Native Component Usage

Using platform-specific APIs and UI components.

While Flutter renders its own UI, you can still access native platform APIs (like camera, GPS, battery) and even embed native UI components. This is done using "Platform Channels". Many plugins on pub.dev already exist for common native features, so you often don't need to write the platform channel code yourself.

Code Example

// Example using a plugin (e.g., url_launcher) to use a native API.
// Add url_launcher to your pubspec.yaml first.
import 'package:url_launcher/url_launcher.dart';

void _launchURL() async {
  const url = 'https://flutter.dev';
  if (await canLaunch(url)) {
    await launch(url);
  } else {
    throw 'Could not launch $url';
  }
}