Universal Windows Programs (UWP) are apps that can run on all Microsoft devices, from the Windows laptop you might be reading this article on, to the Xbox in your living room and even the Hololens (which probably no one has).

Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for  mobile,  web, desktop, and  embedded devices from a single codebase. Flutter has had support for creating legacy Win32 programs since September 2020, but in Google I/O 2021, this Windows support has finally expanded to UWP!

In this article, I will show you how to set up Flutter and create your first UWP. For this guide, you will have to use a Windows 10 computer. All links are the latest at the time of writing.

Step 1: Set up the Flutter SDK

1. Download the latest Flutter SDK from this link.
2. Unzip the “flutter” folder from the zip file you have downloaded earlier to your desired installation location. Do not put the folder in folders that require elevated privileges, such as “C:\Program Files”.
3. From the Start search bar, enter ‘env’ and select Edit the system environment variables.

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