A Production-Quality Flutter Starter App

Flutter is a cross-platform UI framework that quickly gained traction. Back in mid-2018, it was made available as a release preview. Since then it has moved from an immature technology to a fairly robust foundation for building cross-platform apps. The starter app I tinkered with back then to explore the limitations has become a source for many new (and some experienced) Flutter developers as a starting point for a new Flutter project. Listed on Awesome Flutter and with thousands of reads on Medium and here, I have done a full rewrite of the original blog post to reflect the many changes that the starter app has seen since then.

The original article can be found here (for historic reasons), while the article describing the updates (included in this rewrite) explains some of the details of my experiences and may be of interest to some.

first_app is available in Google Play store and as an iOS beta!

When Flutter first came out of beta as a release preview in June 2018, I started playing with it and quickly achieved a lot and had great fun. But I couldn’t find much evidence and code that showed how to bring a large Flutter app into production and maintain it over time. As a CTO, I love playing with new technology, but I also want to understand maturity when it comes to flexibility, maintainability, support for features…