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Too bad it's Windows-only, I wanted to try it since I build a flutter app at the moment but it does not run on Wine it seems.

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Surprising right? Considering Microsoft themselves understood development tools should be cross platform.

So the Flutter UI Builder is not written in Flutter? Good selling point right there.

That would be great... I'm still waiting until apps like this actually work on android/ios instead of only on laptops. UX I actually like to do in another atmosphere than programming; currently I just sit with an iPad + Pencil on the couch and work it out like that before I go back to the laptop and implement it. It would be nice to go a step further and actually create something I can then export to my laptop.

Author here, the widget maker is actually written in Flutter and it can definitely compile to Linux/ Mac/ Windows/ Android and anything that has a screen.

Flutter Desktop, unfortunately, is still in a very early phase and I had some troubles getting the same experience one all platforms. I'm working on fixing those issues and I will provide a Mac version pretty soon and eventually a Linux and Android build too.

What technology can one even choose in the current year to be confined to Windows? UWP?!

Microsoft Visual C++ according to the pdb file in the Windows download, although the flutter_windows.dll (that likely does the rendering) file also contains some Chrome related stuff (not sure if it's just the skia graphics library or more from a cursory glance).

Well it says Mac version coming soon, so may be he's still testing for Mac...

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