Canonical has been named the new lead maintainer and strategic steward of Flutter desktop for Windows, macOS, and Linux, as announced at Google I/O 2026. This marks a significant governance expansion for Flutter, with Canonical bringing its desktop expertise to guide the framework's future development. The announcement was accompanied by technical updates including improved multi-window support and a leaner Flutter core with Material and Cupertino design libraries moved to standalone packages.
Background
Flutter is Google's open-source UI framework for building natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has been using Flutter as its default choice for Ubuntu desktop app development since 2021.
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- Lobsters
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- May 31, 2026 at 01:05 AM
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- 7.0 / 10