Introducing Flutter’s new animations package

Flutter's latest stable release introduces significant upgrades, including enhanced mobile performance, smaller app sizes, Metal support for iOS, and new Material widgets. A standout feature is the animations package, which aligns with Google's Material motion specification, offering pre-designed, customizable animations to enhance UI interactions in mobile apps. The package includes four key transition patterns—container transform, shared axis transition, fade through transition, and fade transition—each designed to facilitate specific UI transitions, such as navigation between spatially related elements or transitions for unrelated UI components. The package also includes the showModal function for displaying modals and allows developers to override default page transitions in Flutter apps using SharedAxisPageTransitionsBuilder and FadeThroughPageTransitionsBuilder. Overall, the animations package provides an accessible way to implement dynamic and engaging transitions, enhancing the overall user experience in Flutter applications.