Figma to Flutter Code Hands-on: A Step-by-Step Guide to Convert Your Figma Design to Flutter Code With DhiWise
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.
What is Figma?
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.
What is Flutter?
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.
Convert Figma to Flutter code in minutes with DhiWise Flutter Builder
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 generate Flutter code:
Step 1: Sign up on DhiWise
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.
Step 2: Create a new application in DhiWise
Once the account is created, you will be directed to the Dashboard where you can search and view the created applications.
To create a new application, click New application, and select Create a new app from the drop-down.
This will open a Create a new app pop-up window where you need to provide the Application name, Technology, Design platform, 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 paste the Figma file link for the Figma URL.
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Note: For now, DhiWise only supports Figma designs. For the designs in Adobe XD, and Sketch you need to put in a request to migrate them, and DhiWise shall be providing the Figma file for the same within 24 to 48 hours.
Once you fill in all the details for your app click Create a new app.? A new pop-up window will appear where you can select the app screens/pages using which you want to create an app from the Figma URL you provided.
Select the screens/pages you want to import and click Submit.
And boom!
DhiWise will start fetching all the design resources from the Figma design file, as shown below.
Step 3: Set up configuration or move to the screen list
While DhiWise is fetching data it allows developers to set up some configurations or move to the next step, to save their time, which they can also do later from Setting.
After the data is being fetched, the platform will confirm if you are setting up the configurations. Click Wait and set up config will take you back to the fetch data screen.
In the App setting, you can edit the package name, bundle id and app icon of your app.
On Next, 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.
Moreover, the platform comes with GitHub and 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.
Now let's move to the screen list from here.
DhiWise Flutter Builder auto-identifies widgets, custom widgets, and auto-setup actions and validations from your provided design file.
Step 4: Set up the splash screen
Easily set the initial screen of the application and the screen to be opened after the splash screen. Read More....