#flutter 3

[crestinfosystems]

What's New in Flutter 3: Everything You Need to Know

Google developed Flutter many years ago, intending to build the best cross-platform software framework for mobile applications. One of the greatest advantages of using Flutter is that it can help build robust and scalable mobile applications for multiple platforms, such as Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, and even the web, using the same codebase. 

Although both Windows and Linux were in beta when building apps for Windows back in February, those platforms were still in stable support. But that has changed thanks to Flutter 3, which stably supports macOS and Linux during this year's Google I/O. In its announcement, Google highlights two points: The first is the low-cost Linux support provided by Canonical (Ubuntu’s publisher) and Google's collaboration to "offer a highly-integrated, best-of-breed development environment for developers".

Thanks to the hard work of our Flutter contributors who made Flutter now stable for macOS and Linux, in addition to Windows. There are various exciting things to come with the release of the Flutter 3 version, including the update on Flutter’s support for macOS and Linux, huge performance enhancements, mobile & web updates, and many more. 

Research shows that more than 91% of developers agreed that Flutter is a much smoother and seamless platform that doesn’t take much time to create and publish an application. On top of that, around 85% of developers mentioned that they could publish their app on multiple platforms than before. 

This article will explore what’s new in Flutter 3, including new features, performance improvements, and recent updates one by one. Let us dive in!

What’s New in Flutter 3?

Let us get a close look to see what’s next in the new release of Flutter 3.

Firebase Support in Flutter

There are more tools and services needed by app publishers than just the UI framework to allow them to move forward in terms of developing, releasing, and operating the apps, including data authentication, device testing, cloud functionality, and storage. Various services like AppWrite, Sentry, and AWS Amplify have received Flutter’s back for enhanced functionality.

Research shows that over 63% of app developers make use of Firebase in their mobile applications. The suite of Firebase plugins for Flutter has now become a key part of Firebase's offering in response to the real-life reality and the growth of Flutter. That means plugins now come under the Firebase’s repo and website. In addition to this, Google focuses on building new Flutter widgets that make it easier to use Firebase in your application.

Additionally, you can now get an overview of your app's stability via the Firebase Crashlytics plugin, which will allow you to identify the bugs simply by tracking the errors. They are built around critical metrics such as "crash-free users", which make it easy for you to keep an eye on the stability of your app.

Linux and macOS Support

In the days when Flutter was released, the developers' community was highly appreciative of it - Flutter is, to this day, considered to be the most powerful cross-platform development framework on the market. It is now also possible to build apps for Windows, Web, and embedded devices directly from the framework, in addition to Android and iOS apps. 

Flutter developers no longer face any challenges in creating applications for macOS and Linux devices since Flutter 3 is now available. Developers no longer have to do the tedious work of adding platforms to their products.

Gradle version update

You might have noticed that the generated files in Flutter 3 use the latest versions of the Gradle and Android Gradle plugins while creating a new project using the Flutter tool. While in an older version of Flutter, you used to crash the versions to 7.4 for Gradle, and 7.1.2 for the Android Gradle plugin manually.

Dart 2.17

The latest version of Flutter 2.17 features a new Dart SDK, a version with a new language - regardless of whether you use Flutter, these new features are accessible to all developers. 

The hallmark feature of Dart 2.17 offers app developers the ability to extend enums and override its default functions quickly and more efficiently. It allows enums to work very similarly to custom-written classes.

Flutter’s Games Toolkit

The Flutter 3 is way more focused on casual gamers and has released an easy-to-use casual games tool kit for game developers. It comes as a starter kit of templates and credits for Ads, and cloud services. 

The most interesting fact about Flutter 3 is that its engineers have created a fun pinball game powered by Firebase and Flutter’s web support, showing the versatility of the latest Flutter 3 update.

Theme Extensions

Theme Extensions allow app developers to add anything to the ThemeData of the material library. Developers no longer need to extend ThemeData and implement copyWith, lerp, and other methods, and they can now mention ThemeData.extensions to get their job done in no time. In addition, they can offer ThemeExtensions as a package developer.

Menu Cascading and Support for the MacOS System 

The latest version of Flutter offers a wide range of features, including interactive models for compilation to build support, internationalization, and fresh inputs for platform-specific integration, and offers the best accessibility. 

The main objective for all these updates is to offer complete flexibility in using the operating system and share optimal UI and logic based on requirements more effectively. The new features of Flutter offer great support to the platform beyond rendering pixels.

Ads

With the new release of Flutter 3, it is now possible to create personalized ads based on the unique needs of publishers and manage Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATTT) requirements. Google provides a User Messaging Platform (UMP) SDK that substitutes the previous open-source Consent SDK.

Web and Mobile Updates in Flutter 3

Let us take a look at the following features of Flutter 3 in terms of web and mobile

For Mobile Updates

iOS Variable Refresh Rate Support

Flutter 3 will now support variable refresh rates on iOS devices that have ProMotion displays, along with iPhone 13 Pro and iPad Pro. The increase in refresh rates for Flutter apps from 60 Hz to 120 Hz can provide smoother animations on these devices than they had earlier been able to. 

Foldable Phone Support

Foldable mobile devices will be supported and will have a great collaboration with Microsoft. With these new features of Flutter 3, Flutter app developers can now create dynamic and productive experiences on foldable devices. 

Streamlined iOS Releases

Flutter 3 offers a new option to create an ipa command that helps app developers to launch their iOS applications more efficiently than before. 

For Web Updates

Web App lifecycle

Flutter 3 comes with its new lifecycle API for web applications that gives complete flexibility for developers with full control over the bootstrap process of their Flutter app from the hosting HTML page. 

This helps Lighthouse to determine the speed of your app and can be applied to various use cases to streamline the development process.

Image Decoding

The image decoding feature in Flutter 3 made it possible for Flutter Web to perceive and use the imagecoder API in the browser automatically. Asynchronously, this API decodes images with the browser's codecs to ensure there is no interruption to the main thread. 

Thus, images will run twice as fast without blocking the main thread, and it will remove all the junk caused by images previously.

Significant Improvements in Flutter 3

The development of Flutter isn't just about the extended platform support of the framework. In addition to the new support for Material Design 3, the framework has added a host of other features and functionalities to make it easy to use.

Furthermore, Flutter is now fully native to Apple silicon for development. When Flutter was released, it was compatible with Apple M1-powered devices. Now, Flutter takes full advantage of Dart's support for Apple silicon, enabling much faster compilation on M1 devices and universal binaries for macOS application development.

What to Expect Next in Flutter?

The major highlight of Flutter 3 is that it is now available on 6 different platforms: Android, iOS, Web, Windows, Mac, and Linux. Now the next and most important question that people may have is ‘what to expect next in Flutter?’

According to Google's product manager for Flutter, Tim Sneath, the project will support both Chrome and Firefox. The goal of building support for those platforms has been to provide Flutter with a robust platform to develop. 

Moreover, Google will continue to enhance Flutter in two significant areas: improving developer productivity and expanding its capabilities in the upcoming years.

Closing Line

Therefore, it can be said that the latest release of Flutter 3.0 shows the massive success of Google, which will attract many more businesses to join its community. As a result, the Flutter community is expected to grow continually much faster with the increasing number of Flutter applications. Finding technology better than Flutter is a question to think about when building applications for multiple platforms to cover a wide range of audiences and provide the best experiences. 

If you are planning to build an application for multiple platforms and are not sure how to get started, I would recommend you hire an experienced Flutter developer from a leading Flutter app development company that can help build robust, scalable, and feature-rich applications at affordable prices.

[pokimoko]

Asexual bird? Please

How about two asexual birds?

[inklore]

come for me if you must but colin and penelope’s first kiss was way more hard hitting than any of the other kisses in bridgerton. it wasn’t fast and wild or trying to prove something. it was slow. gentle. a friend helping out another friend with just a simple peck that could have ended there. but no they pulled back and looked at each other and got lost in with another and kissed again. deepened it. both acting as if it would be the only and last time. colin panting into her mouth. his fingers on her cheek. we have been waiting to see this kiss for two seasons. eighteen episodes. penelope has been waiting for this kiss since they were kids. like!! their kiss holds so much more meaning!! hits harder!! i’m sorry but nothing can top it.

[battiegutz]

must feed the swinbee enjoyers.... how tf do ppl draw kissing😵‍💫

[rainscenes]

EVAN BUCKLEY 8.09 | Sob Stories

[mamawasatesttube]

not to be predictable but i keep thinking about this post as timkon... like WHERE is tim in a hospital bed being the worst patient known to mankind, throwing a whole tantrum because he doesn't LIKE being drugged and he wants to LEAVE and yes he KNOWS that's against medical advice but LISTEN HERE he KNOWS you have discharge against medical advice forms and he WANTS ONE, NOW--

and then kon walks in and his blood pressure on the monitor visibly decreases. no more yelling and grousing and bitching. instantly just oh 🥺 hi kon 🥺 kissy please? 🥺 👉 👈

[funnytooncircus]

ok guys heres your easter toons art finally

[friedunicornstudio]

Scarlet pre-DLC paradox Pokémon speedpaints!

Between two and three hours for most of these paintings, except for Walking Wake and Roaring Moon who went a little into overtime and clocked closer to 4 hours.

[gracebethartacc]

MY FRIENDS!!!! <3333

[crazylittleflood]

Sibling Survivors au drawing!

This may or may not contain significant au lore (reblogs greatly appreciated!)

[michellemouse]

RAREEEZZ!!! THE ULTRA MEGA RARES!!! THE EXTREMELY RAREEEZZZZ🔥🔥‼️‼️💥<-(idiot)

Common Toons / Uncommon Toons/ Main Toons

[chasedeys]

Sometimes it becomes one of those games where it's like Ja'Marr is going crazy. Basically whatever the look is, I'm throwing it to him.

[tojisun]

Twirling my hair kicking my feet and giggling 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🫦🫦🫦🫦🫦🫦🫦🫦

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6zJgc0PzA9/?igsh=ajJyOWNoeTN3YzF5

FUCK

IM EATING A ROCK OH MY GOOORD

goddd the way he sped up just enough to scold her and make her pull over bc she dont got her jacket zipped all the way up! AND THE WAY HES TOWERING OVER HER but not all up in her space too—

god this is so biker!simon coded fr :((

simon barks at you in such a thick, lilting manchester accent in his anger-turned-worry and he’s doing that thing where he’s reaching towards you, only to abort the action, and then re-start that again because god he just wants you safe but you tend to be such a fucking hardheaded brat.

“can we go now?” you grumble before scrunching your nose at him cheekily.

simon snarls at you, then pauses to give you a grin, before he snaps your visor down. as he marches to his bike, you turn and make eye-contact, or however it is with your helmet on, with johnny.

johnny brings his fists up and makes a twisting action. you throw up your middle fingers at him.

[sourcxre]

all the dandy redesigns

finally got to em all (and dont ask about pebbles, hes just a rock, he doesnt need to be redesigned)

i hope you like them but if there's something youd change or would do differently, try doing it yourself (/pos) and test your creativity with simple characters, its a good exercise

thank you <3

[positivelypinkpony]

Flutter Line from The Runaway Rainbow (GBA) 🦄 ✨ 🌈

This unicorn is very obscure and only appears as a background character in the cartoon and minor character in the GBA game!

[jesuistrestriste]

thinking about walking in on art frotting w patrick and they both look up and whimper when u enter the room:/ they beg you to stay and watch them finish all over each other’s toned tummies; rubbing and smearing their mixed spend between their hips when they finally let go together <3