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flutter/plugins

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This is an archived repository that previously held the official plugins for Flutter, the open-source toolkit for building mobile and desktop apps from a single codebase using the Dart programming language.

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This is an archived repository that previously held the official plugins for Flutter, the open-source toolkit for building mobile and desktop apps from a single codebase using the Dart programming language. Plugins in Flutter act as bridges that let your app talk to platform-specific features, things like the camera, file storage, maps, or sign-in systems, that the core Flutter framework doesn't include by default. The repository was maintained by the core Flutter team and contained first-party plugins (meaning plugins built and supported by Flutter's own developers rather than outside contributors). Plugins listed here included ones for camera access, image picking, file selection, Google Maps integration, and Google sign-in, among others. They were published to the pub.dev package registry, which is where Dart and Flutter developers go to find and install shared code packages. This repository is no longer active. All of the source code has moved to the flutter/packages repository, and any future development happens there. If you are building a Flutter app and need one of these plugins, you should look in flutter/packages or search pub.dev directly. This archived repo remains public for historical reference only, and new issues or feature requests should be filed in the main Flutter repository.

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