# What is a Project?

> This page is about FlutterFlow Studio (the visual builder), not FlutterFlow (the app builder you use by describing your app).

URL: https://docs.flutterflow.io/resources/projects

Understand what constitutes a project in FlutterFlow Studio and how to manage them effectively.

A **Project** in FlutterFlow Studio represents a complete Flutter application. It contains all the generated code for a Flutter app. This means that you can export your code and your app will run as a normal Flutter app without requiring FlutterFlow Studio.

A FlutterFlow Studio project includes all the files and packages generated by the `flutter create` command, along with additional packages specifically added to support common functionalities.  These include:

### UI and Styling

- [**auto_size_text**](https://pub.dev/packages/auto_size_text): Automatically resizes text to fit within its bounds.
- [**cached_network_image**](https://pub.dev/packages/cached_network_image): Provides a widget that displays images from the internet, caching them for performance.
- [**flutter_animate**](https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_animate): Facilitates adding animations to widgets.
- [**font_awesome_flutter**](https://pub.dev/packages/font_awesome_flutter): Offers a comprehensive set of icons provided by FontAwesome.
- [**from_css_color**](https://pub.dev/packages/from_css_color): Converts CSS color strings to Flutter color objects.
- [**google_fonts**](https://pub.dev/packages/google_fonts): Enables custom fonts to be used easily from the Google Fonts catalog.
- [**page_transition**](https://pub.dev/packages/page_transition): Adds customizable page transition effects.

### Navigation

- [**go_router**](https://pub.dev/packages/go_router): A declarative router based on URL patterns, simplifying navigation logic.

### Data Management and Storage

- [**collection**](https://pub.dev/packages/collection): Provides additional collection types and utilities.
- [**json_path**](https://pub.dev/packages/json_path): Allows querying JSON data structures with path expressions.
- [**provider**](https://pub.dev/packages/provider): A popular state management technique to propagate changes across the app.
- [**shared_preferences**](https://pub.dev/packages/shared_preferences): Facilitates persistent storage of simple data (key-value pairs).

### Platform Specific Integrations

- [**path_provider**](https://pub.dev/packages/path_provider): Locates commonly used locations on the filesystem.
- [**path_provider_android**](https://pub.dev/packages/path_provider_android), [**path_provider_foundation**](https://pub.dev/packages/path_provider_foundation), [**path_provider_platform_interface**](https://pub.dev/packages/path_provider_platform_interface): Platform-specific implementations and interface for `path_provider`.
- [**shared_preferences_android**](https://pub.dev/packages/shared_preferences_android), [**shared_preferences_foundation**](https://pub.dev/packages/shared_preferences_foundation), [**shared_preferences_platform_interface**](https://pub.dev/packages/shared_preferences_platform_interface), [**shared_preferences_web**](https://pub.dev/packages/shared_preferences_web): Platform-specific implementations for `shared_preferences`.
- [**url_launcher**](https://pub.dev/packages/url_launcher), [**url_launcher_android**](https://pub.dev/packages/url_launcher_android), [**url_launcher_ios**](https://pub.dev/packages/url_launcher_ios), [**url_launcher_platform_interface**](https://pub.dev/packages/url_launcher_platform_interface): Packages that enable launching URLs on various platforms, allowing the app to open web links, emails, and more.

### Utilities

- [**intl**](https://pub.dev/packages/intl): Provides internationalization and localization facilities, including message translation, plurals and genders, and date/number formatting.
- [**flutter_cache_manager**](https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_cache_manager): Manages cached files, supporting custom file retrieval strategies and cache rules.
- [**timeago**](https://pub.dev/packages/timeago): A library to format dates as a relative time (e.g., "5 minutes ago").

Any elements (e.g. pages, widgets), business logic or packages that are added to the project will be included in the generated code.

:::tip[Generated Code]
FlutterFlow Studio automatically generates a complete Flutter application for you. To dive deeper into the project structure of a Flutter app generated by FlutterFlow Studio, explore the [**Directory Structure**](https://docs.flutterflow.io/generated-code/project-structure) guide.
:::