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  • Flutter for Web (2019)

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    In 2019, Google announced experimental support for building web applications with Flutter, expanding its capabilities beyond mobile. This laid the groundwork for Flutter’s future cross-platform capabilities.

  • Flutter 1.0 (December 2018)

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    Flutter 1.0 was officially released at the Flutter Live event. This release marked Flutter’s transition to a stable framework, allowing developers to build production-quality applications. Key features included hot reload, a rich set of pre-designed widgets, and support for iOS and Android.

  • Beta Release (2018)

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    Flutter entered its beta phase in early 2018, with significant improvements in performance, tooling, and documentation. This phase saw an increase in community engagement and contributions.

  • Alpha Release (2017)

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    In early 2017, Flutter was made available as an alpha release. This marked the first time developers could start building applications with Flutter and provided initial feedback on its capabilities.

  • Early Development (2016)

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    Flutter’s early development focused on providing a framework that allowed for expressive UI and smooth animations. Google started to refine the toolkit, emphasizing its ability to render UI at 60 frames per second.

  • Initial Announcement (2015)

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    Flutter was first announced at the Dart Developer Summit in November 2015. Initially known as “Sky,” it was designed to enable high-performance applications on both iOS and Android.

  • Lack of native widgets

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    The fact that Flutter doesn’t use native widgets can be an advantage, but also a drawback of this SDK. Why? Because if you decide to build an app using the Flutter framework, and then a new version of iOS or Android is launched, then your app will not update to the newest UI changes. This case…

  • Not many experienced Flutter developers

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    There are still relatively few experienced Flutter developers on the market. That’s why it can be harder to build a team of seasoned professionals if you choose Flutter over React Native.

  • Lack of more advanced features

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    Flutter is still missing some more advanced features and might not be the best solution for more sophisticated apps:

  • Experimentation phase

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    Flutter is still a relatively new platform which comes with its own set of issues. It’s still under constant development, so some edge cases might not have solutions that are ready for implementation. We will see whether that’s going to change soon enough, but you might want to wait till then to use Flutter if you’re not…