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As Flutter, the open-source framework maintained by Google, continues to evolve, more developers are asking if Flutter can be used for industrial applications.

Fluttercon 2024 unites Flutter enthusiasts, showcasing innovations and offering networking. Engage with Industrial Flutter experts for demos on embedded and desktop platforms, and join our workshop to advance your Flutter skills.

Flutter runs on many platforms: From Android/iOS, to Web, and Desktop i.e. Windows, macOS and Linux Desktop. Those are not typically resource-constrained environments though. So, as an experiment, I thought it'd be interesting to see how flutter performs on some really resource-constrained hardware, like a Raspberry Pi Zero (1st gen)!

Explore ListView.builder's power and pitfalls in rendering extensive data. Uncover performance challenges, delve into the impact of RenderParagraphs, and discover a custom RenderObject solution for improved efficiency.

OPC UA is a platform independent standard for data modeling and communication that plays a major role in the horizontal and vertical integration of industrial automation systems. It is also a popular choice for connecting industrial controllers (PLCs) and entire machines with HMIs. Having an OPC UA client available is an important building block for popularizing Flutter for machine control applications.

Two years have passed since we at basysKom first attempted to use the open62541 OPC UA implementation in Flutter which resulted in a blog post describing our experience and the difficulties we encountered (for context have a quick look at the old post). Now it was time to have a fresh look into the matter to see if any of the blockers have been resolved.

In the realm of C/C++ programming, it's considered essential to run projects under memory leak detectors throughout the development process. In Flutter, despite Dart benefiting from garbage collection, sizeable applications often incorporate a significant volume of C code through FFI. The importance of fixing memory leaks is particularly relevant in the world of embedded devices.

Are you going to Fluttercon in Berlin? Here's a selection of talks relevant to Flutter on embedded systems.

Admittedly, hot reload is loved by many flutter developers. However, is it possible to use it with an embedded device? This blog post explains how it works.

To demonstrate the capabilities of Flutter on the Texas Instruments AM6254, KDAB engineers developed a modern material 3 demo application for the SoC(system on a chip).

As Flutter has pretty low requirements on the underlying native platform, it's quite easy to make it work in embedded environments. This blog post is about my experiences with this.

Crossware, as a Toradex partner, decided to invest in a Flutter PoC on a i.MX 8M Plus and use a Torizon container to understand the capabilities and boundaries.

My favorite Github location for built flutter engine artifacts, the latest stable arm and arm64 engine artifacts and binaries, is here. Read on, if this doesn't suit your needs.

So you want to run flutter on an embedded device? I would not be surprised if you have run into the issue of not being able to find a fitting flutter engine build. Find out more.