Building a Flutter app with AI and InstantBackend

You can have an AI generate your Flutter app and use InstantBackend for auth and data—no custom backend, no Firebase required.

Setup

1. API key. Sign up and copy your API key. Store it in your Flutter config (e.g. .env with flutter_dotenv, or a config file). Never hardcode it.
2. Prompt. Use the Flutter prompt: it tells the AI to use only the InstantBackend REST API for login, signup, and CRUD.
3. Auth. POST https://api.instantbackend.dev/login with X-API-Key and {"username","password"}; store the JWT and send Authorization: Bearer <token> on later requests.
4. Data. POST /{collection} to create, GET /{collection}?limit=20 to list (response: items + nextToken), GET /{collection}/{id} for one item.

What the AI generates

Screens, navigation, and a small API client that reads the key from config and uses the JWT for authenticated calls. You run flutter run and set the API key in your environment or config.

Copy the Flutter prompt and check the API reference.