How to Make API Calls in Flutterflow

Knowing how to make API calls in your Flutterflow application allows you to make much more complex applications and user experiences.

Connecting to an API from within Flutterflow is not too difficult. In this video we walk through the process using the OpenAi image generation API.

We will create a simple user interface to send the prompt and display the resulting image and make the API call to OpenAi using the inbuilt Flutterflow API features.

If you are looking for other methods of connecting to an API, I have created a series of videos using the pg_http extension in Supabase to connect to your API from the back end. Here are the videos:

The OpenAI API:    • How to connect to the OpenAI API from...  
Sending SMS messages:    • How to send SMS messages from Supabase  
Sedning emails:    • How to send emails from Supabase with...