diff --git a/packages/image_picker/image_picker_for_web/example/integration_test/image_picker_for_web_test.dart b/packages/image_picker/image_picker_for_web/example/integration_test/image_picker_for_web_test.dart
index 256fe3463b68..fffbd6d0be90 100644
--- a/packages/image_picker/image_picker_for_web/example/integration_test/image_picker_for_web_test.dart
+++ b/packages/image_picker/image_picker_for_web/example/integration_test/image_picker_for_web_test.dart
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ import 'package:integration_test/integration_test.dart';
 
 const String expectedStringContents = 'Hello, world!';
 const String otherStringContents = 'Hello again, world!';
-final Uint8List bytes = utf8.encode(expectedStringContents) as Uint8List;
-final Uint8List otherBytes = utf8.encode(otherStringContents) as Uint8List;
+final Uint8List bytes = const Utf8Encoder().convert(expectedStringContents);
+final Uint8List otherBytes = const Utf8Encoder().convert(otherStringContents);
 final Map<String, dynamic> options = <String, dynamic>{
   'type': 'text/plain',
   'lastModified': DateTime.utc(2017, 12, 13).millisecondsSinceEpoch,
diff --git a/packages/rfw/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/rfw/CHANGELOG.md
index 347db107d360..cbee9e29c2e3 100644
--- a/packages/rfw/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/rfw/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-## NEXT
+## 1.0.10
 
 * Fixes stale ignore: prefer_const_constructors.
 * Updates minimum supported SDK version to Flutter 3.10/Dart 3.0.
+* Changes package internals to avoid explicit `as Uint8List` downcast.
 
 ## 1.0.9
 
diff --git a/packages/rfw/lib/src/dart/binary.dart b/packages/rfw/lib/src/dart/binary.dart
index 76270b3c8033..e7242ef18e6f 100644
--- a/packages/rfw/lib/src/dart/binary.dart
+++ b/packages/rfw/lib/src/dart/binary.dart
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ class _BlobEncoder {
   }
 
   void _writeString(String value) {
-    final Uint8List buffer = utf8.encode(value) as Uint8List;
+    final Uint8List buffer = const Utf8Encoder().convert(value);
     _writeInt64(buffer.length);
     bytes.add(buffer);
   }
diff --git a/packages/rfw/pubspec.yaml b/packages/rfw/pubspec.yaml
index c15b97011cc2..1ab993f9eeb6 100644
--- a/packages/rfw/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/packages/rfw/pubspec.yaml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: rfw
 description: "Remote Flutter widgets: a library for rendering declarative widget description files at runtime."
 repository: https://github.com/flutter/packages/tree/main/packages/rfw
 issue_tracker: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22p%3A+rfw%22
-version: 1.0.9
+version: 1.0.10
 
 environment:
   sdk: ">=3.0.0 <4.0.0"