Developer tools and frameworks at Apple. I aspire to build delightful products, and to make others smile.
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Microsoft has created so many UI frameworks: Blazor, Razor, .NET MAUI / Xamarin Native / Xamarin Forms, WinUI3, UWP, Win32, WinForms, WPF, even a React Native desktop thing. That they didn't pick _any_ of these for Teams 2.0 is really quite impressive.
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Been there. The only comfort I can offer is a counter-intuitive truth: that sometimes the harshest words are said in the safest environments, because they know that acceptance and love is unconditional and they can let off steam in ways that would destroy any other relationship.
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OK, Flutter on Apple Silicon turns out to be pretty impressive. This is an app for iOS, Android, iOS/Catalyst, macOS, web and Windows, all running on the same machine, as well as Android Studio, Xcode, VSCode. Same codebase. Fanless. Fast. Wow. #Flutter #applesilicon #developer
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A new season! This month I’ve started a new role at Apple, leading developer tools and frameworks marketing. It has been exciting to see the world through a new lens.
ALT Tim at Apple Park
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It's time to upgrade my Mac. The SE/30 on the left has served me very well over the years, but the small monochrome screen is starting to limit my productivity. And the new ones come with a DVD player, a new PowerPC G4 and a built-in Ethernet and modem!
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OK, time for an unboxing thread with a difference. I needed to test some web apps written in #Flutter on a really low-powered device. TIL that you can buy a Lenovo Chromebook for LESS THAN $100? 🤯
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Announcing Flutter 2.8 and Dart 2.15. Live today. Flutter bits are still publishing, but in the meantime, grab a coffee and read about our progress: medium.com/flutter/announcin… #Flutter #Dart #FlutterGoodNewsWednesday
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We've just completed a full refresh of our introductory SwiftUI tutorials, which provide a fantastic four hour detailed walkthrough of building an app for Apple. You'll be productive with SwiftUI when you're done. Check it out here: developer.apple.com/tutorial… #SwiftUI
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Today we’re announcing a new set of tutorials for students taking their first steps into coding with Swift and SwiftUI! You don’t need prior coding experience to use these tutorials, so they’re a great foundational step: developer.apple.com/tutorial… #Swift #LearnToCode
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I hope folk know that I'll _always_ be a big fan of Flutter. But here is an example of the kind of screen that SwiftUI makes really easy. A fun Friday challenge: try and recreate this in #Flutter :)
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Flutter 3.7 is a mega release, with so many useful features. We decided to release it the night before Flutter Forward so we could focus on the 'Forward' bit today. It's going to be a fun day! medium.com/flutter/whats-new… #Flutter #FlutterForward
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We have an early version running. Still experiencing a few glitches on Windows 95, but it's working really well on Windows NT 4... #Flutter #RunsEverywhere
Wait, did #Flutter just release support for Windows 95??? 🤯🤯🤯
Get the latest deets on @TechScrunchdev 🔥
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We’re delighted to announce Flutter Forward, our next major Flutter event, streaming live to the world from Nairobi, Kenya on January 25th, 2023. #Flutter #FlutterForward 🐦💙🇰🇪 1/
ALT Dash, the Flutter mascot, staring at a large neon Flutter logo
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Announcing Flutter on Windows. We are delighted to finally deliver a preview-quality build of Windows support. It’s all coming together well!
link.medium.com/RscXZF8809
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It's a tough week to be working on #Flutter, so I want to pay homage to some of the amazing engineers, product managers, UX researchers, and developer advocates who work on it. 🧵
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Thrilled and honored to be able to introduce Flutter 3 to the world at #GoogleIO. Thanks for all your support to get us this far! medium.com/flutter/introduci… #Flutter
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Congrats to @BMW on their My BMW app, fully developed in-house using #Flutter. "BMW's Flutter/Dart development team is one of the world’s largest after Google’s, bringing together 300 employees." 🤯press.bmwgroup.com/global/ar… @GooglePlayDev
ALT A screenshot of BMW's My BMW app, built with Flutter by an in-house development team.
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There are around half a million apps now using Flutter. THANK YOU ALL! #FlutterUpdate #Flutter
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When you see a cool effect and think, “I wonder if Flutter can do that?” And then realize that it WAS done in Flutter! 😍😍😍 #Flutter #DesignInspiration
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Chrome talking about #WebAssembly with #Flutter and #Dart. WebAssembly brings the performance of native code to the web, and we're taking full advantage of it to make Flutter 3x faster in the browser. #GoogleIO
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👎 Bad news, Flutter friends -- we're not perfect and you reported a couple of annoying bugs to us in the 2.5 stable release.
👍 Good news, Flutter friends -- we fixed them already with a 2.5.1 update. Download it now! github.com/flutter/flutter/w… #Flutter #SquashTheBugs
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It's been a rather enormous amount of work, but today we published a detailed Flutter architectural overview: flutter.dev/docs/resources/a… #DocsFTW #Flutter #SoftwareArchitecture
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Angular 🤝 Flutter: you can now run Flutter web running inside an Angular app. "It's like a big framework hug" 🫂 Check it out here: dit-ng-flutter.web.app/#/ #Angular #Flutter #GoogleIO
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Introducing Flutter Animate, a new library from @gskinner that makes adding animated effects to your app a snap: pub.dev/packages/flutter_ani…. More about it here: blog.gskinner.com/archives/2… #Flutter #uidesign #animation #mobileapps
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Congratulations to the Google One team, who just shipped a new VPN desktop app with Flutter. Great to see #Flutter help teams build for both #macOS and #Windows from a single codebase! theverge.com/2022/11/9/23448… #GoogleOne #VPN @verge
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It’s sad when a toxic manager causes the leadership of a great team to leave. Don’t be that person. #Flutter
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Flutter now fully supports Windows app support, with packages like camera and file system pickers, support for keyboard/mouse, accessibility, input method editors, and much more! #FlutterUpdate #Flutter @windowsdev
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ALT Sissie Hsiao on stage at Google I/O, talking about the programming languages Google Bard can support: ASP.NET, C, C++, C#, Dart, Go, Groovy, HTML/CSS, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Google Sheets, Matlab, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, SQL, Swift and more...
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You are the true stars ⭐⭐⭐! Thank you to all 104,731 of you who have propelled #Flutter to be one of the most loved open source projects on @github. The sky _is_ the limit, as Flutter continues to grow in monthly users, apps, packages. Thank you! /via @tadaspetra #OSS
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Flutter is being used throughout Google: for mobile, web and desktop. Here's a great new Flutter app that shows how we're helping connect Android and Windows: theverge.com/2023/4/3/236677… #Flutter #NearbyShare #Android #Windows
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Beautiful! You have some talent. This is a perfect example of the kind of modern experience we want to enable with #Flutter on the desktop.
We should chat...
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Delighted to see Flutter finally become part of the default install for Ubuntu: theregister.com/2023/04/04/u… #Flutter #Ubuntu #OSSTogether
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SwiftUI makes hard things easy. Check out this fun picker demo: you can switch between a menu, a navigation link, a segmented control, or more with just a change to a property. Clean, straightforward, beautiful. #SwiftUI
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The energy and exuberance that comes from running an event in Africa is like nothing else I've ever experienced. A little teary-eyed this evening. Asante sana, Nairobi! #FlutterForward #pamoja #Flutter
ALT A crowd of Flutter friends gather around Dash after the Flutter Forward keynote.
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Ordered a physical copy just to have it handy. I didn’t realize quite how thick it is at nearly 700 pages! If you’re just joining us with Flutter 3, this is still a great way to learn #Flutter! @rwenderlich #mobileapps
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Xcode developers, rejoice! Claude account support is now enabled, adding to the existing support for ChatGPT (now including GPT-5). This changes how I write code, liberating me to focus on the fun parts! Check it out in Xcode 26 beta 7.
New in Xcode 26 Beta 7: Users can now log into their Claude account from Xcode.
Generate code and documentation, automatically fix errors, and create inline playgrounds using coding intelligence features in Xcode, powered by Claude Sonnet 4.
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🥳Announced today: whether you use SwiftUI or another UI framework to build your apps for Apple, you now get 25 compute hours / month of CI/CD services with Xcode Cloud. Free. No expiry. Available to every Apple Developer Program member. 🎉developer.apple.com/news/?id… #Xcode
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Some of you were asking about a high-res version of the Dash laptop image for wallpaper. Here you are! (Google Drive link contains the uncompressed PNG.)
See you on Feb 3rd, Windows developers! #Flutter #Dash #Windows #FlutterUpdate
drive.google.com/file/d/1dyI…
ALT Dash, the Flutter mascot, is sitting behind a laptop with a Flutter logo. We can't see it, but the laptop is running Windows...
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I might be a little biased... but I think #Flutter is the future!
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It's a happy day! Flutter 2.5 is here! medium.com/flutter/whats-new…
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#Performance #MaterialYou #DevTools
#UpgradeNow
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If you've ordered a new Mac, you'll be pleased to know that today's #Flutter release (1.22.4) is ready for you. We've been working with pre-release hardware to enable targeting iOS from an Apple Silicon dev machine. groups.google.com/g/flutter-… #AppleSilicon #AppleEvent #BigSur
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Excited about the new swift.org homepage, which includes a revamped getting started content. This was truly a community effort -- thanks to @alexandberg, @kaishin, @twostraws and others for helping make Swift great! github.com/apple/swift-org-w… #Swift
ALT A screenshot of the Swift homepage. Swift is a general-purpose programming language that's approachable for newcomers and powerful for experts. It is fast, modern, safe, and a joy to write.
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Introducing Flutter 2.2: a thread of news and announcements ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #Flutter
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Announcing Dart 2.14, with Apple Silicon support, new lints to help improve your code quality, performance and package improvements. medium.com/dartlang/announci…
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Making progress on Flutter desktop support: here’s all the latest about #Flutter on #Windows, #macOS, #Linux: link.medium.com/Gr2eQFnuo7
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You might not be able to go to the movies right now, but we have a blockbuster release for you anyway. Announcing Flutter 1.20! @csells has the news of our biggest release yet: medium.com/flutter/announcin… #Flutter
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The Flutter cookbook is one of the best hidden secrets for aspiring Flutter developers: lots of great recipes for common tasks: from calling a JSON web API to video playback. We need more recipes though. Any interest in contributing? flutter.dev/docs/cookbook #Flutter
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Finally ready to share a project that I've been working on in evenings and weekends over the last few months. Hopefully you find this a fun read! medium.com/@timsneath/window… #Dart #Flutter #Win32 @windowsdev
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Aside from Flutter 3.3, we have some other exciting news to share: a new reference app and a new rendering engine (plus a fond farewell): medium.com/flutter/announcin… #FlutterVikings #Flutter #Wonderous
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A bunch of useful fixes in Flutter 3.7.1, because our product is built by humans, and artisanally-crafted software has a natural grain. github.com/flutter/flutter/w…
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Introducing a completely redesigned package site, with new scoring and visuals for your #Dart and #Flutter packages. medium.com/dartlang/pub-dev-…
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Sending warm wishes to you this Christmas Day from the Sneath family. Today is a day of hope to Christians, as we reflect on love came down and light to a troubled world. May you also find peace and joy this Christmas. 🎄
ALT The Sneath family wearing matching pajamas and matching smiles!
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Sharing our Flutter 2023 strategy doc, which provides a guide to the investments we're planning to make over the remainder of the year. medium.com/flutter/flutter-i… #Flutter
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As a prelude to Google I/O, we have quite the treat for you while you wait for all tomorrow's news. Here's I/O Pinball, built with Flutter's web support: pinball.flutter.dev/#/ What fun! #GoogleIO @googledevs
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We are just getting started with Flutter! Today at #FlutterForward we are previewing our future investments: 3D support, WebAssembly, web integration, Dart 3 alpha, pixel shaders on web, Google News Toolkit and more! medium.com/flutter/whats-nex… #Flutter
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Woohoo! 🎉 FINALLY, a great solution for deploying Flutter desktop apps. Conveyor is anesthetic for the pain of packaging apps for macOS, Linux and Windows. Look at what it does for you: hydraulic.software/blog/10-f… @HydraulicCorp #Flutter @windowsdev @Canonical 🍎🪟🐧⚡️🧑💻
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Good news for Flutter developers: we're consolidating our Dart web framework efforts on Flutter web support. More here: medium.com/dartlang/angulard… #Dart #Flutter
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This is a really impressive eight-part tutorial to mastering the Flutter DevTools. @ashitaprasad has put a _serious_ amount of work into this, with labs that walk through each part of the suite. Add this to your reading list today!
medium.com/@fluttergems/mast… #Flutter #DevTools
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Ubuntu continues to do exciting new things with Flutter. In the 22.10 blog post, the team shares the work going on to unify their installers with Flutter, and to rewrite the Ubuntu Software app: ubuntu.com/blog/whats-new-in… #Flutter @ubuntu #Oss
ALT A screenshot of the Ubuntu Software app, currently being rewritten in Flutter.
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Announcing Flutter 1.22, which includes new support for iOS 14 and Android 11, Android state restoration, and the completion of our work on webviews and Google Maps support. So much here, it's hard to believe this is only two months' work. medium.com/flutter/announcin… #Flutter
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Today we're sharing out our 2022 strategy for Flutter. We hope this will help others make plans for shared investment in Flutter, knowing what we (the Google contributors) are investing in (and why). medium.com/flutter/flutter-i… #Flutter #strategy
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#Flutter friends, it's time to learn SwiftUI: even if just to help your app integrate more fully with iOS, so you can take advantage of features like Apple Intelligence, Live Activities, widgets and controls. The @VGVentures team can help you get started: verygood.ventures/blog/why-l…
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Flutter 3.3 is a refinement of all the work we did in Flutter 3, improving performance, polishing Material 3 and adding highly requested features like the SelectableArea widget and trackpad gestures. We're rolling it out right now! medium.com/flutter/whats-new… #Flutter #fluttervikings
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Great to see @googledevs supporting #Swift for their new AI SDK. It’s a great language for AI research and development. github.com/google/generative…
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Impressive to see AWS Amplify build a 100% Dart stack for their libraries: letting them offer great support for CLI, mobile, desktop and web from a single codebase: aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/… @dart_lang #StoneSoup
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Nearly done! Can’t wait to use #Flutter to install Linux, thanks to @canonical and @ubuntu! 9to5linux.com/first-look-at-…
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Flutter 3.3. We've taken everything you love and added some stunning new features. Available on iOS and macOS. We think you're going to love it. #TimApple
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A short testimony to the power of persistence. I’ve been working on an automated code generator to project the entire Win32 API to Flutter/Dart. This is about five months’ work, as I’ve painstakingly whittled down the bug list. Don’t give up, just because something is hard.
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We have a metric ton of announcements and updates about Flutter's web support this morning. Get the scoop from @marihasnany: medium.com/flutter/flutter-w… #FlutterGoodNewsWednesday #Flutter #FlutterWeb #webdevelopment
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If my kids are staying home and there are no formal school lessons planned, they might as well learn something useful! #Flutter @yu_angela @udemy #COVID19 #schoolclosure
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Delighted to announce that the Google Fonts support we announced at Flutter Interact has now reached 1.0. Add any font to your app with just a line of code. medium.com/flutter/introduci… #Flutter #MaterialDesign #GoogleFonts #typography
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It always surprises me how developers underappreciate the technical accomplishment of a programming language that is equally able to compile to optimized machine code and optimized minified JS. Very few languages have delivered this at production scale. #Dart
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As a team, we choose a week every year to focus on “sharpening the saw”: learning a new skill or improving an existing one. This year, I’m diving into the @golang programming language with excitement. Wish me luck! #newgopher @cameronbalahan
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Here we are -- the schedule is live! This is the biggest Flutter event we've done for a long time, and we're so excited to have you join us as we reveal news and demo what's new for Flutter. Come join us! events.flutter.dev/ #Flutter #FlutterEngage
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Calling Flutter developers: @satyanadella wants you to publish your apps to the Microsoft Store! #Windows #MSBuild #Flutter developer.microsoft.com/en-u…
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OK, so Flutter's support for web _just_ entered beta, so don't start trying to do deep dives on performance or size :) But we have just uploaded our Flutter Gallery to the web: flutter.github.io/samples/#/ and it's _exactly_ the same code as the iOS and Android versions. #Flutter
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Giant news! Todd led the Flutter engineering team and was my partner there for years, and it's delightful to be working with him again here at Apple. He's going to be a fantastic addition to an already great SwiftUI team.
ALT Tim and Todd at Apple Park, with giant cheesy smiles!
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve joined Apple as Director of Engineering, working on SwiftUI!
linkedin.com/posts/tvolkert_…
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Interesting to look at UI framework trends on @StackOverflow. Our growth is largely thanks to amazing #Flutter experts who answer questions, including @remi_rousselet, @gzoechi, @diegoveloper, @a14n, @peterhdd and so many others. Thank you so much! stackoverflow.com/tags/flutt…
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If you're a Windows developer, you'll want to join the Flutter team on February 3rd. We're excited to see you! #Windows @windowsdev #Flutter #NewAndShiny
🥳 Our latest Flutter Update is here!
👀 This time with BIG news for Windows developers...
Join us Feb 3 at 10:00AM PT 💙
Get ready 👉 goo.gle/FlutterUpdateWindows
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Already we have some amazing examples of how beautiful Windows apps look when they use Flutter. Check out Harmonoid, a music player being developed in the open using Flutter and Fluent: github.com/harmonoid/harmono… #Flutter @windowsdev
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We have a new Flutter release! Every marketing guru says to launch at 9am, so we're launching at 4pm. Delighted to introduce Flutter 1.7 to you all: medium.com/flutter/announcin… #Flutter #Dart #MobileDevelopment #Goodness
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