This consolidates all of the non-template .gitignore rules into the top level .gitignore, to ignore common things more broadly, with less maintenance needed for the .gitignore files. Does not touch the templates, so that they still produce needed .gitignores as part of flutter create.

* Built first tab

* Small additions

* started tab 3

* Need color arithmetics

* tab 2 built

* finalize

* lint and tests

* review

* Reapply docs after rebase

* use color.computeLuminance

* linter

* nit

* Revert "Revert "fix --force-upgrade script; upgrade to the latest package versions (#12700)" (#12729)"

This reverts commit 7f0d4f4c.

* keep linter pinned at 0.1.35

This reverts commit 5b357500.

* fix updrade script; upgrade to the latest package versions

* exclude special dependencies from transitive closure

* fix stack trace handling in flutter_test due to stack_trace change

* change type on _emptyStackTrace

* Force upgrade update packages with improved update process.

* Update packages

* Revert "Update packages"

This reverts commit a37de26d3f4f7f5a15746ff791002625faa3d3c0.

* Add framework-side support for system text scale factor.

* Rolling engine to e3404b81a53ba3180c7623a6f2190ebb28518f30
  Additional changes rolled in with engine change:
    libtxt: implementation of GetRectsForRange that processes a line at a time - e3404b8
    Provide an entropy source to the Dart engine (#4161) - e1aa867
    libtxt: search for fallback fonts that can match emoji and CJK characters - 8061df1
    Roll skia to e4679fa06a. (#4157) - 267e7a8
    Update buildroot to 53fea9aebbcc39c6522731471a1a45960ee0685e (#4160) - 02ea7ae
    Revert engine Dart roll. (#4158) - 14aab33
    Add support for system text scale factor. (#4124) - b2a7f4b
    Include _http into sky_engine libraries for analyzer (#4154) - b930f10
    libtxt: Remove postprocess_line and improve tracking of X offsets - 86f95f0
    libtxt: remove redundant line_widths (#4152) - 14bf515
    Roll dart to ade37f931e90b0fdb8fe16d6bf6f089545da55b6 (#4151) - 6f1264f

* Pin all dependencies ONCE AND FOR ALL

This replaces the secret `flutter update-packages --upgrade` with a destructive `flutter update-packages --force-upgrade` that actually goes and pins every dependency and transitive dependency in every flutter package to the same version.

* Add comments.

See https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/8986

* Adding first semantics perf test

* review commnts and analyzer fixes

* fix analyzer warning

Under android/ directory, ignore:
GeneratedPluginRegistrant.java

Under ios/ directory, ignore:
GeneratedPluginRegistrant.h
GeneratedPluginRegistrant.m
Pods/

The new assets have been optipng'ed.

Also includes minor doc fixes.

* Roll android build tools to 25.0.3

* Roll android build tools to 25.0.3 in templates

This reverts commit 5ed2984e.

Fixes https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/9342

backgroundColor -> color
backgroundImage -> image
BackgroundImage -> DecorationImage

* Add a tile scrolling test to complex_layout app

* - Review comments and fix analyzer failures.

* Use ListView.builder pattern.

* more widget const constructors

* prefer const constructors

* address review comments

* make @immutable const

* fix build

* upgrade to linter-0.1.30

* add prefer_is_empty lint
* add directives_ordering lint
* add no_adjacent_strings_in_list lint
* add no_duplicate_case_values lint
* add prefer_collection_literals lint
* add prefer_const_constructors lint
* add prefer_contains lint
* add prefer_initializing_formals lint
* add unnecessary_null_aware_assignments lint
* add unnecessary_null_in_if_null_operators lint

Nobody knew what a Block was.

Aggressively apply the const lint.

* use color.shadeXxx instead of color[Xxx]

* remove calls to .shade500 on MaterialColor

* remove calls to .shade200 on MaterialAccentColor

* fix test