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Google Announces Flutter 2.0 For The Web And Desktop Apps

On March 3, the search engine giant Google has released a stable version of Flutter 2.0, one of the most desperately awaited stables releases of Flutter. The team of developers has revealed the primary goal behind bringing Flutter 2 is to enable Flutter app developers to build a robust application with an unmatchable experience. You may raise the question- what makes Flutter 2.0 so special? Read on to get your answer!

Flutter 2.0- What’s New, What’s Better?

With the launch of Flutter 2.0, developers have closed over 24000 issues and merged 17.039 PRs from over 765 contributors. Even volunteer PR reviewers have done a good job and reviewed 1525 PRs. Talking about the new features, Flutter 2.0 has come up with support for web and desktop app development.

Since its initial release, Flutter has remained a preferred choice of developers worldwide. The developer community of Flutter will soon cross 500,000 members. As the platform has gained the title of the developer’s homeland, with the announcement of the Flutter 2.0 version, its thriving community has changed the name from DevTools to FlutterDevTools.

Let’s understand the major features and fixes of the latest Flutter version along with its impact on mobile app development services.

Support for Web

You can hire Flutter developers for developing web and desktop apps as well. Yes, the stable Flutter 2.0 release has made it possible by extending support for the web platform. With this, Google’s Flutter has taken the code reusability to another level. Flutter 2.0 release is significant as it has changed its document-centric approach to the app-centric approach. Now, when you hire Flutter developers they can build apps on the web platforms including Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, and develop web applications as well.

With this Flutter 2.0 offers enhanced APIs for developing interactive 2D and 3D graphics. A Canvas-Kit-based renderer will accompany the existing HTML renderer in the latest version. A Link widget enables developers to get a web-app-like feel in the browser they choose.

Read More: https://www.suriainternational.com/flutter-2-0/

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