Impeller renderer on iOS optimizations have led to reduced latency, eliminating shader compilation issues and resulting in smoother performance. Additionally, some benchmarks show that Impeller now has improved average throughput, surpassing previous benchmarks. The average frame rasterization time in the flutter/gallery transitions performance benchmark has been halved compared to the Skia renderer.

In 3.10, Flutter announced that wide gamut colors were available under a flag when using Impeller. After hearing and addressing feedback from users, wide gamut colors are now the default on iOS when using Impeller.

Progress is being made on developing the Vulkan backend for Impeller, but it hasn’t reached a quality level suitable for an official preview, according to Flutter in a blog post that contains additional details. The goal is to ensure a high-quality initial experience with Impeller on Android, which is not yet achieved. 

Plans are to potentially launch a preview period for Impeller on Android in a stable release later this year. Despite the lack of an Android preview, optimizations benefiting both OpenGL and Vulkan backends have been implemented in Impeller’s Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) over the past year. Notably, average frame rasterization times on Android have improved significantly in the flutter/gallery transitions performance benchmark. Ongoing work is dedicated to further enhancing the Android preview’s quality.

Also, Impeller for macOS is available in preview and users can test Impeller and enable it in their app by following the guidance on the Impeller page.

Flutter added a new API to retrieve various properties of a display. The new getter FlutterView.display returns a Display object. The Display object reports the physical size, the device pixel ratio, and the refresh rate of the display.

Also, when using TextField on iOS, users will automatically see an option to use the device camera to recognize characters and insert them into the field. 

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Developers should ensure that their apps support runtime configuration changes, multi-window mode, and multiple displays.

More details are available here.

Telerik reveals Fiddler Everywhere
Progress Telerik has announced Fiddler Everywhere, the latest version of the HTTP debugging solution. New features include cross-platform support, a sleek UI, and improved user experience. The company is also making Fiddler Everywhere free.

Cloudflare launches 1.1.1.1
Cloudflare has launched 1.1.1.1, which is a public DNS resolver. Along with 1.1.1.1, the company also announced a mobile app to make it easy to use 1.1.1.1 on phones.

“We launched 1.1.1.1 on April 1st. Frankly, we’ve been blown away by how many people actually made the switch. Changing your network settings is not easy, but if our traffic amount is any indication, many of you made the effort. Thank you! That said, even more people are not able to make those changes, particularly on mobile devices. We want everyone to have access to faster and more private Internet, and the millions of sites on Cloudflare value the performance boost they get when visited by 1.1.1.1 users,” Cloudflare wrote in a post.

DataStax launches its own distribution of Apache Cassandra
DataStax has announced its own distribution of Apache Cassandra. DataStax Distribution of Apache Cassandra (DDAC) is offered as a subscription and can be used to run a certified version of Apache Cassandra. DDAC includes a DataStax Bulk Loader Utility to make data migrations easy and business day (8×5) or 24×7 support.

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