Flet 0.83.0 is here with major performance gains, a reworked packaging pipeline, and better project transparency - all part of our push toward a rock-solid 1.0.

Highlights in this release:

• Up to 6.7× faster control diffing for both imperative and declarative apps.
• Smarter .update() logic that eliminates redundant updates.
• Declarative field validation with Annotated types.
• Desktop binaries and build templates moved from PyPI to GitHub Releases - smaller installs, pinned versions.
• Better release traceability with milestones and pre-releases on GitHub.

Flet 0.81.0 is now available with new controls, better platform integration, and build workflow improvements.

Highlights in this release:

• New controls: Camera, CodeEditor, PageView, color pickers, RotatedBox.
• Advanced visual transitions with Hero animations and Matrix4 transforms.
• Better app packaging with flet build ios-simulator and flet build --artifact.
• Clipboard APIs for images and files.
• Web FilePicker support for direct file content (with_data=True).
• Platform locale info and locale change events.
• New LayoutControl.on_size_change event for size-aware UI.

Today, we're releasing Flet 1.0 Beta, published as version 0.80.0!

Flet 1.0 is a huge leap forward! Its goal is to ensure long-term growth, with an architecture designed to scale to larger projects, more users, and an expanding feature set.

• Developers can use either imperative or declarative style to write their Flet apps.
• The new documentation website based on mkdocs, generated from Flet code base and always up-to-date.
• End-to-end integration tests for all controls and examples.
• Extensions are back in Flet main repo, with combined docs and covered by tests.
• Examples are back to main Flet repo, always in sync with Flet API and covered by tests.
• flet debug CLI for debugging app on real devices and emulators.
• Build, test and release workflows are automated with GitHub Actions.
• Clean extensibility model with simplified API on Python and Flutter sides.

We've just merged a pull request introducing 10 new device and platform services to the Flet SDK, significantly expanding access to hardware sensors and system capabilities.

New sensor services​

• Accelerometer – Reads raw acceleration along the X, Y, and Z axes, including gravity.
• Barometer – Provides atmospheric pressure readings useful for altitude estimation.
• Gyroscope – Measures device rotation around each axis.
• Magnetometer – Detects magnetic field strength, commonly used for compass functionality.
• UserAccelerometer – Reports acceleration data with gravity filtered out for cleaner motion detection.

New system services​

• Battery – Monitors battery level, charging state, and power source changes.
• Connectivity – Detects network status and connection type (Wi-Fi, mobile, offline).
• ScreenBrightness – Allows reading and adjusting the device screen brightness.
• Share – Invokes the system share sheet to share text, files, or URLs.
• Wakelock – Prevents the device screen from dimming or sleeping while active.

Flet provides "Flet" app, for both iOS and Android, to "experience" your app on a real device. While using Flet app your Python app is still running on your computer and UI changes are streamed to a mobile device. While this approach is fast and convenient it has limitations: the app is able to only use sensors,libraries and permissions coming with Flet app and you can't know whether the app and all its dependencies are going to work when packaged and executed by a Python mobile runtime.

In the latest Flet v1 pre-release we have introduced three new Flet CLI commands to package and run Flet app on a real device or emulator:

• flet debug - to run Flet app on a device or emulator.
• flet devices - to list connected devices.
• flet emulators - to list iOS/Android emulators and manage Android emulators.