What is flutter?
Flutter is a reactive cross-platform mobile development framework that uses the Dart language. Dart and Flutter have been created by Google who’s using the framework for some of its biggest applications and is constantly pushing the framework towards being the ultimate solution for creating cross-platform apps. Its initial alpha release was back in May 2017 so it’s much younger than React Native. The technology keeps up with the latest developments and is used by developers around the world. Most importantly, it is open-source and completely free.
Its first version Sky, designed only for Android, was introduced in 2015 at the Dart Developer Summit. On December 4, 2018, the first stable version 1.0 was officially presented at the Flutter Live event. Since then, Flutter has managed to overtake React Native in popularity both on GitHub and Stack Overflow.
In terms of popularity, Flutter is making good progress. While Flutter had made it to the top 100 software repos based on GitHub stars by the time release preview 1 was announced in June 2018, it has risen in the ranks and is now among the top 30. Two years later Flutter SDK ranks as top 10 software repo on Github, following giants like Linux, vue and vscode. This, without a doubt, is a promising trend. Thousands of Flutter apps have made its way to app stores, among these the Alibaba app with 50 million users.
We think that this success is well-deserved. In this article, we are going to discuss what the benefits of Flutter in app development are.
Benefits of flutter
Without making any comparisons with other platforms, here’s a list of some of the features and qualities that may make you consider having a go at Flutter: - High Productivity : Since Flutter is cross-platform, your iOS and Android apps will use the same code base. This will surely save time and money for you both.
- Low-cost app development : Flutter's benefit is not only that it generates one program instead of two. With this framework, when adapting the app to each of the platforms, you will also have less issues. Most frameworks can cope, but that’s only if to consider them in the context of simple applications. The real problems begin when an application becomes “overgrown” with functions and inevitably gets complicated (it is about most products during the development stage).
- Compatibilty : Since widgets are part of the software and not the platform, on various OS versions, you will likely encounter less or no compatibility issues. This means less time spent on research.
Customizable kit of widgets :Widgets are the basic blocks used to build a user interface of a Flutter application. Its layering makes it easy to create applications of any complexity. You can use ready-made widgets from Material-UI or implement specific components based on basic widgets. With Flutter, it is also possible to flexibly work with animation and gesture processing. Thus, you can combine rapid work with high-level widgets and still have the ability to add/redefine deeper layers.
Open-source: Both Flutter and Dart are open-source and free to use, and provide extensive documentation and community support to help out with any issues you may encounter.
Code - Reusability: The reusability of Flutter's code is up to 80%. One widget tree can be defined by developers and the given logic reused. Actually, mass differentiation is not necessary. Xamarin enables developers to reuse up to 96 percent of their C# code, making it better in terms of code reusability than Flutter.
Examples of app made with flutter
Flutter is widely used to create applications for Alibaba, Yandex, Airbnb, Uber, and other large companies.
Here are some examples of great apps developed with Flutter:
- Beer me up (Tracking beer consumption)
- Pairing- Set up your friends
- Watermaniac (Health and fitness)
- Birch Finance (Finance app for managing credit cards)
Our Conclusion
Flutter is designed to build high-performance applications in record time, helping developers to avoid so many issues that it is hard to list all of them here. You need to try it in operation to fully understand this software development kit.
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