Flutter Spring 2020 Update
Article Summary
Tim Sneath from Google's Flutter team shares a milestone: 2 million developers adopted Flutter in just 16 months. Even more impressive? The framework saw 10% month-over-month growth during the pandemic's early days.
This Spring 2020 update reveals Flutter's explosive enterprise adoption and introduces major changes to the release process. Google shares detailed usage statistics, highlights Nubank's migration story, and announces a new branching model designed to improve stability and predictability for production apps.
Key Takeaways
- 50,000 Flutter apps now live in Play Store, 10,000 added last month alone
- Nubank unified frontend teams on Flutter after detailed framework analysis
- New branching model adds beta channel with stabilization period before stable releases
- 78% of developers use stable channel, 60% develop on Windows machines
- Provider, RxDart, and cached_network_image top the third party package charts
Critical Insight
Flutter reached 2 million developers with 500K monthly active users while overhauling its release process to support enterprise scale and predictability.
