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Flutter has revolutionised both cross-platform and native app development in more ways than one. It is a robust technology covering the needs of iOS, Android, desktop and the web, allowing users to use the same codebase. For any Android app development company, Flutter offers a flexible choice to build a native app with the framework while keeping options open to extend its presence to other platforms with the same codebase.
Flutter is popular among developers for a number of reasons, and its popularity has already surpassed other frameworks and technologies. Are you curious about the rise of Flutter in such a short time as a trendsetter technology? Here are the reasons that explain Flutter’s popularity in full glare.
What is Flutter, and how does it work?
Flutter is a UI development kit that can be used to build apps with a native look and feel without depending on the platform-specific native components. Flutter does everything with UI widgets and allows reusing the same code for web, desktop, iOS and Android platforms.
Whether you an iOS or Android app development company, Flutter will definitely go deeper into your consideration for the tech stack of an app project. Here are some facts about Flutter.
- Thanks to its integrated Backend support with Firebase plugins, Flutter can work as a complete technology stack.
- Unlike other cross-platform technologies, Flutter doesn’t use JavaScript, and it uses a less known but high-performance focused and low-footprint language called Dart.
- Unlike other cross-platform frameworks, Flutter doesn’t need to use native UI components; instead, it uses platform-specific UI widgets from its own widget repository.
- Flutter widgets are independent of the device manufacturers and are built to cater to different platform-specific UI needs.
- Flutter 3.0 further extended all these value propositions and allows developers to use Google Firebase plugins for backend tasks.
If you are already intrigued by Flutter app development and its value offerings, here below, we offer some reasons for developers to choose Flutter more than any other technology.
Modularity with UI Widgets
Whether the app project belongs to an iOS or Android app development company or is a cross-platform app project, Flutter offers you every UI element required to shape the native look and feel with ease.
You have Flutter widgets for a variety of UI design requirements adhering to design principles of different natures like Android Material Design, Apple iOS Cupertino to Foundation.
Great for MVP app projects
It is well known that a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) offering an incremental development approach gives developers a lot of freedom while starting with the basic app with key features. This is where Flutter’s modularity just makes the right accompaniment on the technology front.
The Flutter UI widgets will help you add new features and use custom UI components through subsequent updates. This will initially take a load of cost and development time while keeping options open for future value additions.
Real-time code evaluation with Hot Reload
Hot Reload is a key feature of the Flutter framework that ensures real-time evaluation of the code changes without needing to reload or refresh the app repeatedly following every small code change.
This saves a lot of time because developers no longer need to run the app multiple times following every instance of code change. The same feature helps the QA team evaluate the app faster and make it ready for release often before time.
Business Logic Components (BLoC)
Flutter uses reactive programming, ensuring the segregation of the user interface from the business logic. This separate handling of business logic and UI components is commonly referred to as the BLoC (Business Logic Components) architecture.
This architecture and coding pattern of Flutter is extremely helpful in streamlining the development process with business decisions running simultaneously besides the UI design patterns. This ultimately speeds up the development process and ensures modularity even in handling business logic.
DartPub offers rich libraries and ready-to-use components.
The Dart programming language used by Flutter offers a rich repository of ready-to-use packages and UI libraries, and this repository is called the DartPub package manager. This package manager speeds up development while allowing modular customisation as per app project needs.
DartPub also helps developers check a plugin’s maintenance history, its version updates over time, and the code quality. Ultimately, this helps ensure clean and concise code for app projects while maintaining functional modularity.
Skia graphic engine for robust UI design
Whether for web, desktop, iOS or Android platforms, all app projects, irrespective of target platforms, need to ensure a seamless user interface with an attention-grabbing appeal. Here, Flutter makes things easier with its Skia graphic engine.
Skia, acclaimed worldwide for its graphic capabilities for the web and other interfaces, does a splendid job when powered by the UI widget repository of Flutter. If UI widgets of Flutter provide the backbone of an app interface, Skia takes it to the advanced level.
Google Firebase backend support
As we have briefly mentioned earlier, Flutter is frequently regarded by some developers as a full-stack framework simply because of its integrated Firebase backend support.
While the rich UI widgets take care of the frontend development, the integrated Firebase plugin allows Flutter developers to take care of the server-side configuration and API handling.
Flutter 3.0: Extending the value propositions
Finally, Flutter 3.0 offered some excellent extensions and value additions that made the framework even more lucrative and irreplaceable for app projects. Here is how Flutter 3.0 adds to the value propositions that we already explained.
- Flutter 3.0 extended its desktop support, especially for macOS and Linux, and developed a rich widget repository for all desktop platforms.
- There are ready-to-access Firebase plugins now for Flutter developers.
- Flutter 3.0 also offers a Casual Games Toolkit for game developers to use the framework for game app projects.
- Flutter 3.0 integrates with the latest version of Google’s design language, Material Design 3.
Summing It Up
Did we cover everything for which Flutter is loved so much by app developers worldwide? While we cannot guarantee it to be exhaustive, the above reasons give a proper presentation of the power, efficiency and robustness of the Flutter framework.
