Flutter Engage Africa

This was a to cover the release update from Flutter Engage Event, where Flutter 2.0 was announced.

1. What’s Flutter Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web and desktop from a single codebase.
2. Flutter 2 This is a major upgrade to Flutter that enables developers to create beautiful, fast and portable applications for any platform
3. Why Flutter 2 - Using same codebase to ship native apps to 5 operating systems - iOS,Android, Windows, masOS, and Linux - Flutter can be embedded in cars, TVs and smart home appliances
4. Flutter For the Web - It is now stable - Focuses on 3 app scenarios - PWAs - SPAs - Bringing existing Flutter mobile apps to the web
5. - Support for null safety (Dart v-2.12) - To help devs catch common sources of app crashes - Dart FFI for accessing C-bases APIs including Win32 API used by windows apps - Can be compiled to JavaScript
6. - HTML renderer - Optimized for size and compatibility - Used by default on mobile platform - Canvas Kit renderer - Uses WebAssembly and WebGL to render Skia paint commands to the browser canvas - Used on default on desktop platforms
7. Desktops, Foldables, Embedded devices - Canonical (Ubuntu Maker) - Partnering with Google to bring Flutter to the desktop - Making Flutter the default choice for future desktop and mobile apps created by Canonical
8. - Microsoft - Contributing to support the emerging class of foldable Android devices
9. - Toyota - Building infotainment systems power by Flutter - They chose Flutter beecause: - High performance and consistency of experience - Fast iterations and developer ergonomics - Smartphone-tier touch mechanics - Ability to tailor the unique needs of an in-vehicle system using Flutter’s embedded API.
10. The growing Flutter Ecosystem - Over 15,000 for Flutter and Dart - Beta release of Google Mobile Ads for Flutter - Updates to Flutter plugins for several core Firebase services
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