The number of options for flet build command grew substantially over the time and it's been inconvenient to carry all these settings in a command line.
Today, we are excited to announce another Flet pre-release which now allows configuring app build settings in pyproject.toml!
Flet packaging for iOS and Android has been relying on Kivy and it was super annoying when your app depends on Python binary packages, such as Numpy or Pillow. You needed to compile those packages yourself using Kivy command line tools. It was really frustrating and even hopeless if Kivy didn't have "recipes" for some packages, like Pydantic.
Kivy no more! We've just published Flet 0.25.0.dev3519 pre-release with the improved flet build command which does not use Kivy! Flet is now using its own Python runtime "meticulously crafted in-house".
Flet packaging implementation for iOS and Android adheres to strict specifications defined in PEP 730 (iOS) and PEP 738 (Android) which were implemented and released in Python 3.13 (and back-ported to Python 3.12). When pypi.org supports wheel tags for iOS and Android and 3rd-party Python package maintainers start uploading their mobile packages Flet will be compatible with them and you'll be able to use them in your Flet app.
I am very happy to announce the release of Flet version 0.24.0! It comes with a very long list of bug fixes, several enhancements and new features.
We are excited to announce the release of Flet 0.23.0. It is a big release with many new features and bug fixes.
Last week we attended PyCon US in a beautiful city of Pittsburgh, PA!
I've been on many conferences, but at PyCon I was amazed by the spacious venue, flawless event organization, high-quality content and welcoming community 😎, ...and good food 🍔!