This blog will give an insight on “flutter” a cross-application development framework. We need to discuss some enormous benefits & key features bring by flutter during the application development process.
First of all, what is flutter?
Flutter is Google’s mobile app SDK, complete with a framework, widgets, and tools, that give developers an easy way to build and deploy visually attractive, fast mobile apps on both Android and iOS platforms.
Flutter importance during development.
With the help of flutter developer able to develop a cross-platform application, they don’t need to create different android and iOS app, for both platform developer has to code ones.
Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit that’s why its usability increases day by day.
It is used to develop applications for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Windows, Google Fuchsia, and the web from a single codebase
The major components of Flutter include:
Dart platform: flutter written in dart language that’s why it’s allowed to access advanced features of many of the language.
On Windows, macOS, and Linux [11] Flutter runs in the Dart virtual machine, which features a just-in-time execution engine.
Release versions of Flutter apps are compiled with ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation on both Android and iOS,[13] making Flutter’s high performance on mobile devices possible.
Flutter engine: The Flutter Engine is a portable runtime for hosting Flutter applications. It implements Flutter’s core libraries, including animation and graphics, file and network I/O, accessibility support, plugin architecture, and a Dart runtime and compiles toolchain. Most developers interact with Flutter via the Flutter Framework, which provides a reactive framework and a set of platform, layout, and foundation widgets.
Foundation library:
The Foundation library, written in Dart, provides basic classes and functions that are used to construct applications using Flutter, such as APIs to communicate with the engine
Design-specific widgets:
The Flutter framework contains two sets of widgets that conform to specific design languages: Material Design widgets implement Google’s design language of the same name, and Cupertino widgets implement Apple’s iOS
Some key benefits of flutters:
One codebase for 2 platforms:
The developer needs to code once to implement both iOS/Android applications, flutter is independent on the design part because it’s having its own widget and design.
Less testing times:
to automate test on the single app of both platforms required fewer timings because the QA team need to write one script for both. also, performing manual testing process is faster because both apps of 2 platform have similar UI
High-speed app:
Flutter’s widgets incorporate all critical platform differences such as scrolling, navigation, icons, and fonts, and your Flutter code is compiled to native ARM machine code using Dart’s native compilers. That will application performance
Ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation on both Android and iOS, making Flutter’s high performance on mobile devices possible.
The developer is also able to make high-speed flutter apps with good development practices during app development. They can find it on flutters official website.
Full fill design expectation:
As flutter having its own widget it will allow the developer to create a new widget or customize existing widgets. So, with the help of this developer will fulfill the design expectation.
Quickly ship features with a focus on native end-user experiences. The layered architecture allows for full customization, which results in incredibly fast rendering and expressive and flexible designs
Faster coding:
Flutter’s “hot reload” feature, in turn, allows seeing the applied changes almost instantly, without even losing the current application state. And this is exactly what makes Flutter app development several times faster due to the increased development speed.
Also, one code base for 2 platforms required less time 2 create both apps.
Use a rich set of fully customizable widgets to build native interfaces in minutes.
This feature of flutter makes it more important in application development. And also, a best UI design framework & SDK to develop an application.
