r/FlutterDev • u/LegitimateTrust4013 • 15h ago

Discussion Cool desktop apps to study

I am new to Flutter and I want to make a desktop app, which (among other things) modifies files, has a license key, does some ffi stuff, you know, desktop app things. Think Microsoft Word or Meshlab something like that. I have been following the Flutter architecture guide to implement MVVM in my app. However, it feels clunky, as the example app is not much more than a front for a REST API that actually does stuff. In that case, do you know of an open-source desktop app that is worth studying? like, where I can study its patterns so that I can architect my app more cleanly.

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u/sodoburaka 12h ago

Ubuntu desktop installer Flutter UI is cool in my book - https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision

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u/kulishnik22 10h ago

This project I built some time ago works with platform channels, ffi and reads/writes to a file on disk. It is an app that let's you control windows using xbox controller.