![]() The other big announcement from I/O was the availability of Dart 3.0! Dart 3.0 comes with a number of exciting new features such as records, sealed classes, pattern matching and a complete migration to 100% sound null safety, which enables both developers to write safer code and the Dart compiler to produce faster, more efficient machine code! Here let me quote from the announcement of Dart 3: In addition to a whole swag of improvements to graphics performance on iOS, there is also new support for loading APNG’s and better loading of local images.Īnother big quality of life win is wireless debugging for iOS devices and many improvements and new features for the Devtools including that the console now supports evaluations for a running app in debug mode and a new embedded Perfetto trace viewer. To learn more about using M3 in your Flutter apps, check out the fantastic article from Codemagic’s very own Taha Tesserįor deployment to the Web, Flutter 3.10 has seen a number of performance improvements, support for element embedding and experimental support for compiling to WASM. There was also coverage of the latest updates to the Material library to match the latest Material 3 (M3) spec, with M3 set to become the default in the next stable release. When we talk about Apple silicon, we can’t help but mention that your favorite CI/CD provider Codemagic was the first to provide Mac mini M1 build machines to the public! Take advantage of the blazing fast speeds for your Flutter builds! For details, please refer to the docs. You can read more about Impeller and the benefits it brings on the Flutter web site. Impeller means that Flutter is able to precompile the shaders it needs when running on iOS is the Flutter team’s solution to Flutter’s early-onset jank issue. Work is also well under way to add support for Android and should soon be available for preview by adventerous developers. Google have been working on the Impeller rendering runtime for Flutter as a replacement for the widely used Skia graphics library for some time now and it was announced that Impeller is now enabled by default for iOS. You can explore the list of new features and improvements in the post on introducing Flutter 3.10.īy the way, Flutter 3.10 is already available on Codemagic! Impeller In the developer keynote, Google announced Flutter 3.10 and called out the new Impeller rendering backend and the new JNI based FFI bridge that allows Dart code to call Kotlin directly. ![]() Let’s kick the discussion off with coverage of our favorite framework: Flutter! It was a big set of announcements with the latest release of Flutter and Dart including a big one for Dart, so let’s get into the details. This included access for developers to Google’s LLMs with the “MakerSuite” product and “Studio Bot” inside Android Studio. Of course as with Sundar’s keynote, AI and LLM’s were everywhere in the developer keynote as well. Of course apart from all the mentions of AI related products and services, there were a few hardware annoucements, including from the Pixel line:īut AI of course made it into the mobile product line too, with the announcement and demo of the “Magic Editor experience in Photos”, which is expected to roll out in Google Photos later this year.Īfter an amazing Keynote that provided an update about the new software features and hardware, let’s discuss the new updates to improve your apps and developer experiences. Some of the main announcements around AI for developers included the general availablity of “Bard” supporting 20 programming languages and use of the “PaLM 2” based models with some like “Gecko” small enough to run on mobile devices. Sundar Pichai started, mentioned numerous times and ended the Keynote by mentioning AI. This years I/O can be easily summed up by just one phrase: “AI”. We’ll leave details about announcements from the main keynote to lifestyle media and in this article, we’ll focus on the announcements for developers, such as the latest for Flutter, Firebase, Jetpack compose and other interesting things for all the Flutter and Android developers to check out! And it was huge! While some things, such as the latest version of Android came as no surprise, there were many interesting and less predictable highlights during the keynotes. ![]() Google I/O 2023, Google’s annual developer conference, has just wrapped up.
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