Flutter 2.0: All about the new Updates for App Development
Over 150,000 Flutter applications have so far been launched into the Google Play Store. The open-source app development framework has been widely accepted by the developer community. No surprises thus that Flutter 2.0 was a much awaited launch. Is it just hype with no substance? Or will Flutter 2.0 change application development? Let’s dig in. For starters, Flutter 2.0 is now a complete UI toolkit with a clear potential to build apps for any platform -the mobile, the desktop, the web, or even the emerging form factors such as foldable devices. How did Flutter 1.0 fare? Flutter 1.0 supported only Android and iOS apps while it still could run on mobile devices, desktop, and embedded systems. Google eventually added more features, so it could run on the web as well. Flutter 1.0 offered 2Dimensions while due to Dart 2.1, it enjoyed a smaller code size, faster type checks etc and great speed. It had powerful compositing capabilities and had a full set of ...