Flutter 3.44 and Dart 3.12 were announced at Google I/O, bringing major updates across the ecosystem. Key highlights include: Dart Cloud Functions for Firebase with AOT cold starts as low as 10ms, primary constructors and private field initializers in Dart, agentic hot reload for AI coding agents, a Dart/Flutter MCP server, and Genkit Dart for building full-stack AI apps. On the platform side, iOS moves to Swift Package Manager by default (deprecating CocoaPods), Android gains hybrid composition plus for better native view rendering, and web gets a WebAssembly render path overhaul with 25-40% performance gains. Flutter's material and Cupertino design libraries are being decoupled into standalone packages for faster iteration. Canonical becomes lead maintainer for Flutter Desktop. Toyota is shipping Flutter in the 2026 RAV4 infotainment system, and LG is launching a webOS SDK for Flutter. The community has grown to 1.5 million monthly active developers with 1.3 billion pub.dev package downloads in the last 30 days.
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