Every year the Flutter team publishes a roadmap, and the 2026 edition is unusually concrete about direction even as it avoids version-number promises. The team has committed to four stable and twelve beta releases this year, and — notably — stated it is not investing in built-in code push. What it is investing in tells you where cross-platform development is heading. WebAssembly becomes the default for web The biggest technical bet is WebAssembly . Flutter is on track to make Wasm the default output for Flutter Web, after preparing with Wasm dry-runs in 3.35 and later builds. The payoff is real: in the team’s tests, WebAssembly compilation delivered 40% faster load times and 30% less runtime memory . For anyone who has hesitated to ship serious apps on Flutter Web because of startup cost, this is the change that moves the needle. Flutter comes to the living room Google announced a collaboration with LG to bring Flutter to LG smart TVs , with an official Flutter-on-webOS SDK targe...