Today we’re excited to share our vision for Flutter at Flutter Forward, our developer event streaming live from Nairobi, Kenya, as developers from around the world gather in-person and online to learn about future directions for Flutter.
Flutter is a UI toolkit that enables app developers to build for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Flutter enables you to build beautiful apps, giving you complete control over every pixel on the screen. It’s fast, taking advantage of your phone or computer’s hardware with support for hardware-accelerated graphics and natively-compiled machine code. It’s productive, with technologies like stateful hot reload that allow you to immediately see code changes in your app. Its portability enables you to deploy to a wide variety of platforms with the same source code and without surprises. And it’s fully open source, with no cost to license it or need to pay for tools to develop for it.
Flutter has proven popular, with over 700,000 published apps to date: from small startups with big ideas to enterprises with critical needs. At Google, too, we’re finding Flutter a valuable tool, enabling teams like Google Classroom to deliver high-quality solutions to mobile and web users; we’re also adding support for it in our other developer tools including Google Ads, Google Maps, Google Pay, and of course Firebase.