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A light-weight Flutter Engine Embedder for Raspberry Pi. Inspired by https://github.com/chinmaygarde/flutter_from_scratch.
Flutter-pi also runs without X11, so you don't need to boot into Raspbian Desktop & have X11 and LXDE load up; just boot into the command-line.

You can now **theoretically** run every flutter app you want using flutter-pi, including apps using extensions & plugins, just that you'd have to build the platform side of the plugins you'd like to use yourself.
You can now **theoretically** run every flutter app you want using flutter-pi, including apps using packages & plugins, just that you'd have to build the platform side of the plugins you'd like to use yourself.

_The difference between extensions and plugins is that extensions don't include any native code, they are just pure dart. Plugins (like the [connectivity plugin](https://github.com/flutter/plugins/tree/master/packages/connectivity)) include platform-specific code._
_The difference between packages and plugins is that packages don't include any native code, they are just pure Dart. Plugins (like the [connectivity plugin](https://github.com/flutter/plugins/tree/master/packages/connectivity)) include platform-specific code._

## Supported Platforms
Although flutter-pi is only tested on a Rasberry Pi 4 2GB, it should work fine on other linux platforms, with the following conditions:
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