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Technical articles on embedded UI frameworks, platform engineering and production optimisation — drawn from work Crossware has actually delivered, including pieces published with our silicon and platform partners.
Flutter on Torizon — a proof of concept on i.MX 8M Plus.
Is Flutter a viable choice for embedded systems?
As a Toradex partner, Crossware invested in a proof of concept to answer that question with measurements rather than opinion — running Flutter on a Verdin i.MX 8M Plus inside a Torizon container.
Two Flutter embedders were implemented and compared on the same target hardware. Both performed comparably in practice, but one proved substantially simpler to bring up, which decided the direction of the rest of the work. The demonstrator itself was an internet radio application using GStreamer for audio playback, packaged as a container for the board.
The article walks through the Flutter architecture, building the application bundle, and every step of containerising it onto Torizon — with sources linked so the setup can be reproduced.
Read the article on Toradex →More articles in progress.
| Article | Topic | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Memory optimisation for Qt for MCUs | Qt for MCUs | Read → |
| Layer composition on microcontrollers | MCU graphics | Read → |
| MCU graphics subsystems, side by side | Platform comparison | Read → |
| Rendering optimisation on NXP RT1176 | Performance | In development |
| Choosing between Qt and Qt for MCUs | Framework selection | In development |
| Building modern digital cockpits | Automotive HMI | In development |
| Integrating camera streams | Multimedia | In development |
| WebRTC on embedded Linux | Connectivity | In development |