Flutter developers know the drill: You receive a beautiful Figma design, complete with perfect padding and custom widgets. Then comes the fun part—translating those pixel-perfect designs into Flutter's widget tree, wrestling with container nesting, managing state, and ensuring everything stays responsive across different screen sizes. Oh yeah—loads of fun.
But what if we could automate this step in mobile app development? Using AI, Builder’s Visual Copilot plugin enables developers to transform Figma designs directly into production-ready Flutter code - with proper widget hierarchy, responsive layouts, and clean architecture - all in a few clicks.
In this blog post, we’ll explore how converting Figma to Flutter using our AI tool can save hours of manual work, retain design fidelity across different devices, and streamline application development for Flutter developers.
At Builder.io, we've created a Figma community plugin called Visual Copilot. It's an AI-powered tool that transforms your Figma designs into clean, maintainable Flutter widgets and Dart code. Say goodbye to hours of manual widget tree construction and hello to spending more time on what matters: building great features for your users.
Visual Copilot converts your Figma design into Flutter widgets and clean UI code. This accelerates the development cycle dramatically, bridging the gap between design and code in just a few clicks.
Ensuring consistency between your Flutter UI components and your original design in Figma has never been easier or faster.
Your Flutter app needs to look good on phones, tablets, and everything in between. Instead of manually tweaking each widget's size and position for different screens, Visual Copilot handles all that boring work for you. No more fiddling with MediaQuery or LayoutBuilder - just export your Figma design to Flutter and watch your responsive design adapt smoothly to any screen size.
Visual Copilot speaks multiple languages. While it's a powerhouse for building Flutter mobile applications that work across multiple platforms, it also works with most other popular frontend and mobile frameworks, such as Swift UI, React Native, React, Vue, and Angular. The same goes for popular styling libraries like Tailwind CSS and Emotion.
So whether you're building a native mobile experience with Flutter or building a matching web interface with, say, React, you can use the same design and the same tool. Retain perfect design fidelity with no context-switching required.
Once Visual Copilot works its magic, you get clean, readable Flutter widgets and Dart code that you can tweak to your heart's content. Need to wire up state management or an API integration? Planning to add your team's custom widget library or reusable components? No problem.
With such fast feedback loops, Visual Copilot excels as a prototyping tool too. Try implementing unique features or new design changes faster than ever before.
The Visual Copilot plugin now includes a powerful CLI workflow (currently in beta). You can use it to export Figma to Flutter directly into your project through your favorite code editor. One command handles everything automatically —downloading your design, converting it to code, and inserting it into your codebase.
For developers who love working from the terminal, especially those using modern AI-enhanced editors like Cursor and Windsurf, turning Figma designs into code can become a seamless part of your development process.
Visual Copilot uses a three-step process to turn designs into generated code. First, our in-house AI analyzes your Figma design file and understands its structure (even without auto-layout). Then, a specialized compiler called Mitosis transforms this into framework-specific code. Finally, our fine-tuned LLM polishes the output to match your team's coding style and patterns.
Unlike other AI tools and Figma community plugins that just spit out standalone components, Visual Copilot understands your entire product ecosystem:
- Your design context: It speaks Figma fluently - from components and tokens to your design system documentation
- Your code context: The generated code follows your developer's patterns, standards, and component architecture
- Your business context: It knows how to work with your APIs, data structures, and business rules
This means you can describe what you need in plain English and get back exactly what your team would build—complete with your styling and conventions and ready to plug into your services.
Getting started with Visual Copilot is straightforward:
- Open the Visual Copilot plugin in Figma
- Select the design elements you want to convert
- Click "Export Design"
- Copy the generated command to your terminal
- Follow the prompts to customize your code, and watch as the plugin automatically adds it to your project
With the ability to handle everything from simple screens to complex app layouts, Visual Copilot helps maintain a consistent look and feel across your entire Flutter application.
In this video, we export a Figma design for a feature-rich card into a fully responsive Flutter layout with a seamless user experience—all in about 90 seconds.
In just a few clicks, the plugin converts your Figma file into clean Flutter widgets, lets you customize the generated Dart code, and delivers a pixel-perfect match to your design across all screen sizes.
Visual Copilot accelerates the conversion process from Figma designs into production-ready Flutter code (though it works with other frameworks too). It bridges the gap between your design team's Figma files and your Flutter codebase, turning pixel-perfect mockups into responsive widget trees without the usual back-and-forth.
You can quickly export your Figma designs into a single codebase of Flutter widgets and Dart code, ready to be integrated into your mobile app or web project. Finally, there's a tool that enables designers to do their best work while letting developers build natively compiled applications faster than ever.
Check out our docs to learn more about Visual Copilot's Flutter capabilities and how to integrate it into your development workflow.
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Introducing Visual Copilot: convert Figma designs to high quality code in a single click.
