Why go with Flutter for your next app development?

Flutter is a mobile app developing framework which has been created by Google. In this article, you’ll have a clear idea on Flutter, its advantages and disadvantages.

Google’s Flutter portable UI toolkit for cross platform development has become the best choice for many developers across the globe.

Flutter provides an easy cross-platform mobile app development. It is used by developers worldwide in order to build high fidelity, beautiful and natively compiled applications for mobile, web and desktop.

Flutter is an SDK like Android SDK, and not a language. An SDK (Software Development Kit) contains every documentation, library, tool, etc. Dart is the official programming language used with Flutter which is quiet is for a person who is familiar with OOP.

Flutter is a great way to build attractive, high performing and outstanding mobile apps that will meet your custom needs and requirements. It is recommended to consider Flutter, if you are looking for an app for both Android and iOS.

The main components of the Flutter framework are,

What makes Flutter so cool?

Hot reloads in Flutter will help you to build user interfaces and experiment quickly. Adding features and fixing bugs will also be faster.

The built-in attractive material design and Cupertino (iOS flavor) widgets, rich motion APIs and the smooth natural scrolling will delight the users.

Critical platform differences like navigation, scrolling, icons and fonts are incorporated by Flutter’s widgets. It will give full native performance on Android and iOS.

From the developers’ perspective, the most important benefits of using Flutter is, Flutter will speed up the mobile application development process. Flutter apps are smooth as well as faster.

It is more dynamic. Therefore, adding features, doing experiments and fixing bugs can be done super faster.

There is no need to develop separate apps for Android and iOS. Instead one codebase is enough for the two platforms. Flutter does not depend on the platform.

Quality assurance process is really faster and there is less testing because of the single code base.

It costs less for the production of the app. It saves your money as well as time.

Ultimately, you’ll be able to build a fascinating app UI with smooth animations.

In Flutter, you’ll find that all the things are widgets even the app. It is easier to create your own widgets and customize default widgets. Users will love those beautiful designs

Flutter runs on Android Jelly Bean version upwards and iOS 8 version upwards.

Google has announced the availability of Flutter version 1.5 which is the new stable build version.

Where not to use Flutter?

If you are wondering whether Flutter is a good idea for all kinds of mobile app development, here’s the answer. There are some cases which Flutter would not be the optimal solution.

For apps that require rare or less known native libraries which are not in Flutter repository, using Flutter is bit complicated. The custom platform channels should be developed separately for Android and iOS.

Originally published at https://dinithidias.blogspot.com/2019/05/why-go-with-flutter-for-your-next-app.html

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