--- title: Everything You Need to Know About Patrol in 2026 | daily.dev description: Patrol is an open-source E2E UI testing framework for Flutter that bridges Flutter widgets and native UI elements (system dialogs, permissions, notifications)... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/everything-you-need-to-know-about-patrol-in-2026-ekznfqt3s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Everything You Need to Know About Patrol in 2026 | daily.dev og:description: Patrol is an open-source E2E UI testing framework for Flutter that bridges Flutter widgets and native UI elements (system dialogs, permissions, notifications)... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/everything-you-need-to-know-about-patrol-in-2026-ekznfqt3s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ekZnFQt3S.png og:image:alt: Everything You Need to Know About Patrol in 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Everything You Need to Know About Patrol in 2026 **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Patrol is an open-source E2E UI testing framework for Flutter that bridges Flutter widgets and native UI elements (system dialogs, permissions, notifications) using JUnit and XCTest under the hood. Patrol 4.0 adds full Flutter Web support, a VS Code extension for in-IDE test management, Patrol MCP for AI-assisted test writing and healing via Claude/Cursor/Copilot, and compatibility with cloud device farms like Firebase Test Lab, BrowserStack, AWS Device Farm, and others. Key features include the patrol_finders package with jQuery-style syntax, test bundling to reduce CI build times, and test sharding for parallel execution across real devices. The framework has 350K+ monthly downloads and is listed in official Flutter documentation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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