Although it was only just released as a beta, the open source Flutter framework for cross-platform mobile app development is drawing comparisons with Microsoft's Xamarin in the developer community.

Google is launching a new UI toolkit for developing apps, Flutter. It's similar to Microsoft's Xamarin, but with many unique features of its own.

Flutter, Google's new mobile UI framework for creating native mobile apps, is already being targeted for Xamarin development in an open source project on GitHub championed by a handful of developers.

Sentry expanded its Performance Monitoring capabilities to support React Native, Android, and Xamarin applications, and also updated its Flutter SDK.

Although it was only just released as a beta, the open source Flutter framework for cross-platform mobile app development is drawing comparisons with Microsoft's Xamarin in the developer community.

Frameworks that enable cross-platform development are rising in popularity. Used by roughly one-third of mobile developers, top frameworks include React Native, Xamarin, and Google's Flutter.