I Embedded a Native Camera Preview in Flutter (And Learned Exactly Where MethodChannel Stops Being Enough) Seven years into mobile engineering, I wanted to answer a question I've seen a few times: when do you actually need PlatformView instead of MethodChannel? Most answers I've seen are either "PlatformView is for native UI" (true, but not useful) or skip straight to copy-pasteable boilerplate with none of the failure modes that actually teach you anything. Over the weekend, I built a sm...