GOOGLE’S FLUTTER 1.20 STABLE ANNOUNCED WITH NEW FEATURES

1. GOOGLE’S FLUTTER 1.20STABLE ANNOUNCED WITH NEWFEATURES • Posted byShivamSrivastava • CategoriesDart,Developers, Flutter • DateAugust 7, 2020 • Comments0 comment • Flutter Google cross-platform UI framework has released a new version 1.20stable. • Flutter is Google’s UI framework to make apps for Android, iOS, Web, Windows, Mac, Linux, and Fuchsia OS. Since the last 2 years, the flutter Framework has already achieved popularity among mobile developers to develop Android and iOS apps. In the last few releases, Flutter also added the support of makingweb • applications and desktopapplications. • Last month they introduced the support of the Linux desktop app that can be distributed through Canonical Snap Store(Snapcraft), this enables the developers to publish there Linux desktop app for their users and publish on Snap Store.If you want to learn how to Publish Flutter Desktop app in Snap Store that here is the tutorial. • Flutter 1.20 Framework is built on Google’s made Dart programming language that is a cross-platform language providing native performance, new UI widgets, and other more features for the developerusage. • Here are the few key points of thisrelease: • Performance improvements for Flutter andDart • In this release, they have got multiple performance improvements in the Dart language itself. A new improvement is to reduce the app size in the release versions of the app. Another performance improvement is to reduce junk in the display of app animation by using the warm-upphase.

2. If your app is junk information during the first run then the Skia Shading Language shader provides for pre-compilation as part of your app’s build. This can speed it up by more than2x. Added a better support of mouse cursors for web and desktop flutter app,. Now many widgets will show cursor on top of them or you can specify the type of supported cursor youwant. Autofill for mobile textfields Autofill was already supported in native applications now its been added to the Flutter SDK. Now prefilled information stored by your OS can be used for autofill in theapplication.Thisfeaturewillbeavailablesoonontheflutterweb.

3. A new widget forinteraction is a new widget design for common interactions in your applike InteractiveViewer pan, zoom drag and drop for resizing the widget. Informations on this you can check more on this API documentation where you can try this widget on the DartPad. In this release, drag-drop has more features added like you can know precisely where the drop happened and get theposition. Updated Material Slider, RangeSlider, TimePicker, and DatePicker In this new release, there are many pre-existing widgets that were updated to match the latest material guidelines, these updates include betterinteraction with andRangeSlider, with support for date range andtime Slider DatePicker picker with the newstyle.

4. pubspec.yaml New format Other than these widget updates there is some update within the project alsolike in file format. If you area flutter plugin publisher then your pubspec.yaml old is no longer supported to publish a plugin as the olderformat pubspec.yaml does not specify for which platform plugin you are making. All existing plugin will continue to work with flutter apps but you should make a plugin update as soon as possible. Preview of embedded Dart DevTools in Visual Studio Code Visual Studio code flutter extension got an update in this release. You get a preview of new features where you can analyze that Dev tools in your codingworkspace. Enable this feature in your vs codeby setting.Dart dart.previewEmbeddedDevTools DevToolsmenuyoucanchooseyourfavoritepageembedonyourcodeworkspace. Networktracking The updated the Dev tools comes with the network page that enables network profiling. You can track the timings and other information like status and content type of your network calls within your app. You can also monitor gRPCtraffic.

5. Generate type-safe platform channels for platform interop Pigeon is a command-line tool that will generate types of safe platform channels without adding additional dependencies. With this instead of manually matching method strings on platform channel and serializing arguments, you can invoke native class and pass nonprimitive data objects by directly calling theDartmethod. There is still a long list of updates in the new version of Flutter 1.2 that we cannot cover in this blog. You can get more details you can visit the official site to know more. Also, you can subscribe to the Navoki newsletter to get updates on these features and upcoming new updates and lessons. In upcoming new versions, we might see more new features andimprovements.