There are over 1.5 MILLION developers building with Flutter every month 🤯🎉
That’s over 50% growth from a little over a year ago. It's been incredible to continue to see the Flutter community grow!
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Introducing Agent Skills for Flutter and Dart to give your AI tools domain-specific expertise 📓
These initial core Skills are designed to handle the most common Flutter development hurdles. Learn how to start using them in your workflow → goo.gle/4uBRR6M
The #GoogleIO livestream schedule is here 🎪
Join us online May 19–20 for keynotes and sessions covering AI, Android, Chrome, and Cloud.
Explore the program → goo.gle/io2026-1
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Dart 3.11 is officially here! 🎯
This release slashes development friction with faster Analyzer Plugins (saving ~10s on startup!) and helps you reclaim disk space with the new dart pub cache gc command.
Get the full breakdown of what’s new → blog.dart.dev/b6529be4203a
We just dropped Flutter 3.38.5 with one fix – updating the Dart SDK to 3.10.5 – which fixed a number of issues with dot shorthands and the new Deprecated annotations.
If you have any feedback on this release, please report it here: github.com/flutter/flutter/i…
Did you know that you can edit your code and add packages to your Flutter app by connecting the Flutter Extension for Gemini CLI with the Dart & Flutter MCP server?
Github → goo.gle/gemini-cli-extension…
Are you building your app’s search experience from scratch? 🔎
The Material library’s SearchBar & SearchAnchor work together to provide a smooth and seamless search & suggestion experience right out of the box.
#WidgetOfTheWeek#ThrowbackThursday
Introducing Firebase Phone Number Verification: One-tap phone number sharing 👉📱
Firebase PNV can quickly get your app the verified number of the device it's running on, eliminating costly SMS phishing and traffic pumping attacks.
Read the blog → goo.gle/47dkHA5
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Flutter 3.35.6 was just released, containing 2 fixes and improvements 🔨
Check out the CHANGELOG for details here → goo.gle/48VCwWO
If you have any feedback on this release, please report it here: github.com/flutter/flutter/i…
flutter_soloud helps you add low-latency sound and music to your Flutter apps with support for streaming audio, MP3, WAV, OGG, and FLAC. 🎶
Follow along in this #WidgetOfTheWeek ↓
Did you know: The first time that a map is shown, the Google Maps SDK on Flutter for Android may briefly block the main thread, causing UI jank.
You can pre-warm the SDK by calling `GoogleMapsFlutterAndroid.warmup()` before showing your maps!
Example → goo.gle/47yXKJm
Flutter 3.35 is made possible by YOU.
This release includes:
🩵 1108 commits
🩵 168 unique contributors
🩵 39 first-time contributors
As always, we're sending a big thank you to the Flutter community. We couldn't do it without you!
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Home is where the widget is. ⚙️🩵
The HomeWidget plugin makes it easier to create HomeScreen widgets on Android and iOS.
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