Installing Flutter on Ubuntu 17.10
Flutter is still in alpha release at the time of writing this. But it doesn't mean that its not ready for you to dabble with. Most people that I've seen using Flutter are using Flutter on a Mac or a Windows machine. However, my OS of choice is Linux running Ubuntu 17.10. So this tutorial is about how to get started with Flutter on a Linux machine, specifically Ubuntu 17.10. Preamble... Flutter is a new cross platform (read mobile ) development framework. Unlike other cross platform frameworks that primarily written with Javascript, flutter uses a new language called DART. Furthermore, on a mobile device flutter doesn't use a webview like the javascript counterparts. I've got a bevy of experience with cross platform development from the javascript frameworks through to the Xamarin. Prior to using flutter, Xamarin was my standout favorite. However, with Xamarin I found that just getting access to information, tutorials and apps to learn from was very difficult (re...