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Google's Cross-Platform Flutter SDK Moves Out of Beta With Release Preview 1

Accepted submission by takyon at 2018-06-21 09:49:19
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Google has updated a mobile framework [theregister.co.uk] that targets Android, iOS, and the in-development Google Fuchsia OS:

On Wednesday, Google's cross-platform mobile framework Flutter [flutter.io] reached Preview Release 1, a designation that places the code somewhere between buggy beta and less buggy 1.0.

"The shift from beta to release preview signals our confidence in the stability and quality of what we have, and our focus on bug fixing and stabilization," said Google group product manager Tim Sneath in a blog post [medium.com].

Introduced in May 2017, Flutter [theregister.co.uk] provides a way for Linux, macOS and Windows developers to create mobile apps in the Dart [dartlang.org] programming language that can run on Android, iOS or Google Fuchsia [theregister.co.uk], an operating system that Google is working on.

Apps would be bundled with the Flutter engine [arstechnica.com]:

Flutter is Google's second swing at a mobile SDK (the first being a little platform called "Android"). Flutter's claim to fame is that it's cross-platform—Flutter apps run on Android and iOS—and it's really fast. Flutter apps sidestep the app platforms of Android and iOS and instead run on the Flutter rendering engine (written in C++) and Flutter framework (written in Google's Dart language, just like Flutter apps). When it's time to ship a Flutter app off to Google's and Apple's respective app stores, the requisite Flutter engine code gets bundled up with the app code, and the Flutter SDK spits out Android and iOS versions of your single code base. Each version comes complete with built-in app themes for Android or iOS, so they still feel like native apps. Along with Android and iOS, Flutter is also the platform used for apps in Google's experimental Fuchsia OS [arstechnica.com].

Related: Google's New Non-Linux OS: Fuchsia [soylentnews.org]
Google's Not-So-Secret New OS [soylentnews.org]
Google Fuchsia UI Previewed [soylentnews.org]
Google to Add Swift Language Support to Fuchsia OS [soylentnews.org]


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