Providing REST services to a Flutter mobile application
Flask applications can be a potential backend API service provider for many popular mobile platforms, such as Flutter. Flutter is an open source mobile toolkit created by Google to provide commercially accepted and natively compiled applications for mobile platforms. It can serve as a frontend framework for our microservice applications.
To start Flutter, download the latest Flutter SDK release – in my case, for Windows, from the https://docs.flutter.dev/release/archive?tab=windows download site. Unzip the file to your development directory and register %FLUTTER_HOME%\bin
in the Windows global classpath.
Afterward, download the latest Android Studio from https://developer.android.com/studio. Then, open the newly installed Android Studio and go to Tools | SDK Manager to install the following components:
- Android SDK platform, the latest API version
- Android SDK command-line tools
- Android SDK build tools...