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Google is working on it:

https://github.com/domokit/sky_engine and https://github.com/dart-lang/fletch

This looks like more of a side project than something Google is going to put its weight behind. I am pretty excited for Fletch though - I hope it turns into something like React Native, which would be much improved using Dart and Dart tools instead of JavaScript IMO.

Right now Fletch looks pretty awkward/painful to use though. Writing views completely natively (ObjC/Swift/Java) and then calling into a DartVM for business logic doesn't sound like a fun way to develop to me. I could be wrong, I haven't tried to use Fletch - just read some examples, but right now I don't see the benefit.

Sky is basically Cordova as far as I can tell. It dumps native looking views into a webview and calls it a day. The demo app on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.domokit.sk...) does not make me terribly excited for it :(

Sky is in early stages, but I think it has good potential and in active development. I think they made the app on Google play quite some time ago during dart summit as a demo, so maybe examples in the repository is a better place to look.

Also, looks like they will name it as Flutter: https://flutter.github.io/getting-started/

I'd be really curious to hear what makes Dart tools awesome. I haven't played with Dart, but JS has some of the best tooling I've used. Have you tried webpack and hotloading? Have you tried npm (with webpack to generate client-side bundles) as your dependency manager?

Is sky engine a Google project?

It is an open source project, but check the contributors, you will see Adam Barth, Ian Hickson, Eric Seidel and other Chrome engineers.

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