On: Flutter 2

[agersant]

As a hobbyist Flutter user, I would like to be excited for this release.

However, this announcement page does not do a very good job at highlighting changes and new features from Flutter 1. The only concrete feature mentioned is the web platform being stable. Everything else is old news or plugging random companies.

The changelog (https://flutter.dev/docs/development/tools/sdk/release-notes...) looks like a dump of the VCS history, which is also useless. Sample changes:

- [flutter_tools] HACKTOBERFEST (cla: yes, tool)

- [manual roll] Roll Engine from 1ef10b240e28 to f84e7a019663 (12 revisions) (cla: yes, engine, team, waiting for tree to go green)

- use_is_even_rather_than_modulo (a: accessibility, a: tests, cla: yes, f: material design, framework, team)

I would strongly suggest adding editorialized release notes for developers.

[timsneath → agersant]

You're right! This isn't an exhaustive listing of the features in Flutter 2 or changes since Flutter 1.12 (which was our last stable release). For that, there's a separate article: https://medium.com/flutter/whats-new-in-flutter-2-0-fe8e95ec...

[PragmaticPulp → timsneath]

One suggestion: It would help if there was an easy to access demo app that I could point people to to showcase Flutter.

The flutter gallery is useful for developers, but it's not a good showcase for what a real world Flutter app would look like.

The new Flutter Folio app ( https://flutter.gskinner.com/ )looked promising, but then I had to scroll way down to see the actual app links. The Web link looked promising, but I hit a brick wall when it wanted me to register a new account before I could do anything ( https://www.flutterfolio.com/builds/latest/web-build-auto/#/ )

Can we get an accessible, up-to-date, canonical Flutter demo app that doesn't require account creation, logins, or any other friction?

[okamiueru → agersant]

I have to agree with you. Maybe especially as someone coming from using flutter exclusively for app development. Someone joked about this at work "wait, so flutter 1 did not enable developers to create beautiful, fast and portable apps for any platform?"

I had a vague idea that flutter 1 had a desktop/server like backing so that it could be used to develop desktop apps. Maybe this was incorrect, and only possible now with flutter 2? I'm still confused. This app: https://rive.app/ was made using flutter 1, no? It runs in the browser, so maybe this is the key difference with flutter 2, that... it allows native apps?