What is plugin in Flutter?

A plugin is a feature specific component added to a program such as an IDE (in this case Android Studio). A plugin is usually designed to augment for some specific features that a program did not originally come with. This helps in increasing the developers efficiency.

Flutter provides a mechanism for authoring plugins that allows you to communicate with platform-specific code and also allows you to publish your plugins on pub. dev so that others can use them . In this codelab, you’ll learn how to author your own plugins for iOS and Android.

Flutter is a new way to build UIs for mobile , but it has a plugin system to communicate with Android (and iOS) for non-UI tasks. If you’re an expert with Android, you don’t have to relearn everything to use Flutter.