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These days most business services are available online using various mobile apps. Everyone is using their mobiles to avail various business services. Businesses also prefer to use Mobile Apps to reach out to their users. Developing these requires huge time and money. Flutter, by Google helps us to develop native apps, it helps in quicker development of the android and iOS apps.
- It is powered by Google, so a great technical community is backing it.
- The development of native apps is an easy process using Flutter.
- As it is an open-source tool, we can use it without paying anything.
- It provides nice UI options.
- It still needs stability, there are too many frequent updates.
- It requires learning a new programming language, i.e. Dart. However, one can learn it easily if you have previous experience with JS or any similar language.
- Documentation is too technical.
Flutter is widely used to develop native mobile applications. It supports the development of web apps for browsers, android apps, and ios apps. Using Flutter we do not have to use different languages for different platforms, like Java for Android, swift for ios, etc. We can develop apps for all the platforms using a single codebase in Flutter.
- We can quickly test and code online via Dartpad for better & quicker development.
- We can build apps with cross-compatibilities using a single codebase.
- It has many widget options for better app development.
- Web applications built using Flutter still need so many improvements, like SEO friendly, server-side and client-side codes.
- Frequent updates are frustrating.
- It is not widely adopted.
May 12, 2022
My first choice for native app development
Flutter is well known for native app developments. We can easily develop both android and ios as well as web apps using just one source code. We use it to develop our android and ios mobile apps. This saves a huge amount of our time as we do not have to build different codebases to develop apps for major mobile OSs, i.e. android and ios.
- Flutter has one of the greatest user interface in world of mobile app development.
- It offers positive user experience.
- Flutter has a large knowledge base and various tutorials available.
- To use Flutter, we have to learn a new programming language.
- They could offer more theme options to choose from.
Flutter, as we know, is a well-known solution to develop native apps using a single codebase. These apps work very well on Web, Android, and iOS devices. However, in our case, we are not using Flutter for the website or web apps. We are just using it to develop our android and ios mobile apps.
- Powered by Google, so reliable technology and great community support.
- Developing cross-platform apps with Flutter is an easy task. It saves a huge time and money.
- Its user interface is quite good and efficient.
- It might be difficult to learn, as it is based on Dart instead of Java or Kotlin.
- As flutter is comparatively new, there are not enough tutorials or samples for all use cases.
- Doesn't work that great for web-based solutions.
Flutter, by Google is one of the best choices while developing a native mobile application. As it allows us to develop apps for both Android and iOS using a single codebase, we use Flutter, by Google to develop our app. Although it also allows the development of web applications as well using flutter, it doesn't suit our requirements, so we do not use Flutter, by Google for our website or web apps.
- It allows the development of apps for both Android and iOS using a single Codebase.
- It has a great user interface.
- As it is powered by Google, we have the support of a top community of developers.
- As Flutter, by Google is comparatively new in the native development, there are frequent updates and some features occasionally go deprecated.
- It requires a good knowledge of Dart Programming Language.
- Initial setup might be a little bit difficult for beginners.
I am working in the field of service design and therefore often need to work with mobile applications as well. As mobile applications are only one potential touchpoint I am looking at, I am almost always face to consider digital touchpoints in all different forms. While I use other software to quickly prototype these touchpoints, Flutter is my go to framework to transform the designs and ideas into actual applications. I like that it is easy to use, fast, and flexible. It my sound trivial but the hot reload functionality increases my productivity a lot. Even-though, I did not made decision in the first place to use it I am happy that it was chosen. With the open source philosophy and the back up by Google I am confident that I am working on and building a skill that will be valuable for me in the future as well.
- Hot Reload
- Open Source and Ecosystem
- Beautiful UI
- Cross-Platform Capabilities
- Self-Help content (Tutorials, YouTube, ...) - really great resources
- Widget Extension
- Debugger could be a bit more clearly sometimes
- Documentation could be a bit more clearly sometimes
May 03, 2022
Best cross platform app development tool
Flutter is a very powerful complete SDK that can develop mobile, desktop, and web applications with just a single code base.
We are using Flutter for making applications that will be used by clients on multiple platforms like android and ios both. Libraries are useful, we can use common functions for multiple use cases.
We are using Flutter for making applications that will be used by clients on multiple platforms like android and ios both. Libraries are useful, we can use common functions for multiple use cases.
- Documentation is well managed by google.
- Custom made widget available to use.
- High performance code.
- App size became larger with Flutter.
- Dart language is used in Flutter, which initial time taken to learn.
April 29, 2022
Flutter - good for simple apps and quick POCs
We use Flutter for cross-platform building and for building POCs within. It has a little bit of a learning curve, but a very useful tool to have, once you learn it.
- The performance is very good.
- Community support is okay. - New language, and new platform. So, a bit of a learning curve.
- Good for POCs but tough to take it beyond and maintain it for years to come.
- The talent pool is not very wide, so it's tough to get developers.
- The performance is very good.
- Community support is okay. - New language, and new platform. So, a bit of a learning curve.
- Good for POCs but tough to take it beyond and maintain it for years to come.
- The talent pool is not very wide, so it's tough to get developers.
- Cross platform building, across iOS and Android.
- Opinionated, so it's good.
- Threading and handling of basic use cases is easy and straight forward.
- New language learning, and a new platform. So, a bit of a learning curve and tough to enter.
- More resources and docs for even the extreme cases would help take this platform even further
Flutter is a programming kit that we use to develop cross-platform mobile applications. It helps us create applications for multiple platforms (Android, iOS, as well as web applications) by working on and maintaining a single project. Flutter is open-source so it is preferred by a lot of companies (ours isn't any different) and since it is created by Google, it has a huge community with great support. With Flutter, making applications for our clients has become very easy and fast. It is scalable and the learning curve isn't that big.
- Create Multi-Platform Applications.
- Create Scalable Applications.
- Work and Deliver applications faster to clients.
- Huge Community and good support.
- It still lacks a lot of features that you can get from platform-dependent programming languages.
- It still has some bugs here and there.
April 27, 2022
FLUTTERING
At our mid sized company, one hundred to five hundred tech users, we use Google Flutter as a User Interface tool to build applications for various platforms, web, mobile, desktop, and more, from a single warehouse. It gives users everything they need to create cross platform apps- this includes a robust library of premade features.
- Fast
- Customizable
- User Friendly
- Aesthetically Pleasing
- Large File Size
- iOS Support
- Not fully browser supported
April 27, 2022
The fifty shades of Flutter
We are utilizing Flutter for the development of a cross-platform app dedicated to scheduling the student courses, timetables, mobile file reader, and simple communication server-client interaction. Also, it is used for the implementation of some specific platform-based application development such as electromagnetic pulse detector for iOS, Android OS and MacOS platforms.
- Cross-platform support and development
- Native Features Access (for instance, reuse of Kotlin and Swift in development)
- Instant changes in the app
- Smooth performance, especially for UX
- Minimizing the code size (in MBytes), compared to Kotlin and Swift
- Future support of web apps
- High entry level - learning Dart language (not very popular one)
April 26, 2022
Flutter, by Google is here to stay
Flutter is a programming language that is used to build cross-platform applications quickly and (ideally!) easily. At its best, Flutter allows developers to code once and launch on:
For mobile devs, this is a great library to build things quickly.
- Android
- iOS
- Web
For mobile devs, this is a great library to build things quickly.
- Cross Platform Development.
- Mobile UI Theming.
- Supportive Dev Community.
- Easy to setup and test.
- Customizing Components.
- Third Party Library Size.
- Historical knowledge base (due to Flutter's relative newness!).
I have to be honest, the first time I saw the Flutter syntax I was horrified until I started to try it and wrote a couple of proofs of concept to grasp the basics of the language (Dart) and the framework. Once you start, and after becoming familiar with the weird indentation, the framework proves to be really performant and useful for rapid prototyping of conceptual apps.
- Performance
- Time to market really low
- Animations are super easy, and very nice
- A lot of useful and ready to use libraries can be found in dev.pub
- Difficult at first
- Dart is not a commonly used language
April 26, 2022
Very promising, needs extra features
I use it for small apps that need to be cross-platform and without too advanced features or resource-intensive utilization.
- Cross-platform.
- Easy to prototype.
- Easy to have platform specific logic.
- Flutter doctor.
- Specific API, especially no support for Apple Pencil.
- Same thing for coreML.
- Not a real IDE dedicated for Flutter.
- Google product, can be dropped at any time.
We use Flutter for our cross-platform mobile app. We wanted to use something like Flutter in order to maintain a single codebase, with the goal of not compromising on performance and quality. While it's simply not feasible to build 100% native-quality apps with a cross-platform solution like Flutter, our goal was to get 95% of the way there, and we believe Flutter achieves this goal while allowing our developers to use a single, shared codebase and work on updates for iOS and Android simultaneously.
- Decreases development by half, sometimes more.
- Increases collaboration by providing our developers a shared language and codebase to work with.
- Generally strong performance, with very few noticeable performance drop-offs, compared to native code.
- Extremely strong plugin ecosystem and developer community.
- Occasionally updates to the Flutter SDK result in wide-sweeping changes that seem to not be thoroughly tested and considered. Flutter sometimes evolves too fast for its own good.
- While the 3rd-party Flutter package ecosystem is vast and rich, 1st-party support for basic things (audio/video playback, battery information, Bluetooth services, etc.) are lacking. You are occasionally forced to rely on an open-source package for use-cases that other platforms have native support for.
- Documentation, particularly around testing, is lacking. While there are some great docs, like the Dart Style Guide, many Flutter-focused support documents are lacking in quality and real-world usability.
- Flutter allows you to architect an app however you want. While this is a great feature, it also adds complexity and leads to the current state of Flutter's state management, where there are 50+ options on how to organize your app, with very little official guidance or recommendations from the Flutter team. For a beginner, this can create decision paralysis.
October 07, 2021
Truly cross-platform compatible
Flutter is used for cross-platform development with quality of native apps. We used this language for developing Android, iOS and web applications with one-time code. We also use other platforms for cross-developing in our company but nowadays Flutter is in trending.
- It's cross platform for developing Android, IOS and Web applications.
- It's designed with native feels
- It's very easy to learn and adopt
- There is limited number of libraries but it will grows as per time.
- Application size are bigger in size than native application
After evaluating several graphical framework solutions, we've recently adopted Flutter as our framework of choice for developing native apps on both desktop and mobile platforms. We wanted something that had free and open licensing, solid cross-platform support for Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android, and a strong ecosystem. Flutter ticks all those boxes and then some.
- User interface design works great across all platforms, including native styling for iOS/macOS.
- Native compilation for mobile platforms and a decent rendering engine results in slick apps that can make the most of your device.
- Dart is a well thought out language and easy to pick up.
- Makes cross-platform development of good looking GUI apps a doddle.
- Flutter has a relatively young ecosystem. It's growing fast and looks like it's here to stay, but it will take time for it to mature fully.
- A problem that plagues all cross-platform GUI frameworks - the 'look and feel' can be awkward to perfect for all targets from a single layout. To be fair, it's hard to see how this could be improved much, and it is worth accepting you may need to use platform specific layouts in some situations.
- Strong ties to the Dart language may put some developers off, as it's not the widest known of languages. However, it is easy to pick up, and makes for a very pleasant to use, static typed language.