There's no reason to bother with websocket stuff, you can just call out to native code via platform channels ( https://flutter.dev/docs/development/platform-int

There's no reason to bother with websocket stuff, you can just call out to native code via platform channels ( https://flutter.dev/docs/development/platform-integration/platform-channels https://flutter.dev/docs/development/platform-integration/pl... ) Just that once you do that you're no longer a portable cross-platform app, and there's limits to what you can do with that pipe in terms of data marshaling and the overhead from that.