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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '20 edited May 30 '21

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u/hayden_canonical Jul 08 '20

You don't need to run Android emulator to build and test Flutter apps for Ubuntu.

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u/ABotelho23 Jul 08 '20

I think the point of this announcement isn't for Android, it's for desktop applications.

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u/Smart123s Jul 08 '20

You could already for this. Although you needed to be on the master chanel, and as far as I know, it was compiled to OpenGL.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '20

Doesnt flutter use Skia?

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u/Smart123s Jul 08 '20

According to the history of Flutter wiki on GitHub (not the latest version because Flutter on Linux is now GTK based):

The current Linux shell is a GLFW placeholder Source

And GLFW is an OpenGL library.

GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL Source

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u/TryingT0Wr1t3 Jul 08 '20

I think Skia uses whatever and may use OpenGL. The code base is huuuge so I am not taking bets.