Mobile cross-platform development has reached a new dimension with the introduction of Flutter. Since the team at Google released Flutter 1.0 in last December, the buzz has been never-ending. And as we talked and debated about the recent entrant, Flutter 1.2 is out!

Flutter 1.2 is the first feature update for Google Flutter. It was released on February 26 at the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona. So, let’s see what’s new this time!

Flutter First Stable Update Release

Dart 2.2

The use of Dart has proven to be a major game changer for Flutter. The performance enhancements offered by Dart for Flutter apps is huge. Keeping this in mind, the new Flutter release includes Dart 2.2 SDK for faster performance.

In Dart 2.2, they have specifically focussed on improving the performance of the Ahead Of Time (AOT) code. Developers can see an improvement in performance by 11-16% on microbenchmarks. With Dart 2 Common Front-End (CFE), it has become easy to build new language features. An example is the introduction of a Set literal language feature. Developers can now write Set literals using { }.

Material & Cupertino Widget Sets

Flutter promises pixel-perfect designs on iOS and Android. To fortify their promise on providing native apps, Flutter has brought significant improvements in its Material and Cupertino widget sets to fool-proof the UI side…

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You can read the full article here: Flutter 1.2: What’s new in this release?