Building a Mobile App with Flutter and Laravel

I’ve been developing a mobile app at work using Flutter the last couple months and absolutely love it. It’s a UI framework developed by Google that compiles down to native code for iOS and Android. It makes developing mobile layouts feel like snapping together legos.

To learn Flutter (which uses the programming language Dart), I built the generic “to do” app, exactly as I had done when learning Laravel and React. The mobile app actually uses the same REST API (hosted at laravelreact.com) as that project, which is a really nice benefit of having a decoupled UI.

Here’s a short overview video showing how it works:

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