We hypothesize that many first-time users creating a new project will look at the README.md as a starting point for "what next". As we've updated our documentation particularly for new users, having better links to our codelabs and cookbooks will help them be productive.
This renames the "module" template to the "application" template, and makes "application" the default. The existing "app" template is now deprecated.
flutter create also now recognizes the type of project in an existing directory, and is able to recreate it without having the template type explicitly specified (although you can still do that). It does this now by first looking in the .metadata file for the new project_type field, and if it doesn't find that, then it looks at the directory structure. Also, the .metadata file is now overwritten even on an existing directory so that 1) the project_type can be added to legacy projects, and 2) the version of Flutter that updated the project last is updated.
I also cleaned up a bunch of things in create_test.dart, added many more tests, and added an example test to the test/ directory in the generated output of the application template.
Fixes#22530Fixes#22344
* Reland "Roll engine to version b148e628ec86b3a9a0382e0bcfae73f0390a8232 (#20427)"
This is a re-land with downgraded `package:flutter_gallery_assets`
version.
* Downgrade package:flutter_gallery_assets to 0.1.4
* Change engine.version to 81baff97c29bb08cbf8453a3f9042c5813f84ad3 (which contains an additional fix)
* Change engine.version to e3687f70c7ece72000b32ee1b3c02755ba5361ac (since mac tarballs are corrupted on earlier commit)
Reason for revert: The package:flutter_gallery_assets has removed some images which are required for the examples/flutter_gallery, so the gallery build is failing (only discovered after landing, since gallery doesn't seem to get built during github PR presubmit checks)
This CL
* rolls `engine.version` to flutter/engine@b148e628 (which includes dart sdk 2.1.0-dev)
* rolls `goldens.version` to flutter/goldens@6c45fafdf (which includes updates due to skia changes in engine)
* changes `platform.dill` to `platform_strong.dill` in various places due to flutter/engine@a84b210b
* adds explicit `environment: sdk: ">=2.0.0-dev.68 < 3.0.0"` constraints to `pubspec.yaml` and `pubspec.yaml.tmpl` files (since pub defaults to `<2.0.0` if omitted)
* upgrades to newer versions of various 3rd party packages (to ensure transitive dependencies have `<3.0.0` sdk constraint)
Dart is migrating to .dart_tool/ as the location for cached artifacts
and other temporary files generated by tooling in the SDK. As part of
this, pub will be migrating from .pub to .dart_tool/pub.
In future, this path will also be used for other tooling, such as package:build.
Allows the user to specify the kind of project to create. The default is 'app'. Other choices are 'plugin' (the old '--plugin' behavior), and 'package'.
A Flutter 'package' is a Dart package that depends on Flutter, but does not contain native code.
Fixes#10377.
Going forward, Android support libraries are published on maven (instead of bundling them with the SDK). Many plugins depend on these. To avoid requiring plugin users to add the maven repository to their app this change adds the repository to the template for `flutter create`.
This also bumps the support-annotations dependency to 25.4.0 (which also requires the new maven repository).
