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flutter/plugins

Analysis updated 2026-06-24

17,707DartAudience · developerComplexity · 1/5Setup · easy

TLDR

Archived monorepo that used to hold Flutter's first-party plugins for camera, maps, sign-in, and more. Active development has moved to flutter/packages.

Mindmap

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  root((flutter-plugins))
    Status
      Archived
      Moved to flutter packages
    Inputs
      Dart code
      Platform channels
    Outputs
      Camera plugin
      Image picker
      Google Maps
      Google sign in
    Use Cases
      Historical reference
      Find moved plugin path
    Tech Stack
      Dart
      Flutter
      pub.dev
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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Look up where a former first-party Flutter plugin moved to

USE CASE 2

Reference old plugin source for historical context

USE CASE 3

Find the current home of camera, maps, or image picker plugins

What is it built with?

DartFlutter

How does it compare?

flutter/pluginsimranr98/obtainiumflutter/samples
Stars17,70717,05619,128
LanguageDartDartDart
Setup difficultyeasyeasyeasy
Complexity1/52/52/5
Audiencedevelopergeneraldeveloper

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Repo is archived. Use flutter/packages or pub.dev for current plugins.

In plain English

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 This repository is no longer active.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.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Tell me where the official Flutter camera plugin lives now and how to add it to my pubspec.yaml
Prompt 2
Show me how to migrate a Flutter app off an old plugin reference from flutter/plugins to flutter/packages
Prompt 3
List the first-party Flutter plugins that used to live in flutter/plugins and where each one moved
Prompt 4
Help me file a bug report for the Google Maps Flutter plugin in the right repository

Frequently asked questions

What is plugins?

Archived monorepo that used to hold Flutter's first-party plugins for camera, maps, sign-in, and more. Active development has moved to flutter/packages.

What language is plugins written in?

Mainly Dart. The stack also includes Dart, Flutter.

How hard is plugins to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is plugins for?

Mainly developer.

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