Google announced at Google I/O 2026 that Canonical is the new lead maintainer and ‘strategic steward’ of Flutter desktop for Windows, macOS and Linux. The news was shared in the ‘What’s new in Flutter’ presentation “[The Flutter] desktop experience has reached a new level of maturity this year, driven by our incredible engineering partnership with Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu”, says Kate Lovett, Engineer Manager on the Flutter Framework team at Google. “This progress is fuelled by Canonical’s dedication to ensuring that Flutter delivers on every desktop” she adds. Canonical made Flutter its ‘default choice’ for developing new Ubuntu apps […]

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