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
  • wayland
  • x11
  • direct rendering module (drm)
    • generic buffer management (gbm)
    • eglstream for nvidia devices
• 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

$ 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

base software

this software was created by branching from flutter-tizen (branched from this version). special thanks to the flutter-tizen team.