Google releases toolkit for creating iOS and Android apps with single codebase

Google has released version 1.0 of Flutter, a toolkit for building apps for Android and iOS from a single codebase. The Flutter beta came online earlier this year. One of the new features is the function to further develop an existing app with the toolkit.

Flutter works with the Dart platform for 32-bit and 64-bit ARM code and uses Skia 2D Graphics to display the interface, writes Google. With Flutter, the development of apps for iOS and Android should accelerate, including the ability to see changes in real-time in apps for both platforms without having to reload.

Google lets Flutter work with the standard programming languages ​​for Android and iOS, Kotlin, Java, Swift and Objective-C. Google has already used its own toolkit to create the Ads app and claims that some major companies, including Philips Hue and Alibaba, develop and release apps made with Flutter.

The open source application should also come to desktops in the near future, working with Windows, macOS and Linux. This is done by converting ARM code into Javascript, via a tool that Google has called Hummingbird. The beta of the toolkit came online in February. Flutter 1.0 is available as a download for Windows, Linux, and macOS.