2.8.0

Flutter 2.8 delivers significant performance improvements including 50% startup latency reduction on low-end Android devices and optimized web platform views. The release stabilizes FlutterFire plugins and introduces Firebase UI with pre-built authentication and data management components. Desktop support advances with IME improvements and keyboard event re-architecture, while WebView 3.0 adds web platform support and highly requested features like POST requests and HTML string loading.

Highlights

• 50% startup latency reduction on low-end Android devices through Dart VM garbage collection optimization
• WebView 3.0 with hybrid composition default, POST support, HTML string loading, and web platform preview
• FlutterFire plugins graduate to stable production quality across Analytics, Database, Remote Config, and more
• Firebase UI library provides pre-built authentication flows and Firestore data widgets for all platforms
• DevTools adds enhanced tracing for UI jank diagnosis and app startup profiling capabilities
• Web platform view canvas reuse eliminates performance degradation with multiple HtmlElementView instances
• Firestore Object/Document Mapper alpha release enables type-safe, code-generated data modeling