Flutter : Why to use Flutter for Cross Platform Mobile App Development

What is Flutter?

Flutter is Google’s mobile app SDK, complete with a framework, widgets, and tools, that gives developers an easy way to build and deploy visually attractive, fast mobile apps on both Android and iOS platforms (official Flutter website).

Flutter enables a smooth and easy cross-platform mobile app development. You don’t need to develop an iOS and Android app separately. All you need is one codebase for both platforms.

Features of Flutter

• It is open-source
• It is dart based (Dart is a famous object-oriented programming language)
• It offers widgets that can be customized as per specific designs (Flutter has two kinds of widgets- Material Design widgets and Cupertino widgets)
• It bases its architecture on reactive programming
• It is a stiff rival to React Native

Why Flutter? Top advantages of Flutter

Extremely Fast App Development

With features like Hot-reload, code changes in Flutter are reflected as soon as the alterations are made. The Hot-reload usually doesn’t take more than milliseconds, which in turn, helps developers to maintain high speeds and dynamicity for mobile app development. Flutter widgets assist in the creation of native interfaces within few minutes.

One code for 2 platforms

Developers write just one codebase for your 2 apps – covering both Android and iOS platforms. Flutter doesn’t depend on the platform, because it has its own widgets and designs. This means that you have the same app on two platforms. Yet what’s important is that, if you want to differentiate your apps – it’s possible.

Reduced Efforts of Testing

Since Flutter apps are cross-platform, the testers do not always require to run the same set of tests on different platforms, such as iOS and Android, for the same app. Cross-platform application development enables applications to run on multiple platforms by writing the programming code only once (follows the WORA concept). This saves the time of the testing team. Thus, Flutter is used extensively by every mobile app developer, Utah, for faster testing, delivery and deployment of mobile applications.

Faster apps

Flutter apps provide smooth and seamless scrolling experiences while in use, without much hangs or cuts.

Perfect for MVP

Do you need an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) for your app to show it to your investors? Flutter will be perfect, especially if you have little time.

Designs which your users will love

With built-in design-centric widgets, high-end development tools, advanced APIs, scrolling and navigation features, etc., Flutter helps in the creation of stunning and expressive user interfaces.

Reactive Framework

With reactive framework, the developers do not need to update UI contents manually. Once the variables are updated, the UI changes will be visible automatically.

Final conclusion & recommendation

In our opinion, Flutter has many more advantages for business and development teams than risks. It’s a great chance to build beautiful, high-performance and outstanding mobile apps which fit your custom needs and requirements. It’s worth considering Flutter, especially if you want an app both for iOS and Android.