In general, developing a mobile application is a complex and challenging task. Many Frameworks are developed by different companies to develop a mobile application. But the problem here is we can’t use a single framework to develop mobile app for both operating systems (Android, IOS). To help overcome this complexity, some Tech Companies launch mobile frameworks like (React Native / Xamarin) that support both OS. Irrespective of their simplicity or complexity, these frameworks always have many disadvantages, one of the main drawbacks being their slow performance.
Mobile users always expect their apps to have beautiful designs, smooth animations, and amazing performance. To deliver on this, developers need to create new features quicker than ever without compromising on quality or performance. That’s why Flutter is built by Google. Flutter is Google’s mobile UI framework that provides a fast and expressive way for mobile developers to build native apps on both iOS and Android.
Flutter is a simple and high-performance framework based on Dart language, provides high performance by rendering the UI directly in the operating system’s canvas rather than through native framework. This is because apps and interfaces made with Flutter are built from a single codebase, compiled directly to native arm code, use the GPU, and can access platform APIs and services.
Here are ways that Flutter will help you on day one.
- Flutter engineered for high developer velocity. Stateful hot reload allows you to change your code and see it come to life in less than a second, without losing the state of the app. Flutter also ships with a rich set of customizable widgets, all built from our modern reactive framework.
- Flutter integrates with popular development tools, which means you can get started quickly with the editor or IDE you already know and love. Flutter moves the widgets, rendering, animation, and gestures into the framework, to give you complete control over every pixel on the screen. This means you have flexibility to build custom designs.
- Flutter apps follow platform conventions and interface details, such as scrolling, navigation, icons, fonts, and more. This is why apps built with Flutter are featured on both the App Store and Google Play Store. Flutter is great for developers, both new and experienced in mobile. If you’re new to mobile, Flutter gives you a fast, fun, and modern way to deliver native apps. If you’re an experienced mobile developer, you can add Flutter to your existing workflows and tools to build new expressive UIs.
- Flutter is free and open source, and used by developers and organizations around the world, including enterprise, agencies, and startups.
In my opinion Flutter is a great technology for fast mobile app deployment because it includes multiple functionality for developing beautiful interfaces and built-in library support. So, you don’t have to design from scratch. But still it’s a new and growing technology. Google is investing so much for flutter and there is a huge community out there for flutter developers. Almost every month Google provides new features and updates for flutter. Also google is providing multiple free resources to learn Flutter and the they are constantly updating them. It shouldn’t be wrong to say that the Flutter is the next big thing in mobile development industry.
–Muhammad Awais
