Golang Flutter App FFI

This repo demonstrates a very simple Flutter app with Golang used as backend lanugage, communicating using FFI (Foreign Function Interface), the app is a very simple note taking app that currently allows you to whip up a message and save it into a message.txt file.

Example

Prerequisites

• go
• make
• flutter sdk version 2.16.2^

Usage

Try it out:

$ make run

# Overrite FLUTTER_DEVICE to change the flutter device build option
# WARNNING: may not work with certain devices
$ make run FLUTTER_DEVICE=chrome

Tested Devices

The following are the Flutter Supported Devices

Mobile

• [ ] android
• [ ] ios

Desktop

• [x] windows
• [ ] linux

Project Structure

• lib
  • main.dart
  • create_message.dart
• vendor
  • text.go
  • go.mod
• vendor/out (tmp)
  • text.a
  • text.h

lib - flutter code files

create_message.dart - Golang logic using FFI to Dart

vendor - Golang files as backend

vendor/out - Golang compiled files

License

MIT.