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So, are the Flutter library maintainers so good that they are able to abstract out all the changes that are happening to Android system libraries, Google's helper libraries, and the restrictions on the underlying platform?



Mostly yes, Flutter is insulated from the underlying platform.

Rendering everything to a canvas has disadvantages but also advantages. Flutter doesn't need to care about most framework changes.


Rendering to canvas eliminates may be 25% of the issues that I listed.

How does rendering to canvas insulate you, for example, from the underlying permissions changes in the Android platform?




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