FLUTTER • NATIVE INTEGRATION How to Connect Flutter to Native Code Using Platform Channels A step-by-step tutorial with Dart, Kotlin, and Swift examples, plus error handling and production best practices. Reading time: 12–15 minutes Flutter allows developers to build Android and iOS applications from a shared codebase. Sometimes an application needs a platform API or native SDK that is not available through an existing Flutter package. Platform channels provide a way for Dart code to communicate with native Android and iOS code. What we will build: a Flutter button that calls native code. Android returns a message from Kotlin, while iOS returns a message from Swift. In this article Why platform channels? How they work Flutter and Dart code Android implementation iOS implementation Error handling and best practices 1. Why Use Platform Channels? Platform channels are useful when y...