'A lot of what we're trying to offer in the Casual Games Toolkit is supplementary to Flame,' he said, pointing to tasks like integrating with Apple's Game Center or Google Play games services. Sneath said Flame is aimed at a more demanding sort of game than the Casual Games Toolkit. Google's Flutter team has not previously tried to meet the needs of game developers, though some efforts along those lines have been made by third parties, most notably via the Flame game engine, which reached its 1.0 milestone last December. 'We have over 23,000 packages now in the Flutter ecosystem and that's growing quickly, both in number and the quality of those packages.'Īrguably the most significant aspect of the 3.0 release is Google's decision to support casual game development via its Casual Games Toolkit, a selection of templates and best practices, plus credits for ads and cloud services. 'Companies like Microsoft and Amazon are writing plugins, and communities are starting to band together and pool their resources around common packages that others use or want to see,' he said. '23,000 packages' in the Flutter ecosystemĪsked about the relatively small number of packages available to Flutter developers, Sneath said the Flutter community has been stepping up to fill the gap, individually and at a corporate level. What's more, Firebase's real-time crash reporting service, Crashlytics, has better Flutter support through the Flutter Crashlytics plugin. This should reduce breaking changes and inconsistencies. Google has coupled Flutter more tightly to its Firebase cloud database service, so Firebase support for Flutter will move in parallel with support for Android and iOS. The Dart language update also includes experimental RISC-V support, a better linter, and improved documentation. One such addition – super parameters, a succinct way to specify that a parameter belongs to a superclass – saved 2,000 lines of code when merged.

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