ffigen VS http

Things have improved though last time I checked 4 years ago. Flutter UI kit is definitely more complete and not fragmented as RN UI kits, or even React UI kits. On top of that you have official:

- firebase

- supabase

- revenue cat

- stripe

- google maps

- google ads / analytics

- grpc

- webview

- tensorflow

just to name a few - there is even more community one e.g: lottie, mobx, just_audio etc.

interop seems also improved:

cffi got improved and been out of beta for a while and they also added FFIgen [0] that can generate bindings to C and Rust C

rust flutter bridge [1] - even though not official is very popular and well maintained. So you can use vast cross-platform crates if you need something more advanced and low latency like for Audio you have CPAL

[0] https://pub.dev/packages/ffigen

[1] https://github.com/fzyzcjy/flutter_rust_bridge

There's ffigen, which can be used to generate code that talks to the C API.

ffigen

This new mechanism utilizes the fact that Objective-C and Swift code can be exposed as C code based on API bindings. The Dart API wrapper generation tool, ffigen, can create these bindings from API headers.

For finding new packages, Flutter developers often visit https://pub.dev. Say you want to do a network request to a remote server using the http package, you can simply add it to your dependencies and then execute flutter pub get to fetch the package and make it ready to use.

For example if you want to add TTS functionality to your application, you can use an already existing package for it. If you want to submit POST/GET requests to an API, you can use the http package to add this.

But http package still lacks some features. Recently, the package was updated to 1.0.0. But being able to abort requests is still not supported by the http package. Plus, the package is just a wrapper around the HTTP implementation in dart:io and dart:html

There's also this package which adds the missing cancellation support, an issue open for 2 years.

http

Im using: Flutter with the dart http package;

http: It will be necessary to download the image in the temporary directory.

Add the HTTP package and getx package in pubspec.yaml.

The http package is part of Dart and has everything you need to request any remote server you want, no need to specifically be firebase or supabase. It's a bit low level so you might want to use other packages that make the task of consuming remote services easier.