Google has released version 1.0 of Flutter, its open source Android and iOS mobile app SDK, at Flutter Live in London, England.

In addition to mobile apps, developers will be able to use Flutter to build apps for the web, desktop and embedded devices -- all from a single code base.

The Flutter team has partnered with the Google News Initiative on a "toolkit" to help news outlets create their own dedicated mobile apps.

Google has taken its and UI framework for mobile app design and development out of beta. But can Flutter really achieve the dream of good cross-platform apps?

When Google expanded Flutter mobile app SDK to the web, desktop, and embedded devices, the company published early instructions for developing Flutter apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Flutter has been around for years, advertised to be the one UI framework you need to make mobile apps on both Android and iOS.

Flutter 2 also brings production quality support for the web, with a focus on progressive web apps (PWAs) that behave like desktop apps, single page apps, and mobile apps on the web. Google has ...

Tim Sneath, product lead for Flutter at Google, told SiliconANGLE in an interview that Flutter 2 makes it possible for mobile app developers to reach the web with the same code base.

Google finally took the wraps off Flutter 1.0, its new approach to cross-platform mobile development nirvana: creating native iOS and Android apps with one codebase.