Flutter Desktop Embedding

This sort of thing predates GitHub. Microsoft had the PowerToys for Windows -- it was a Microsoft software product for Windows, but it didn't undergo the same level of vetting as something that was part of Windows, and if you broke something using it, you were on your own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerToys

It's not crazy for someone at Google to want to use Flutter on the desktop, to build something to scratch their own itch, and to release it while not wanting to commit to the same level of support that Google gives to mainline Flutter.

Agreed, but google/ on GitHub just contains code that happens to be owned by Google, due to the authors being employees.

I'd wager you'll find the same statement on 90% of the repos under /google/

Employees agree that Google will own their creative output, even off the clock. Those personal project repos are almost always managed by a Google-owned GitHub organisation.

Per https://opensource.google.com/docs/releasing/publishing/#dis...:

> Unless your project is an official Google product, you must state “This is not an officially supported Google product” in an appropriate location such as the project’s README file.

> We do this to help set appropriate expectations for users of these projects. Projects that include this label may not be staffed like larger, supported products such as Android, Chromium, or Go are. Support and/or new releases may be limited.

The idea is that projects developed by Googlers and owned by Google will be released under this GitHub org, to indicate Google's giving back to the open-source community, but that it isn't subject to any of Google's terms or support per se.

Google is moving away from Android, the replacement has Dart built-in.

The reply from a Google employee when asked this question was to look at the Google AdWords team - they have invested heavily in Flutter for their Google Ads app on iOS and Android. He basically said Flutter will be supported for 10+ years as a minimum.

I've worked quite a bit with Dart on my time the past year and it was great. Being a JS/TS developper I found my mark pretty quickly. However as it's not _that_ popular and the online resources (be it SO questions or articles) are a bit scarce and the most recent one are usually centered around Flutter and not just Dart. I'll keep playing with it and if the possibility would occur I'd happily work full time with Dart.

Not going to happen, considering Google's commitment to supporting Kotlin for Android development over the past couple of years.

If they support desktop correctly (including accessibility, Left to right languages etc) I honestly believe this technology could be a game changer for cross platform development.

... This is a good idea. I might do the same to try out flutter.

Can you share more about this?

Could you point me to some tools/hardware/solutions you used for home automation? I'm about to start such project for my new flat and I'm looking for information/inspiration.

They used this to create presentation app during last Flutter Live, so it seems strange that it's still "exploratory effort".

I think desktop support will always be there in some form or another because I believe to port flutter to some particular platform wouldn't be a massive amount of work. Reason is that Flutter is written to address a graphics layer such as OpenGL or equivalent. The iOS/Android apps it generates are just a single view with graphics and touch input, similar to a Unity game for example.

Just tried the some of the apps and while it seems pretty promising, they are really mobile apps running on the desktop, in fact, it even says that on the website :). For example, the picker is a carousel wheel and not a native looking control. I understand that is still Alpha but do you plan to make it feel more like a desktop application?

It is based on Skia which is also part of Chromium.