Everything You Need to Know About Flutter 2.2

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Everything You Need to Know About Flutter 2.2
Today one of the largest and the most used
platforms for cross-platform app development is
Flutter. Googles constant efforts to make the
Flutter framework better is making it more
useful. Every few months, Flutter is launching
new things to make their ecosystem stronger and
easier to use for developers. This has made it a
go-to solution for developers to develop
cross-platform applications using a
single-codebase. Today, it is the second most
used framework globally and has one of the
largest communities of developers.
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Its open-source nature, ease to learn and use
makes it everyone's favorite. After a break of a
year, Google came back this year with Google
I/O, its much-awaited annual developer
conference. This year it took some of the
signi?cant leaps in the various sectors like AI,
ML, Quantum Computing, Material Design, Flutter,
and plenty of others. Each of its products has
some signi?cant new features, which hopefully
make the future of technology brighter. Herein,
I will throw some light on Flutter and its major
updates, which make the Flutter ecosystem
stronger and provide a better developing
experience. Flutters major aim is to provide
ambient computing, which helps developers to
develop interactive, intuitive, and feature-rich
applications easily. This year their main aim was
to make the ecosystem more robust and more
secure than before. The ?utter team is very
active and constantly works on the feature
requirements from its developer circle. Listening
to developers requests, in Flutter 2.2, the
team has made major changes that help developers.
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New Updates in Flutter 2.2 Flutter and Material
YOU The Flutter team works closely with the
Material design team to bring more versatility
to the framework in terms of design. The new
design named Material YOU supports Flutter which
means, developers can develop their applications
using Material YOU which provides users more
personalization. In simple terms, Flutter
developers can get access to the new and old but
tweaked widgets for Material YOU. Once the new
design language releases its beta version, it
will be available to use in your Flutter
applications. Developers starting out with
Flutter App Development can easily develop using
Material Design and provide better experience to
the user. The open-source nature of both
platforms makes it easy to develop an
application. Integrating Payments For years,
developers were asking the Flutter team for
payment options, and ?nally, it is here. Flutter
now supports integration with multiple payment
modules like Google Pay, Apple Pay, and In-App
Purchases. Instead of following multiple
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steps to integrate payment modules, developers
can use a single-codebase to develop and
integrate it. Now, developers can also provide
in-app purchases to their customers and make the
payment process simpler. With the new update, the
Flutter team has made the in-app purchase
eco-system stronger by updating the
documentation, building code labs, and
re-architectured the plugin. Ads Monetizing an
application is one of the important parts.
Google Mobile Ads SDK was ?rst available in the
beta version, and developers loved it. In
version 2 Flutter team has brought some new
changes. Flutter has migrated the GMA SDK and
enabled null safety, which helps developers
handle exceptions easily and be productive while
developing applications. It also supports the
latest iOS GMA SDK, which adds App Tracking
Transparency in the applications. This makes it
easy for developers to develop iOS applications
by abiding by all laws of the iOS platform
easily. Last and the biggest new feature is
Adaptive Banner, which is a new way of
responsive ads. This will help developers
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to maximize their app performance by making it
responsive. So, now regardless of the device,
you are building your application for, you can
use Adaptive Banner using a single-codebase. Flu
tter Flow For years now, developers have been
requesting a Flutter layout to develop
applications fast and easily, directly in the
browser. Flutter Flow allows developers to start
with Flutter app development and build
applications faster, easier, and with less code.
This makes development fun for developers, and
anyone and everyone can learn it easily. You can
easily develop different UIs for your
application. Flutter Flow uses Firebase
authentication and Firebase database to store
your information securely. Now, you can easily
develop applications in less time and provide a
better user experience. Flutter UWP (Universal
Windows Platform) Flutter has now extended its
support to Windows UWP, which helps developers
easily start with the Windows platforms Flutter
app development.
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Yes! You read it right. You can now develop
applications for multiple Windows platforms like
Windows 10, Xbox, and HoloLens. Instead of
developing for multiple Windows platforms, using
UWP, you need to write code only once. This is
still an early Alpha version of Flutter UWP. To
use it, set up UWP prerequisites, and go to the
dev channel on Github to enable it. Still, the
Flutter team has to update and bring many new
features in the UWP, making it more stable and
interesting to build applications. Lets wait for
future updates on Flutter UWP. Null
Safety Null Safety is an essential part of the
development to handle any kind of exceptions. It
helps in increasing productivity by helping
developers build applications faster and handle
exceptions. Dart is a typeface programming
language which means depending on the variable
declared, it can know which data type it is.
But, it could not develop null data variables due
to which many exceptions were occurring and
reported on the Github repository. Further, to
solve these exceptions, there were thousands of
commits to ?x this issue. As a result, it was
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• hindering developers productivity and not
  helping them have a stronger ecosystem.
• To avoid these issues and build a stronger
  ecosystem, Flutter made Null Safety default.
  This means now developers dont need to worry
  about handling exceptions and developing
  ef?ciently. Null safety works on three core
  principles
• Non-nullable by default Unless you tell that the
  variable is null, it will be considered
  non-nullable.
• Incrementally adaptable You can have null safe
  and non-null safe products in the same project.
• Fully sound Darts null safety is fully sound,
  meaning you can depend on it and rely on its
  type system. Once you migrate your full project,
  you will ?nd smaller bugs and faster execution.
• These principles help make Dart and Flutter a
  stronger ecosystem.

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Miscellaneous Updates Apart from the major
updates, making the
updates, there are certain minor
framework fun and easy to learn.

• Following are some of the miscellaneous updates
• New Material Icon
• With the new updates, there are more than 7000
  icons for your application. You can ef?ciently
  search for any of them using the search bar, and
  from now onwards, there are also Dash icons
  available for your application. You can download
  icons from here.
• Automatic Scrolling Behavior
• Mobile phones don't need scrollbars, be it iOS or
  Android, but on a desktop, it needs scrollbars.
  Hence, many time developers need to call the
  in-built scrollbar widgets. But, with the new
  release, you can go without scrollbars. With this
  release, the application automatically takes the
  scroll bar, depending on your applications
  content. If you are not happy with the

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• default scrollbar, you can change the theme
  according to your desire.
• Mouse Cursors
• With the new version, you can make rich text
  applications that can help you to make the
  cursor more interactive. If you are using
  TextSpan with gesture recognizer you will
  automatically get the corresponding cursor.
• These updates may look pretty small but have a
  huge impact. Such small updates collectively
  help in making intuitive and interactive
  applications and provide a better user
  experience.
• Conclusion
• With every new release of Flutter, the ecosystem
  is becoming stronger than before. With Flutter
  version 2, we can see some major changes coming
  for the developer circle, which will have a
  major impact on the future of app development.
• Moreover, the recent collaboration between Google
  and Samsung for building smartwatches can also
  open the gateways for building smartwatch
  applications using Flutter.

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This shows that the roadmap of Flutter is
stronger, and with time we can expect the
framework to mature. During the days when the
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