Google’s goals of simplifying cross-platform app development take another leap forward today with the announcement of Flutter Release Preview 2 at Google Developer Days China in Shanghai. This is an important milestone in Flutter’s history, as it is the last major release before Flutter 1.0 is launched, and allows us to truly get a feel for what the first full version of Flutter will look like.
Flutter has come a long way even since Flutter Release Preview 1, becoming one of the top 50 most active open source software repos on GitHub (ahead of industry heavyweights like Django and RxJava). While Google is being careful to make iron out as many issues as possible before the final release, they already feel that it is production ready, and it shows in both the excitement from the community and in its implementation in large apps from developers like Alibaba, Tencent, and even Google themselves.
Speaking of the open source community, it truly has been a critical part of Flutter’s growth, with the community building numerous websites and tutorials for Flutter, including some fantastic tools like Flutter Studio. Google recognizes how important the community has been to Flutter, and were quite proud to tell us that in their recent community survey, they found that 92% of developers were either satisfied or very satisfied with Flutter, which is a great indication of how quickly it can continue to grow once the stable version is released.
As mentioned above, this will be the last beta Flutter version before Google launches stable Flutter, and is an excellent time to get in, see what Flutter has to offer, and submit feature requests, bug reports, and code pull requests to help shape Flutter into a tool that fits your use case.
If you want to try Flutter Release Preview 2 and are already using one of the Flutter beta versions, upgrading is as simple as typing $ flutter upgrade. If you’re not on the beta channel yet, flutter.io can quickly walk you through installation.
How has your experience with Flutter been so far? Are you planning on using it in your app once the Stable Flutter 1.0 launches? Let us know in the comments below!
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