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Last updated onNov 6, 2024
Last updated onMay 23, 2024
Summary: Want to make your design to code handoff smooth? Learn how to convert your Figma design to Flutter code using DhiWise Flutter app builder. Understand more about the Figma and Flutter technology and Figma to Flutter conversion with our step-by-step guide.
Today for every organization building an exclusive app has become indispensable. To reach out to potential customers, businesses are making huge investments in mobile app development as the number of mobile app users is consistently growing worldwide.
However, building a successful mobile application isn’t a cakewalk; there are multiple things you need to consider during app development, such as planning, designing, coding, testing, and maintenance.
Among them, converting your design to code is the most frustrating and time-consuming task for developers unfamiliar with the design world.
Figma is a popular web-based vector graphics editor and prototyping tool. It comes with additional functionalities supported by desktop applications for macOS and Windows.
It allows mobile users to view Figma prototypes in real time using Figma mirror companion apps for Android and iOS. It enables designers and developers to create UI and wireframing for web and mobile apps.
Flutter is an open-source Google UI toolkit to develop beautiful, natively compiled apps for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Windows, Google Fuchsia, and the web from a single codebase.
Flutter is among the top software repositories. Based on the Github stars. There are over 100,000 apps scripted using Flutter since its first launch. One of the most notable apps is Xianyu, created by the Alibaba team, which 50 million people use.
Though translating UI/UX design to Flutter is one of the frustrating and time-consuming parts of app development, DhiWise helps you to bridge the gap between designing and development with its Flutter Builder. It enables developers to convert Figma design to responsive Flutter code in a few steps.
Let’s learn how to translate the beautiful Figma design into an excellent Flutter app code with DhiWise Flutter Builder.
Here is the step-by-step guide to generating Flutter code:
To convert your Figma design to Flutter code, first, you need to sign up on DhiWise. You can directly sign up with a Google, GitHub, or Discord account.
Once the account is created, you will be directed to the Dashboard, where you can view and search the created applications, select templates, and explore screens for web and mobile apps.
To create a new mobile app click Mobile App where you can create Android and iOS applications using Flutter, Swift, and Kotlin.
Once you select Mobile App it will navigate you to the next screen where you can upload Figma design and convert it into the interactive code. Click Bring Your Designs to Life button to convert your Figma design to code.
This will open a Create a new app window where you need to define the core attributes of your application including Application name, Framework, Figma Account, and the Figma file URL to start creating your app. For the Figma Account, you would have to attach a Figma account of yours by clicking on Add new account, and in the Figma URL paste the Figma file link.
These features in DhiWise Flutter Builder enable you to select design screens of your choice and set up app configuration.
Once you fill in all the details for your app click Start Building. A new window will appear where you can select the app screens using which you want to create an app from the Figma URL you provided.
Select the screens you want to import and click Confirm Selection.
Next, you can configure the essential components of your application such as the Package name, Bundle ID, and app icon in the Application Visibility. After updating the changes click Save and Continue.
Note: Your application can also be configured later from the “Settings” option.
And DhiWise magic begins here! DhiWise will start fetching all the design resources from the Figma design file, as shown below.
During the process, the design resources are fetched, scanned, and identified. As a result, you will get auto-identified widgets, custom widgets, auto-setup actions, and validations from your provided design file.
From here you can easily set up the initial screen of the application and the screen to be opened after the splash screen.
Select the splash screen and click Next step.
Select the screen next to the splash screen and click Submit to proceed.
From here you can proceed to the screen list.
On the Screens, you will see all the selected screens from your app design. To customize them, click Configure. The Configure option allows you to customize the UI, set actions on widgets, and edit styling.
DhiWise Flutter Builder provides a Smart Code Editor that allows you to edit Screen UI similar to an IDE. You can view the auto-identified actions, add new actions, and set up the onReady lifecycle method from here.
Here is how you can set up onClick action on the button.
You can set up different actions like Navigation, API integration, Authentication, Permissions, and more as shown in the following snippet.
Here is how you can set up the onReady lifecycle method.
The Styling option lets you update primary theme, add secondary theme, and create new color styles.
In case you encounter any Figma design changes in the middle of UI customization, and want to bring those changes in DhiWise, they can easily be synchronized without affecting the UI using the Sync design changes option.
Next, you can integrate APIs to set up connections with the server. The platform lets you add, view, edit, and delete the APIs.
To add a new API, you can either upload a Postman file from the existing Postman collection or create and add API manually with DhiWise API Runner.
The API integration option in DhiWise lets you upload Postman or Swagger files or URLs to import APIs for your application.
If you don’t have any Postman Collection or Swagger file DhiWise Flutter Builder allows you to create a new API with its API Runner as shown below.
DhiWise simplifies adding constants to your code. It allows you to create and manage multiple constant files in the app.
Once you have done with the UI customization and styling, the changes can be previewed before generating the final code, also there is a facility to Copy link and share the preview with others in your team.
Once your UI customization is done such as adding actions, setting up APIs, and more, you are ready to generate your app code.
With the platform, you can either generate code for single or multiple screens or build the entire app with the Build app option.
Additionally, the Build app option allows you to generate the Flutter code with the desired state management library or without state management.
Well, if you wish to go with state management support, DhiWise Flutter Builder provides inbuilt support for the popular GetX, Provider, Riverpod, and BLoC libraries or you can also generate the UI code with stateless widgets for your app design.
Once you proceed, you will get the structured Flutter application code, with the following SDK version and the Libraries.
The platform generates clean code with reusable code components following a clean code structure. A code view will open as your app code is generated where you can preview your app design by clicking Run, and download your app code as ZIP with Sync or Download code. Also, see the version of your code, the last build version, and the chosen code type under Code Summary.
When you run the preview, you can check all your app screens and verify your screens on different devices.
To download the entire source code from the platform click Sync or Download code. And boom🎉 your job is done!
The platform comes with GitHub or GitLab integration as well as extensions for your favorite IDEs i.e., VS Code, Android Studio, and IntelliJ simplifying code sharing, collaboration, and management all from one place.
To sync code with GitHub or GitLab repositories go to the Integration option under Settings, here you can select a repository to sync code.
To sync code with VScode, Android Studio, and IntelliJ IDEA, install the plugin in your IDE and then copy-paste the application token into the plugin.
And that’s how your entire app can be created in just a few steps with all the functionalities you need! Refer to DhiWise Docs to learn how you can achieve more using DhiWise to start building your amazing app.
DhiWise provides two more awesome features for its developers to make their development life exciting while using DhiWise. Ready-to-use Flutter templates; and the other is Figma to Code plugin that lets you get the code from your Figma platform in minutes.
And don’t forget about WiseGPT, DhiWise’s powerful AI assistant that analyzes your entire codebase to generate production-ready, personalized code without writing prompts! No more repetitive coding or struggling with complex APIs.
WiseGPT takes care of the mundane tasks, freeing you to focus on the creative and innovative aspects of development.
Looks amazing right?
So, this is all about converting your design in Figma to Flutter code using DhiWise Flutter Builder. It will only take a few steps to transform the Figma design into Flutter code.
Visit the official Flutter Builder page to stay updated with the latest features.
