Building a rendering engine in Rust for Flutter

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A single Rust rendering engine embeds into Flutter on Android, iOS and web, providing a native GL surface hosted via PlatformView and controlled from Dart with MethodChannel and JNI/static linking as appropriate. Rendering code uses Notan with egui to draw frames at 60 fps (with 24–30 fps as fallbacks), rust functions exported with no_mangle, and bidirectional streaming via flutter_rust_bridge; demo shows an interactive DVD‑screensaver example and full build scripts in the repo.

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1. 0:00Invido and Rust rendering
2. 3:53Why Rust for rendering
3. 7:22Platform views in Flutter
4. 10:11OpenGL context access
5. 11:58Rendering loop explained
6. 15:10Rust in engine architecture
7. 20:45Flutter-Rust communication
8. 25:46Flutter Rust Bridge
9. 27:52Demo of Rust engine
10. 31:01Q&A

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