Google announced Flutter back in 2015 as a cross-platform UI that allows developers to use a single codebase to build UIs for native Android and iOS apps, web apps, and desktop.

Today, the Flutter team is launching Flutter for Windows Alpha which can build standard .exe files — and the supporting libraries — to be run on PCs as far back as Windows 7, all the way through Windows 10. More importantly, just like Flutter’s other platforms, you can use the exact same Dart code for your Android/iOS app as you do for Windows and every other desktop platform.

“This alpha release offers a solid foundation that we’ll stabilize over the coming months. With support for Windows 7 and above, we hope this gives adventurous developers something to get started with,” wrote Flutter team in its blog post.

To show off the potential of Flutter on Windows, Google has included a showcase of open source example apps including Flokk — a Google Contacts managing app — and a revamped Flutter Gallery built with desktop in mind.

Looking ahead the team has plans to complete the feature set and stabilize the product for release, with remaining work to complete including accessibility, globalization and localization, enhanced keyboard and text handling, support for command line arguments, and more.

The team also plans to include support for Microsoft’s newer UWP platform used by Windows 10 as well as Xbox One. In fact, an experimental UWP based version of Flutter Gallery is available on the Windows Store now, complete with support for Xbox One.

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