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Flutter SDK overview

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The Flutter SDK has the packages and command-line tools that you need to develop Flutter apps across platforms. To get the Flutter SDK, see Install.

What's in the Flutter SDK

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The following is available through the Flutter SDK:

  • Dart SDK
  • Heavily optimized, mobile-first 2D rendering engine with excellent support for text
  • Modern react-style framework
  • Rich set of widgets implementing Material Design and iOS styles
  • APIs for unit and integration tests
  • Interop and plugin APIs to connect to the system and 3rd-party SDKs
  • Headless test runner for running tests on Windows, Linux, and Mac
  • Flutter DevTools for testing, debugging, and profiling your app
  • flutter and dart command-line tools for creating, building, testing, and compiling your apps

Note: For more information about the Flutter SDK, see its README file.

flutter command-line tool

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The flutter CLI tool (flutter/bin/flutter) is how developers (or IDEs on behalf of developers) interact with Flutter.

dart command-line tool

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The dart CLI tool is available with the Flutter SDK at flutter/bin/dart.

Unless stated otherwise, the documentation on this site reflects the latest stable version of Flutter. Page last updated on 2024-04-09. View source or report an issue.