Introduction to Flutter
Flutter has been gaining popularity among developers and most are already migrating to this wonderful tool. Let us look at what Flutter really is.
Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google. Flutter is used to build cross-platform apps for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac and the web form a single codebase. Cool right?
However, flutter is not a programming language. It is a framework based on Dart which was also developed by Google. Dart is actually very easy to learn and it is similar to the popular language JavaScript. Dart compiles faster nd runs easily on computers.
Things to Know About Flutter
- Flutter for cross platform apps
- Flutter web supports web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Beautiful User Interface
- Flutter is built entirely on widgets
- Productive Development
- Fast Result
- Consistent app user interface on app platform
- Easy to understand documentation
- Flutter has a fast growing community
- Flutter is used to write cross-platform applications
- Flutter web supports web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Beautiful User Interface
- Flutter is built entirely on widgets
- Productive Development
- Fast Result
- Consistent app user interface on app platform
- Easy to understand documentation
- Flutter has a fast growing community
Flutter as a mentioned earlier is used to build cross platform app. You don't have to worry yourself and spend more time writing different code for apps for different platform . Android, iOS , Mac, Windows, Desktop apps are built with the same code.
Another thing good about Flutter is the ability to use normal web technologies/languages like HTML, CSS and JavaScript in it. Flutter has packages which supports these languages.
Flutter uses the material user design made by google and helps developers to make beautiful apps and nice user interface. Flutter makes use of widgets that offers pixel perfect experiences on both iOS and Android.
Part of the reasons why Flutter is easy to use is because it is based on widgets. Building of apps is broken into simple pieces. Building a car, you make the tires, the lights the body parts; same with Flutter. You have widgets like the Scafford, App bar, Buttons etc.
Flutter has hot reload which allows you to make changes to your app ad see the result instantly without having to restart your app
Flutter is fast. It's powered by the same hardware-accelerated 2D graphics library that underpins Chrome and Android: Skia. Flutter is architected to support glitch-free, jank-free graphics at the native speed of your device. Flutter code is powered by the world-class Dart platform, which enables compilation to 32-bit and 64-bit ARM machine code for iOS and Android, as well as JavaScript for the web and Intel x64 for desktop devices.
With Flutter, you don't have to worry and struggling with user interface. In the above image, the design in android is same with the design in iOS. Since it is based on the same code, the UI will be consistent
The docs are easy to understand, the words and terminologies there are easily explained. You can click here to check the flutter docs.
Flutter has a fast growing community. The graph up there is showing the star history of flutter in GitHub over the years. Also many developers have been migrating to flutter consistently over the years.
Conclusion
Flutter is the easiest way to develop cross-platform apps. And it’s just a matter of time before it is accepted as the best.
