Welcome to the Flutter API reference documentation.

Flutter is Google’s mobile UI framework for crafting high-quality native interfaces on iOS and
Android in record time. Flutter works with existing code, is used by developers and
organizations around the world, and is free and open source.

The API reference herein covers all libraries that are exported by the Flutter SDK.

More Documentation
This site hosts Flutter's API documentation. Other documentation can be found at the following
locations:

 flutter.io (main site)
 Installation
 Codelabs
 Contributing to Flutter

Importing a Library

Framework Libraries
Libraries in the "Libraries" section below (or in the left navigation) are part of the core Flutter
framework and are imported using 'package:flutter/<library>.dart', like so:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

import 'package:flutter/services.dart';

Dart Libraries
Libraries in the "Dart" section exist in the 'dart:' namespace and are imported
using 'dart:<library>', like so:

import 'dart:async';

import 'dart:ui';

Except for 'dart:core', you must import a Dart library before you can use it.

Other Libraries
Libraries in other sections are supporting libraries that ship with Flutter. They are organized by
package and are imported using 'package:<package>/<library>.dart', like so:

import 'package:flutter_test/flutter_test.dart';
import 'package:file/local.dart';

Finding Other Libraries

Flutter has a rich community of packages that have been contributed by the open-source
community. You can browse those packages at pub.dartlang.org

Libraries
animation
The Flutter animation system. [...]

cupertino
Flutter widgets implementing the current iOS design language. [...]

foundation
Core Flutter framework primitives. [...]

gestures
The Flutter gesture recognizers. [...]

material
Flutter widgets implementing Material Design. [...]

painting
The Flutter painting library. [...]

physics
Simple one-dimensional physics simulations, such as springs, friction, and gravity, for
use in user interface animations. [...]

rendering
The Flutter rendering tree. [...]

scheduler
The Flutter Scheduler library. [...]

semantics
The Flutter semantics package. [...]

services
Platform services exposed to Flutter apps. [...]

widgets
The Flutter widgets framework. [...]
Dart
dart:ui
Built-in types and core primitives for a Flutter application. [...]

Core

dart:async
Support for asynchronous programming, with classes such as Future and Stream. [...]

dart:collection
Classes and utilities that supplement the collection support in dart:core. [...]

dart:convert
Encoders and decoders for converting between different data representations, including
JSON and UTF-8. [...]

dart:core
Built-in types, collections, and other core functionality for every Dart program. [...]

dart:developer
Interact with developer tools such as the debugger and inspector. [...]

dart:math
Mathematical constants and functions, plus a random number generator. [...]

dart:typed_data
Lists that efficiently handle fixed sized data (for example, unsigned 8 byte integers) and
SIMD numeric types. [...]

VM

dart:io
File, socket, HTTP, and other I/O support for non-web applications. [...]

dart:isolate
Concurrent programming using isolates: independent workers that are similar to threads
but don't share memory, communicating only via messages. [...]

platform_integration
Android
Flutter platform integration APIs for Android.

iOS
 Flutter platform integration APIs for iOS.

flutter_test
flutter_test
Testing library for flutter, built on top of package:test. [...]

flutter_driver
flutter_driver
Provides API to test Flutter applications that run on real devices and emulators. [...]

flutter_driver_extension
This library provides a Dart VM service extension that is required for tests that
use package:flutter_driver to drive applications from a separate process, similar to
Selenium (web), Espresso (Android) and UI Automation (iOS). [...]

flutter_localizations
flutter_localizations
Localizations for the Flutter library

async
async

boolean_selector
boolean_selector

charcode
charcode
Defines symbolic names for character code points. [...]

charcode.ascii.dollar_lowercase
Declare integer constants for each ASCII character. [...]

charcode.htmlentity.dollar_lowercase
Character codes based on HTML 4.01 character entity names. [...]
collection
collection
dart.pkg.collection.algorithms
Import collection.dart instead.

dart.pkg.collection.equality
Import collection.dart instead.

dart.pkg.collection.iterable_zip
Import collection.dart instead.

dart.pkg.collection.priority_queue
Import collection.dart instead.

dart.pkg.collection.wrappers
Import collection.dart instead.

convert
convert

crypto
crypto

file
chroot
file
local
memory
record_replay

intl
date_symbol_data_custom
date_symbol_data_file
This file should be imported, along with date_format.dart in order to read locale data
from files in the file system.

date_symbol_data_http_request
 This file should be imported, along with date_format.dart in order to read locale data via
http requests to a web server..

date_symbol_data_local
Date/time formatting symbols for all locales. [...]

date_symbols
date_time_patterns
Date/time formatting symbols for a large subset of locales. [...]

intl
This library provides internationalization and localization. This includes message
formatting and replacement, date and number formatting and parsing, and utilities for
working with Bidirectional text. [...]

intl_standalone
This provides facilities for Internationalization that are only available when running
standalone. You should import only one of this or intl_browser.dart. Right now the only
thing provided here is finding the operating system locale.

message_lookup_by_library
Message/plural format library with locale support. This can have different
implementations based on the mechanism for finding the localized versions of messages.
This version expects them to be in a library named e.g. 'messages_en_US'. The prefix is
set in the "initializeMessages" call, which must be made for a locale before any lookups
can be done. [...]

number_symbol_data
Date/time formatting symbols for all locales. [...]

number_symbols