Google has announced version 1.20 of Flutter, its system for creating – in native ARM code – embedded graphic components for both iOS and Android from a single codebase.

Flutter 1.20 updates for autofill, pan and zoom

As well as promised performance improvements, the release includes some UI enhancements. For example, support for autofill, a new way to layer widgets to support pan and zoom, new mouse cursor support and updates to Material widgets (such as the time and date pickers).

There’s also a new responsive license page for the About box in desktop and mobile form-factor apps.

For productivity, there are updates to the system’s extension for Visual Studio Code that bring Dart DevTools directly into the IDE, automatically updating import statements as files are moved around.

Chris Sells writes:

Each new release of Flutter brings with it increased usage and momentum. In fact, in April, we reported that the number of Flutter apps in the Google Play store had reached 50,000, with a peak rate of 10,000 new apps/month. Now, just over three months later, there are more than 90,000 apps in Google Play. We’re seeing a lot of this growth in India, which is now the #1 region for Flutter developers, having doubled in the last six months, which aligns well with Google’s increased investment in that region.

More information can be found on Medium.

Note that the Raspberry Pi is among the platforms capable of supporting Flutter apps.