Flutter, Dart, and Raspberry Pi

Learn how Flutter on the Raspberry Pi enables makers to build exciting new embedded user interfaces. The Raspberry Pi was introduced as a tool to teach computer science, but since its introduction has been a staple in every maker’s toolbox. It’s been used as the basis for maker projects such as IoT devices, game emulators, and kiosks. So this is the answer to "What would a Flutter & Raspberry Pi game console look like?"
Speakers: Khanh Nguyen, Camille Simon
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[@krishnajiyedlapalli4306]

I've been waiting for this for a long time, Thank you so much 🥰😍

[@merthyr1831]

I'd love to see you expand on this: What about analog inputs? Maybe launching other flutter apps within a launcher application to turn the gameHAT and Pi into a console-like experience, where new games can be added/removed using the gamepad input!

[@carloss2202]

nice project , and very well explained, thank you friends

[@bulelanibotman]

this is actually awesome

[@blu3h4t]

This is amazing :D

[@joshaustintech]

SO cool!!!

[@verticrow]

So cool!

[@pingpongkong98]

Cool video!

[@crltsmrtnz]

great!!

[@MirkoRaimoDev]

Wow! An official tutorial on that! AMAZING! ❤️❤️

[@RobertLeeAtYT]

Videos from a parallel universe where Pi are actually available. In this universe these things have been gone from retail availability for three years

[@KhanhFlutter]

It is truly wild how popular Pis are now! I was insanely lucky, just walked into MicroCenter to look around for fun and they had just gotten a bunch of Pi 4s in stock that morning! That ended up being the catalyst for this project :)

[@MichaelDuarte]

This is so cool!! Great job team 👏👏

[@moisesbinzie]

Been waiting for something like this for a looooong time ❤🎉

[@KhanhFlutter]

Thanks for being a part of the Flutter journey :) Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@AndresPerezMelo]

It's great, I want to start creating with Raspberry, and what better than with Dart.

[@sanderroest9619]

It would be nice to learn more about the development workflow. Is it possible to add a raspberry pi as a target, similar to an Android device, and do the heavy lifting (compiling, debugging) on a remote machine?

[@antonlempiy7086]

I believe build target would be Debian Linux connected as a remote device to laptop using debug through websocket.

[@chengduman]

Is that vocal fry sound when Ms. Camille Simon speaks at the end of each sentence?

[@nickdrobec7665]

Does this also work on an orangepi with linux installed?

[@bottletyre]

Where to get the Gamepad ?

[@GArvinthKrishna]

Can we use ODROID N2 GPIO?

[@charliesmotherman3383]

Good luck getting your flutter projects to build on the RPI. The impellerc update screwed everything up. Haven't been able to build my projects (on my rpi) for over 4 months now.

[@KhanhFlutter]

What issues have you been having with building on the Pi? If you've already filed an issue on GitHub, please feel free to link me to that instead of rehashing everything :)

[@charliesmotherman3383]

@@KhanhFlutter issue 116703 🙂

[@charliesmotherman3383]

@@KhanhFlutter Would you please leave a comment on 116703 ([flutter_tools] ShaderCompilerException running impellerc on arm64 platforms ) explaining what the flutter teams plans are for fixing 116703. Thanks

[@lukasheiligenbrunner2272]

Can I cross compile for arm from a x64 machine?

[@MikeNugget]

Let's hope that Flutter will meet Kata OS in the near future🤟

[@KhanhFlutter]

That would be awesome! Dart has introduced support for RISC-V chips, so... We'll both have to wait and see!

[@indairaida]

😍😍

[@gakventure]

Is it possible to deploy Flutter app in Raspbian Headless OS?

[@KhanhFlutter]

What kind of app is it? Flutter on Raspbian (Linux) wouldn't be an issue (like this game!) but launching an app window without a display would be the issue.

[@gakventure]

I made an app that contains multiple digital gauges that displays multiple sensor readings. The issue I'm facing is the boot time of the RPI (in desktop OS). If it's headless then my app will launch quickly after boot up 😃

[@pieterscholtz3378]

@@gakventure What about flutter-pi ? , it runs without X

[@gakventure]

@@pieterscholtz3378 Thanks you for your reply. I have heard of Flutter Pi. But I'm not sure how to get started.

[@diegoesolorzano]

What about using dart and not flutter? Why ussing Flutter on a headless device???@@gakventure

[@DannyAckerman]

Lol. I thought the focus of this video would be how to install and run Flutter on Pi. Is that official now? Last I saw there was some OSS library to help with this. Are there official instructions?

[@gorudonu]

this project is running on normal linux

[@KhanhFlutter]

This Pi is running on Raspbian, which is a special flavor of Debian made specifically for the Pi! So you can install Flutter using the standard Linux installation instructions available on the website: docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install/linux#get-sdk

[@rehmanarshad1848]

I'll be honest. I'm not able to follow any of the dart code ... will need to do more research on dart that being said ... I'm already sold on flutter 2, you could potentially create a useful front-end that's natively compatible with iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and Samsung smart fridges 😂😂😅 Wonder if there are any good dart tutorials and resources? 🤔

[@johnnywest5445]

Google may be able to purchase Raspberry Pis in bulk at the price you stated, but the 3's and 4's are still well over $100 each. Will Flutter and Dart run on an Orange Pi?

[@GautamMS]

Code

[@audas]

Hoping to find out how to install flutter onto Raspberry pi - 30% of the way through (wadsworth constant) and "Install flutter" - what... what was that? How to draw an owl. Thanks for nothing folxs. This video was about 2 girls working at Flutter not about developing with it.

[@krtirtho]

U lost us when said u used snap XD

[@BuffRobotiX]

Flutter and Canonical are buds so they have to name drop Canonical products whenever they can.

[@KhanhFlutter]

Story time! I personally had never used snap before and had no idea what it was until I started this project. So, it was a great opportunity to test it out and try another way that the community can get access to Flutter. It was super quick and easier and the easier and more ways we can get folks to have easy access to the Flutter SDK, the better ;)