- On, Tuesday, Google launched Flutter 1.0, a new open-source toolkit for developers to design mobile apps.
- The idea is that app developers can write an app once, and deploy it on both Apple iOS and Android.
- Flutter is similar conceptually to Microsoft's Xamarin, a $400 million acquisition in 2016 that helped Microsoft rope developers in to its Microsoft Azure cloud. Flutter could, perhaps, do the same for Google and Google Cloud.
- Google is touting Flutter as having some unique features over the competition, such as stateful hot reload, which lets developers make changes to apps and see them reflected in real time, as well as third party integrations with companies like Square.
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Google is taking on one of Microsoft’s smartest acquisitions with a new tool for app developers (GOOG, GOOGL, MSFT)
Google is launching a new UI toolkit for developing apps, Flutter. It's similar to Microsoft's Xamarin, but with many unique features of its own.
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