Google I/O is the annual developer conference where Google announces new hardware, software, and various updates for its existing apps and services.

10th Google I/O

Flutter was first public release as an early alpha at Google I/O 2017. Google, observed the problems of mobile app developers to compromise between quality and productivity while building the native version of the same app for iOS and Android. For details, you can read my other posts.

Ahead of its Google I/O 2018, Google has launched the third beta release of Flutter, its open source mobile UI framework that helps developers build native interfaces for Android and iOS. The Flutter SDK has also gained official support from the Material Design team. I think this beta is an important step towards the 1.0 build for Flutter. Let’s see the Flutter Beta 3 features;

Material Design Widgets

Flutter is a first-class toolkit for Material, which means the Material and Flutter teams have partnered to deliver even more support for Material Design.

Added a BottomBarApp Widget

This allows to manipulating a bar at the bottom of the screen. Also, we are able to take the floating action button position on top of the app bar and it looks like semi-circle cut inside of the app bar.

Support for Chips has been expanded

Chips are compact elements that represent an input, attribute, or action.

InputDecorator now supports filled/underlined and outlined modes

InputDecorator displays the visual elements of a Material Design text field around its input child. Briefly, that allows us to put lines that cover the entire box.

FloatingActionButton now offers greater positioning flexibility

Slider has new features for colors and shapes.

Material Design Components