Experimenting with null safety in Flutter
A loose collection of notes about null safety in Flutter.
Flutter supports null safety in the beta channel.
starting with build 1.24.0-10.2.pre.
You can change to the beta channel with flutter channel beta followed by flutter upgrade.
To enable null safety in a new package or app, see the null safety introduction.
See the null safety migration guide.
A good example of this is the Flutter null safety sample.
If you find bugs or have suggestions in the core Dart null safety language feature or tooling, please file an issue here.
If you find bugs or have suggestions in the Flutter null safe APIs or tools, please file an issue here.
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