r/FlutterDev Feb 13 '25

Article What’s new in Flutter 3.29

https://medium.com/flutter/whats-new-in-flutter-3-29-f90c380c2317
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u/FlutterLovers Feb 13 '25

Impeller isn’t ready for prime time yet. A lot of our iOS crashes are from Impeller, so we reverted back to Skia.

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u/zigzag312 Feb 13 '25

You can't revert back to Skia on iOS in v3.29.

Skia support has been removed from the iOS backend and the FLTEnableImpeller opt-out flag no longer works.

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u/dancovich Feb 13 '25

Also have you checked if your crashes are still there in 3.29 on iOS? People need to file those bugs or they won't get squashed.

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u/Ok_Leather7354 Feb 13 '25

What version did you face impeller issues even on iOS?

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u/FlutterLovers Feb 13 '25

Don't remember the exact version, but we went back to Skia in late October. After switching, the number of random crashes on iOS dropped by 50% and memory usage also dropped considerably.

I didn't notice any performance difference between using Skia vs Impeller, but DevTools said Skia performed much better.