, we delivered our first stable release of web support for Flutter. This was a major milestone for client development as a whole, combining Flutter’s established UI framework, Dart’s industrial-strength JavaScript toolchain, and the underlying power of the web platform to deliver consistency across mobile devices and browsers.

Setting personal goals with OKRs — I stink at making New Year resolutions in general. Probably like most of us, I start the year with high principles that rarely translate into established habits. Within a week or two of the new year, I’ve slipped back into patterns that I know are unhealthy. It turns out that…

Native Win32 API support for Flutter and Dart — As a product manager for a developer framework and programming language, it’s not always easy to find time during the workday to write code. But I consider it a vital task in order to empathize with my customers’ needs. So I dabble here and there with various projects that pique…