What’s New in Flutter 2.5

September 9, 2021 Article

In Short: The Flutter 2.5 release has the Performance improvements, DevTools updates, new Material You support, a new app template, and more!

Hello and welcome to Flutter 2.5! This is a big release, with the 2nd highest stats in the history of Flutter releases: 4600 issues closed and 3932 PRs merged from 252 contributors with 216 reviewers. If we look back over the last year, we see a huge 21,072 PRs created by 1337 contributors, of which 15,172 of them were merged. While the “what’s new in Flutter” blog posts focus on new features, our #1 job with Flutter is always making sure you have the features you need at the highest possible quality level.

List of features that were added in Flutter 2.5 released

1. Performance: iOS shader warmup, async tasks, GC & message passing

2. Dart 2.14: formatting, language features, pub & linting out-of-the-box

3. Framework: Android full screen, Material You & text editing shortcuts

4. Plugins: camera, image picker & plus plugins

5. Battery

6. Flutter DevTools: performance, Widget inspector, & polish

7. IntelliJ/Android Studio: integration tests, test coverage, and icon previews

8. Visual Studio Code: dependencies, Fix All, and Test Runner

9. Tools: exceptions, new app template & Pigeon 1.0

10. Breaking changes & deprecations

The following are the breaking changes in the Flutter 2.5 release:

Summary

In closing, thank you as always to the Flutter community around the world that makes all of this possible. To the hundreds of developers who have contributed and reviewed the 1000s of PRs in this update, here’s to the fruits of each of your efforts. Together, we’re working to transform the app development process for developers around the world so you can ship more, faster, deploying to the platforms you care about from a single codebase.

Stay tuned for more updates from all of us on the Flutter team at Google. The year is not over yet!