Before jumping on whether the Flutter is good choice or not, and how it is different from other mobile app platforms, let’s first learn what’s the Flutter?
Mobile users expect to have beautiful designs, smoother animations, and great performance. To fulfill this, developers needs to create new features faster than ever without compromising quality and performance of the mobile app. To meet this, Flutter came into existence.
Flutter is Google’s mobile UI framework to provide fast and expressive way for developers to develop native Apps for iOS and Android from the single code base. Flutter uses the Google’s own programming language called Dart which is a powerful language to build the apps.
Let’s check why one should use Flutter to achieve their business requirement.
Why Flutter?
1. Hot Reload feature
It is one of the best and unique features to speed up the development. Flutter has this amazing feature that allows you to view the changes made in code instantly without running the app over and over again.
It works by injecting the updated source code files into the running Dart Virtual Machine (VM). After the VM updates the classes with new versions of functions and fields, the Flutter automatically rebuild the widget tree and allow you to quickly see the effects of changes you made.
2. Built-in kits of Widgets
Flutter has rich and customizable set of widgets for iOS, Android and Material design. The combination of various widgets will enable you to create a complex UI that looks the same on different OS. These widgets help building highly interactive and beautiful app.
3. Built-in animation library
The well designed animations enables the apps have Intuitive UI, better User Experience, slick and polished look. These animations come with standard effects and it is also possible to customize these effects.
4. Single Codebase
The Flutter is cross platform framework allows building the natively compiled apps for mobile, web and desktop from a single codebase. This saves the lot of time in building native apps where there is need to code separately for Android, iOS and Web backend.
5. High performance
Flutter does not use the WebView or OEM widgets that shipped with the device. Instead, Flutter uses its own high performance engine to render the widgets.
Additionally, a Flutter only has a thin layer of C/C++ code, and uses a Dart programming language which is modern and concise, and allows developers to easily approach read, replace, remove or change.
Summing up, Flutter seems a competitive technology option for the development of mobile apps. However at this stage, the community of Flutter is not that big like other platforms such as React Native and Native platforms so if you are planning to develop app, you may need someone that has excellent knowledge and does not depend on community when there is any road block.
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