Upgrade to flutter 3.3 or 3.7/3.8

[monsieurtanuki]

Problem

We had problems with flutter 3.3 (September 2022?) and decided to stay on 3.0.5.
That's getting ridiculous as a new flutter version arrives within 2 weeks.

Proposed solution

I can't remember what was wrong with 3.3, and I don't recommend to jump to 3.7 asap, but at least we should upgrade to the latest stable 3.3 version.
For that we need to have a clear view:

• which bugs prevented us from upgrading to early 3.3, months ago?
• are those bugs still present with the latest 3.3?
• is there something we could change on our code in order to work with 3.3, and potentially 3.7?

[Sudhanva-Nadiger]

Hi @monsieurtanuki
Just checked whether app will run in latest stable version(3.3.10) for windows ! Initially it gave error :(, then i did flutter clean and flutter pub get . and the app ran successfully 🤩

[AshAman999]

Just checked whether app will run in latest stable version(3.3.10) for windows! Initially, it gave error :(, then I did flutter clean and flutter pub get. and the app ran successfully 🤩

Hello @Sudhanva-Nadiger !!!

The point was it wasn't related to building the app with the latest flutter, but the cause of some unintended behavior with it,
Will need some more research then just building the app with latest flutter

[Sudhanva-Nadiger]

I dono about that ! When I was going through the issue it was saying about some rendering error,smooth scrolling and some text field error ! Those things have been solved in newer version i suppose!

[monsieurtanuki]

From what I read in the issues (open+close), we experienced those problems with 3.3:

• Test runner included in production APK - Error flagged by the PlayStore pre-launch report #2905 (P1, still open)
• Infinite refocusing on a Pixel 6 with the dev branch #3196
• Can't scan on galaxy s21 #3212
• We need to downgrade again to Flutter 3.0 #3224
• FontWeight Not Working Properly for Chinese characters flutter/flutter#105014

I suggest we upgrade to 3.3.10 (2022/12/15), with a specific care about those issues - trying to reproduce them for instance.
We cannot stay forever in 3.0.5; if needed we'll have to find workarounds or accept minor cosmetic bugs.

I don't know when the next Smoothie release is expected (where most background bugs should be fixed), but anyway we should upgrade at the latest just after the next Smoothie release.

[AshAman999]

I think we are good to go to upgrade the flutter version,
in the worst case we can always revert back !

[monsieurtanuki]

@AshAman999 Thank you for your message!
That said, assuming that v4.3.0 has important enough fixes and new features, we would be better off releasing it in 3.0.5 first.
And then focus on the flutter 3.3 upgrade and its potential known side-effects.

[monsieurtanuki]

For the record it looks like with flutter 3.7 mac users now need macos 12 at least.
Which is problematic on an 11-years-old mac book.
Let me repeat myself: I HATE apple.