flutter-pi VS ubuntu-desktop-installer

Flutter on a bare bone Raspberry Pi sounds interesting but I doubt that this will be come an official additional platform so it's probably just a fun experiment that exists for a couple of years now.

Work done by Canonical with their Desktop Installer, Sonos with the setup sequence, foldable support by Microsoft's Andrei Diaconu, Raspberry PI support and e-ink POC by Simon Lightfoot. The list could go on and on.

Here's an embedder for certain embedded Linux boards: https://github.com/ardera/flutter-pi

I have a RPi 4 with dedicated camera module (with ribbon connector) and I need to access and control this camera using Dart+Flutter. I use flutter-pi (https://github.com/ardera/flutter-pi) but I'm not sure what package/plugin should I use to achieve this task. I found "camera" plugin (https://pub.dev/packages/camera) but it looks like it's more for mobile applications and I'm afraid that it will not work in my case. Is there any preferred way to do this?

Try https://fuchsia.dev/ or https://github.com/ardera/flutter-pi

First thing to do is to set up the Raspberry Pi. In the README of the flutter-pi repo it's mentioned that flutter-pi should run without Xserver. Therefore I went with a headless version of RaspberryOS. Once you've flashed the os to a ssd card, follow the instructions in the flutter-pi README and install drivers for your touch screen of choice. Be sure to clone the engine-binaries branch of flutter-pi and place the files in the correct directories aswell.

It appears ZFS option will be included, it just isn't the top priority and might take some time.

Outside of Google, there are also high profile uses of Flutter. BMW used Flutter for MyBMW (https://flutter.dev/showcase/bmw). An even more interesting use case for Flutter is the one being done by Toyota, who are using Flutter for their infotainment systems (https://flutter.dev/showcase/toyota). Finally, back to the tech industry, Canonical is using Flutter to develop Ubuntu's installer (https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-installer).

Work done by Canonical with their Desktop Installer, Sonos with the setup sequence, foldable support by Microsoft's Andrei Diaconu, Raspberry PI support and e-ink POC by Simon Lightfoot. The list could go on and on.

I understand there's a new installer coming with Ubuntu 22.04 so maybe that will be an option for Kubuntu at some point.

I can't speak with authority about the replacement Ubuntu Desktop Installer as whilst I'm involved with Ubuntu (and all flavors help each other), we don't always keep up with the technologies we aren't going to be using ourselves (I'm with the Lubuntu team that currently use calamares).

Presumably the new Ubuntu installer being built with Flutter:

https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-installer

Not sure if that's already in this version.