Build high-quality Windows apps that also run on mobile and web — Since we launched Flutter, we’ve focused on delivering a cross-platform solution for beautiful, tailored apps that are compiled to machine code and take full advantage of the underlying graphics hardware of your device. Today marks a significant expansion of this vision with the first production release of support for Windows…

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. 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…