Flutter tools for embedded Linux (eLinux)
Flutter for Embedded Linux (eLinux)
This software is a non-official extension to the Flutter SDK to build and debug Flutter apps for Embedded Linux devices.
Features
- Flutter optimized for Embedded Systems
- Minimal dependent libraries
- Lightweight than Flutter desktop for Linux (Not using X11 and GTK)
- arm64/x64 devices support
- Embedded software development
- Cross-building from x64 to arm64 support
- Install/uninstall/debug to remote target devices
- Flutter plugins support
- Display backend support
- Keyboard, mouse and touch inputs support
- Equivalent quality to Flutter desktops
- API compatibility with Flutter desktop for Windows and GLFW
- APIs such as MethodChannel and EventChannel are completely the same with them
If you want to know more details, see also flutter-embedded-linux, which is flutter embedder for eLinux.
Documentation
See: https://github.com/sony/flutter-elinux/wiki
Contributing
Welcome to this project. We welcome all your contribution and feedback. See: CONTRIBUTING.md.
Quick start
Install flutter-elinux
$ git clone https://github.com/sony/flutter-elinux.git
$ sudo mv flutter-elinux /opt/
$ export PATH=$PATH:/opt/flutter-elinux/bin
Install required tools
$ sudo apt install curl clang cmake pkg-config
Run Flutter sample app in Weston
You need to install a Wayland compositor such as Weston and launch it before launching your Flutter apps. Note that if you use Weston, Weston version 8.0 or above recommended. See also: Support status
$ sudo apt install weston
$ weston &
$ flutter-elinux devices
2 connected devices:
eLinux (desktop) • elinux-wayland • flutter-tester • Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS 5.8.0-63-generic
eLinux (desktop) • elinux-x11 • flutter-tester • Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS 5.8.0-63-generic
$ flutter-elinux create sample
$ cd sample
$ flutter-elinux run -d elinux-wayland
If you want to run your flutter app in X11, use elinux-x11 instead of elinux-wayland:
$ flutter-elinux run -d elinux-x11
Companion repos
| Repo | Purpose |
|---|---|
| flutter-elinux | Flutter tools for eLinux |
| flutter-elinux-plugins | Flutter plugins for eLinux |
| flutter-embedded-linux | eLinux embedding for Flutter |
| meta-flutter | Yocto recipes of eLinux embedding for Flutter |
Base software
This software was created by branching from flutter-tizen (branched from this version). Special thanks to the flutter-tizen team.