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The first version of Flutter was released in May 2017, but it was first announced in 2015. In December 2018, Google released Flutter 1.0. In December 2019, Flutter 1.12 was released.

The four main elements of Flutter are:

Sky is the first version of Flutter which ran on Android OS. It was announced at the 2015 Dart developer summit with the stated goal of being able to render consistently at 120 frames per second.

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Flutter is an open source software development kit (SDK) UI used for cross-platform applications from a single codebase. Flutter is primarily used for creating natively compiled, multi-platform applications across iOS and Android seamlessly.

While creating a Flutter project, a particular type of file is always included at the top of the project. This file is known as the pubspec.yaml file, also called ‘pubspec’. This file contains information about a project’s dependencies, such as packages and their versions, typefaces, and so on. It ensures that the package version is…

Streams provide an asynchronous sequence of data. Asynchronous programming uses the idea of streams. They refer to a program’s asynchronous succession of data occurrences. We put a value on one end and a listener on the other, similar to a pipe. Several listeners can be combined into a single stream, and when they are placed…

A set of IDs for Widgets, Elements and SemanticsNodes make up the key class. Keys are responsible for preserving the state of widgets when they are updated inside the widget tree. Keys may also be used to modify and rearrange collections of widgets of the same type and defined states. Otherwise, keys may be superfluous…

Because Flutter generates a device-specific IPA or APK file, building a Flutter application takes substantially longer the first time. This method, which normally takes a long time, uses Xcode and Gradle to build a file.

Since Flutter is still a relatively new tool, it has some limitations. They are as follows: