Dart News & Updates

The stable release of Dart 2 is now available, including a rewrite of the Dart web platform that offers a unique combination of productivity, performance, and scalability. See our  Medium post  for the full announcement. hnpwa.dartlang.org

And making your packages look great on the Pub site! We expect the Dart 2 release to graduate to stable in the immediate future. Thus, it’s critical that you migrate your code — especially any packages you have published — to be Dart 2 compatible now! To support this work we’ve made some enhancements to the Pub site to better show potential issues. See our Medium post for full details.

gRPC is a high performance, open source RPC framework. The gRPC framework supports a  wide range of languages , and we are happy to announce that support for the Dart language is now available in beta! Dart gRPC support works with the Dart SDK, version 1.24.3 or higher, and currently supports the  Flutter  and  VM/Server  platforms. See our  Medium post for full details.

Today, we’re announcing Dart 2, a reboot of the language to embrace our vision of Dart: as a language uniquely optimized for client-side development for web and mobile. See our  Medium post  for the full announcement.

Flutter Inspector We’re very excited to be able to announce the first version of the Flutter Inspector for IntelliJ and Android Studio! It will be featured in a talk at DartConf in LA (Wednesday, Jan. 24, 10am Pacific time) and will be live streamed on the DartConf website and on the Google Developers channel on Youtube. Be sure to watch it. The inspector makes it much easier to understand why your application is rendering the way it does. It allows you to:  View the UI structure of your app as a tree of widgets.  Select a point on your device or simulator and find the corresponding Widget that rendered those pixels.  View properties for individual widgets.  Generally, better understand layout issues.  The inspector view can be opened via View > Tool Windows > Flutter Inspector (it shows content only when an app is running). To inspect a specific widget, select the ‘Toggle inspect mode’ action in the toolbar, then click on the desired widget on the phon

The M20 release of the Flutter plugin is now available! Fixes and improvements include: improved the "Open with Xcode..." logic to work better for plugin projects improved flutter run console filtering improvements to unit test running support bug fixes to project creation in order to properly respect custom creation options (such as target language) and, bug fixes to issues encountered when deleting projects For existing users, Android Studio / IntelliJ should prompt you to update. If not, select 'Check for updates...' from the main menu. New users can install the plugin by selecting ‘Preferences’ > ‘Plugins’ and searching for ‘Flutter’ (or, see our install instructions ). Also available is the new package site, pub.dartlang.org , which now makes it easier to find Dart packages for use with Flutter.

Unless you're a member of the Dart misc group , you may be missing Florian Loitsch's weekly newsletters, which started in July. They live in the SDK repo ( docs/newsletter ), but Florian also posts them in the misc group. These newsletters cover the Dart language and some of the core libraries. Read them to learn about existing features ("Did you know"), planned changes, and how the Dart team considers and implements changes. For example: The July 28 newsletter (the first) starts with some 1.24 language changes that you might have missed: function types and changes to void . It also talks about the unified front end , and what that means for language changes. Finally, the letter lists features in active development, such as zones that work well with strong mode, void as a type , and changes to the core libraries . The September 29 newsletter covers 1.x JSON encoding , and plans for fixed-size integers . The October 13 newsletter covers 1.x double.toString