flutter/flutter

This page introduces an external open-source repository. It is not an HDATF product.

What it does

Flutter is Google's SDK for building mobile, web and desktop app interfaces from a single codebase. Its main users are app developers and designers who want one team to build apps for Android, iOS, the web, Windows, macOS and Linux together. Developers write screens by composing widgets in the Dart language, Flutter draws them directly with the Skia and Impeller rendering engines, and it provides the Material and Cupertino widget sets. Dart code compiles to ARM machine code on iOS and Android, to JavaScript and WebAssembly on the web, and to x64 and ARM code on desktop. During development, hot reload applies code changes immediately while keeping state, FFI and platform channels call each operating system's features, and developers use pub.dev packages and the VS Code and IntelliJ plugins. The official supported platforms document (as of Flutter 3.47) lists Android API 24 to 37, iOS 15 to 27, Windows 10 and 11, macOS 12 to 27, Debian 10 to 13, Ubuntu 20.04 to 24.04 LTS, and the latest two versions of Chrome, Firefox and Edge plus Safari 15.6 or later as targets. The iOS setup document assumes Xcode and a USB connection to a Mac, so it is safest to assume a Mac is needed for iOS builds. The Flutter tool downloads resources from Google servers, installing from GitHub downloads the Dart SDK on first run, and the documentation notes that using the SDK means agreeing to the Google Terms of Service. The web FAQ describes Flutter web as a fit for app-centered interfaces such as PWAs and SPAs, and recommends HTML or Jaspr for text-heavy static websites and content where search visibility matters. The repository license is BSD-style (BSD-3-Clause).

License

BSD-3-Clause Permissive. Commercial use is allowed; keep the notice and do not use the authors' names for endorsement.

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