Flutter 3 was announced and released at Google I/O 2022. Here are some notable updates, along with my opinions.
The mission
I was happy to hear my friend Tim Sneath update his definition for Flutter.
“Flutter is an open source toolkit, supported by Google, for building beautiful, fast, user experiences for any platform.” — Tim Sneath (What’s new in Flutter)
Let us never forget that Flutter is a toolkit, not a framework, and builds user interfaces, not apps! Thanks for the update, Tim!
Games with Flutter
Flutter launched a casual gaming framework. Along the same lines, Very Good Ventures partnered with the Flutter organization to release Flutter Pinball. I’ve often said that Flutter is the spiritual successor to Flash, and if Flutter Pinball doesn’t remind you of early 2000 Flash games, I don’t know what will!
Flutter Pinball looks great. Community creations with the Flame game engine look promising. I always support creative expansions for Flutter, wherever they might go. That’s why I built Flutter Processing.
But Flutter’s casual gaming framework has me a bit worried. On the one hand, the casual gaming framework might be aimed at driving Flutter-based revenue to Google, which is…
