What is Flutter...??

Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit for building natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. It works on the Dart programming language and is famous for developing fast, expressive and flexible UIs and high performance output.

📅 Mon Nov 04 20242 min
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Key Features of Flutter

a) Single Code Base: Write one codebase and deploy it across iOS, Android, web and desktop saving time and efforts.
b) Hot Reload: The differences made are reflected in the app and take the whole development process up by an extent.
c) Customizable widgets: Flutter has a variety of pre-designed widgets within a rich list and forms a good quality UI. This is superb in the consistency of the app being created across platforms
d) High performing: Flutter directly compiles to native ARM or Intel machine code, bringing up great performance similar to apps.
e) Access native features: the plugins provide access to platform-specific features such as camera and GPS, through packages on pub.dev

How Flutter Works

Flutter apps are developed using Dart, and the toolkit provides an adequate set of Material and Cupertino widgets that can be used closely to mimic the feel of Android and iOS, respectively. The UI of the app is drawn by the graphics engine of Flutter, called Skia, which enables rendering the UI in a consistent manner across platforms.

Use Cases

Flutter is good for the following:
Mobile apps (iOS and Android)
Web apps
Desktop apps (Windows, macOS, Linux)
With its versatility and strength, Flutter attracts companies like Google, Alibaba, eBay, and hundreds more. It is largely popular among startups and cross-platform projects where time to market is a critical determinant.