Turn down Flutter Gallery

[guidezpl]

Description

The Flutter Gallery has been a useful resource and demo of numerous Flutter features for the past 4 years. However, it requires non-trivial maintenance and a significant amount of work (e.g. migration to Material 3), which together constitute more work than can be done by the team, given constraints.

Additionally, high-quality, maintained alternatives have been introduced (e.g. Material 3 sample, Wonderous). Therefore, this issue tracks the turning down of the Flutter Gallery.

Follows, an initial list (please edit) of things to do:

• Close or merge existing PRs
• Remove Google-internal translation related code (cl/597225992)
• Turn down Google-internal translation project
• Remove blocking which depend on the gallery
• Unpublish from Play Store
• Update README (Update README.md #1047)
• Redirect https://gallery.flutter.dev to https://docs.flutter.dev/gallery (Implement redirect #1073)
• Update repo description and link
• Build and publish final web version at https://flutter-gallery-archive.web.app/
• Archive repository
• Move valuable sample code to relevant packages or framework #1077
• Decide what to do with references and links to Flutter Gallery website#10030
• Decide what to do with Flutter Gallery sample samples#2139

cc @gspencergoog @kevmoo @mit-mit @redbrogdon

Googlers

See go/turning-down-gallery

Interesting statistics before archiving

• repository
  • 90 contributors
  • 4,487 Clones, 983 Unique cloners
  • 20,137 Views, 3,144 Unique visitors
• 25,300 Android installs
• 192,000 visitors to https://gallery.flutter.dev
  

[guidezpl]

For the redirect from gallery.flutter.dev, thoughts on redirecting to this repo's README?

[mit-mit]

SGTM!

[parlough]

Wherever the redirect goes, I'd prefer to redirect it to another redirect hosted on docs.flutter.dev (https://github.com/flutter/website/blob/main/firebase.json) that way we can easily adjust it there in the future.

Perhaps docs.flutter.dev/gallery to the README for now. Then we can find a better destination in the future.

Edit: https://docs.flutter.dev/gallery now redirects to this repository's README. Please consider redirecting to that link instead :)