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Flutter is Google's SDK for crafting beautiful, fast user experiences for
mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Flutter works with existing
code, is used by developers and organizations around the world, and is free
and open source.

## Documentation

* [Install Flutter](https://flutter.dev/get-started/)
* [Flutter documentation](https://flutter.dev/docs)
* [Development wiki](https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki)
* [Contributing to Flutter](https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)

For announcements about new releases and breaking changes, follow the
[flutter-announce@googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/flutter-announce)
mailing list or see the
[breaking changes](https://flutter.dev/docs/release/breaking-changes) page.

## About Flutter

We think Flutter will help you create beautiful, fast apps, with a productive,
extensible and open development model.

### Beautiful user experiences

We want to enable designers to deliver their full creative vision without being
forced to water it down due to limitations of the underlying framework.
Flutter's [layered architecture] gives you control over every pixel on the
screen and its powerful compositing capabilities let you overlay and animate
graphics, video, text, and controls without limitation. Flutter includes a full
[set of widgets][widget catalog] that deliver pixel-perfect experiences on both
iOS and Android.

![Reflectly hero image][Reflectly hero image]

### Fast results

Flutter is fast. It's powered by the same hardware-accelerated 2D graphics
library that underpins Chrome and Android: [Skia]. We architected Flutter to
support glitch-free, jank-free graphics at the native speed of your device.
Flutter code is powered by the world-class [Dart platform], which enables
compilation to 32-bit and 64-bit ARM machine code for iOS and Android, as well
as JavaScript for the web and Intel x64 for desktop devices.

![Dart platform diagram][]

### Productive development

Flutter offers stateful hot reload, allowing you to make changes to your code
and see the results instantly without restarting your app or losing its state.

[![Hot reload animation][]][Hot reload]

### Extensible and open model

Flutter works with any development tool (or none at all) but includes editor
plug-ins for both [Visual Studio Code] and [IntelliJ / Android Studio]. Flutter
provides [thousands of packages][Flutter packages] to speed your development,
regardless of your target platform. And accessing other native code is easy,
with support for both [FFI] and [platform-specific APIs][platform channels].

Flutter is a fully open-source project, and we welcome contributions.
Information on how to get started can be found at our
[contributor guide](CONTRIBUTING.md).

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[layered architecture]: https://flutter.dev/docs/resources/inside-flutter
[widget catalog]: https://flutter.dev/widgets/
[Reflectly hero image]: https://github.com/flutter/website/blob/master/src/images/homepage/reflectly-hero-600px.png
[Skia]: https://skia.org/
[Dart platform]: https://dart.dev/
[Dart platform diagram]: https://github.com/flutter/website/blob/master/src/images/homepage/dart-diagram-small.png
[Hot reload animation]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flutter/website/master/src/_assets/image/tools/android-studio/hot-reload.gif
[Hot reload]: https://flutter.dev/docs/development/tools/hot-reload
[Visual Studio Code]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Dart-Code.flutter
[IntelliJ / Android Studio]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9212-flutter
[Flutter packages]: https://pub.dev/flutter
[FFI]: https://flutter.dev/docs/development/platform-integration/c-interop
[platform channels]: https://flutter.dev/docs/development/platform-integration/platform-channels
[interop example]: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/tree/master/examples/platform_channel
