Printing in Flutter via thermal bleutooth printer
If you develop apps for small business, sooner or later you will get asked to add printing capabilities to your app. You will soon realise that many businesses rely on cheap cost-effective bluetooth thermal printers. iOS and Android has built-in options to print however this is pretty limited, so today we are going to learn how to connect your flutter app with a thermal printer
Requirements — hardware
All you need to make it work is the following
- Flutter installed on a computer
- a device with bluetooth like an iPhone or a tablet
- a bluetooth thermal printer.
You can use any type of blootooth printer. They are pretty cheap and any printer will do the job: the one I have used recently was given to me by a restaurant and it is selling at £39 in the uk through amazon, see here the link.
Requirement — software
We defenitively want to use few plugins. As always kudos to those who wrote the code!!!