I Built a Flutter AI Chatbot with Claude Code in 10 Minutes - No Code Experience Required
I built a fully working multimodal AI chatbot in Flutter — and I didn't type a single line of code. Claude Code wrote everything. The secret isn't the prompt, it's how I set up CLAUDE.md, SPEC.md, and Plan Mode before the build.
In this 10-minute Flutter tutorial I'll walk you through the exact vibe coding workflow I use to ship real apps — including Giftlo, my AI gift finder live on the App Store and Google Play. By the end you'll have a Flutter AI chatbot that handles text AND images: snap a photo of a meal for calories, a math problem for step-by-step help, a plant for identification, or foreign text for translation.
⭐ What you'll learn
✅ The 3 setup files that turn Claude Code from a coding assistant into a senior engineer
✅ Plan Mode — how to catch mistakes BEFORE Claude writes any code (Shift+Tab×2)
✅ Auto-format hooks that run on every Dart file edit
✅ Wiring up the free Gemini API to a Flutter chat UI with image attachments
✅ The right way to handle your API key on the client — and how to move it to a server when you ship
✅ Compound engineering — turning every session into a smarter CLAUDE.md
🛠️ Tools used
Claude Code (npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code) — Pro plan from $20/mo
Flutter 3.x — free
Gemini 2.5 Flash API — free tier, no credit card needed
flutter_dotenv for clean API key handling
Flutter Installation: • Install Flutter on Windows in 2026 | Setup...
Claude Code Setup: • Installing Claude Code
Source Code & MD Files: https://github.com/swkhan-dev/ai-visi...
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