Overview of Flutter
Flutter:
Well, today’s technology is rapidly advancing and companies demand to build their applications that are platform independent, i.e, those apps that can run on any operating system.
The current market is running on majority 2 platforms which are Android and iOS. And product based company aims to hire those individuals that can develop an app for both of these platforms.
With this consideration, Google came up with their own cross-platform app development language known as FLUTTER.
Flutter is basically a programming language whose output can be run on Android as well as iOS. Prior to flutter, many languages such as Viu,Xamarin and React Native etc. had been introduced in the market which is still in demand.
So what’s new with Flutter? Let’s check it out.
Base Language
The language used in Flutter is Dart programming language. Dart is developed by Google and is used for development of web server, mobile, and desktop applications. It is free and open source.
Application developed for both Android and iOS.
With Flutter, “Write once and run on Android and iOS” concept is used. You need to program in Dart language and those applications can be run on Android as well as iOS.
This reduces development time and resources.
User Interface
As per my experience, Flutter seemed to a bunch of new interfaces which are interactive and gives a better feel to the user’s contact.
The designs are too good that gives an attractive look to the mobile apps and improves the user experience.
The animations and widgets are well setups for developers to easily integrate into the application.
Native Experience
Flutter has features that users won’t notice any difference whether the app is being developed using their native language or cross-platform language.
An example for Android users is that they won’t be able to judge whether the respective app is developed using Android Studio or Flutter.
Rapid Development
Flutter is equipped with one best feature of Hot Reload.
Hot Reload means the output is given as soon as there are code changes. Means if you edit some text and click on the Run button, its output will be shown dynamically on the Emulator screen.
While working with React Native, I had to stop the app server, make changes and then restart the server to see the output which was time-consuming.
Due to Hot Reload feature of Flutter, debugging is also made easier and application development consumes less time.
Here is a demo which is originally published on its official website https://flutter.io/
After knowing these amazing features, if you want to get started with Flutter development, then follow their official document.
If you are interested in learning Flutter with a free course, I’ll recommend Udacity’s course on Flutter which is co-created by Google itself.
Here is the Udacity’s free course on Flutter.
Flutter is recently released and that is why the community support is moderate but with the recent release of Flutter 1.0, this platform has become stable now and the support can be increased.
Google always aim to bring the best for the users and will continue the work on Flutter beyond excellence.
This was just an overview of Flutter. To know more in details you can check out their official website https://flutter.io/