Flutter to build iOS & Android Apps - Flutter is Google’s portable UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively-compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase…
Flutter is developed by Google and its first preview 1 released 2017 and get large user attention across the world.### What is Flutter ?
**Flutter **is an open-source, multi-platform mobile SDK which can be used to build iOS and Android apps with the same source code. What separates it from other cross platform frameworks like React Native and Xamarin is that is does not use the native widgets, nor does it use WebViews.
Instead, Flutter has its own rendering engine written in C/C++, while the Dart code that is used to actually write Flutter apps can be compiled into native code on each platform.
1. One Code for 2 Platforms
Developers write just one codebase for your 2 apps, covering both Android and iOS platforms. Flutter doesn’t depend on the platform, because it has its own widgets and designs. This means that you have the same app on two platforms.
2. Development Time
Flutter means faster & more dynamic mobile app development. We can make changes in the code and see them straight away in the app! This is the so-called Hot reload, which usually only takes (milli)seconds and helps teams add features, fix bugs and experiment faster.
3. Beautiful User Interface
Flutter is designed to make it easy to create your own widgets or customize the existing widgets. Your new app will look the same, even on old versions of Android and iOS systems. There are no additional costs for supporting older devices. Flutter runs on Android Jelly Bean or newer, as well as iOS 8 or newer.
4. Performance
Flutter is concerned, you get everything customised right of your choice. Developers can use the same existing code to develop applications. Importantly, Flutter is helpful in this context as it is backed by the Powerful C++ engine.
5. Documentation & Tools
The flutter.dev site is well designed and it was easy to get started. The Flutter plugin was easy to install and worked as advertised. After following the simple tutorial, I had my first Flutter native application running on an iOS simulator and the Android emulator quickly enough. The experience was good enough to think this might be worth really pursuing.
6. Technical architecture
Although Flutter and Android are being developed at Google, the technical architecture of both platforms is completely different. Flutter uses Dart as the programming language, while native Android development uses Java or Kotlin.
Architectural overview: platform channels
Flutter uses the Dart framework and often does not require the bridge to communicate with the native modules. The architecture of the Flutter engine is explained in detail. (click here)
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lutter is aimed at mobile app developers of any level. And current Flutter version can boast about the following advantages:
React Native vs Flutter
Developers keep discussing the trending technology and React Native vs Flutter.
Both React native and Flutter holds some exceptional quality in respective fields. But, while going through the topic, one can say that React Native is a bit friendly than Flutter.
At the same time, there has been plenty of new technologies which help both users and service providers to optimize services, based on the user demands.
The reason, Flutter is extremely new and still going through under development process. Therefore, it will be immature to get a final conclusion that React Native will remain the best forever. It may be changed.
Conclusion
The thing that I’ve found positively surprising is that we have communicated that developing applications in Flutter is much faster than native.> Flutter is a unique take on these tools because it doesn’t require using platform native widgets or WebViews. One of the main drawbacks of adopting Flutter right now is the lack of third party support for features. However, Flutter is still a promising tool for writing great looking cross platform apps without having to sacrifice performance.
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