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What is Flutter?
Flutter is an open-source mobile application development framework created by Google. It is used to develop applications for Android and iOS, as well as being the primary method of creating applications for Google Fuchsia.
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(1-9 of 9)- 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.
- 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.
My first choice for native app development
- 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.
- 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
If you, however, want to build quick prototypes I would not recommend it. You really have to consider that this is a development framework already. Thus, keep in mind which stage of your development you are in. If you want to prototype there might be faster and quicker alternatives. This obviously depends on your proficiency with the tool but I think in most cases you should only switch to actual development and Flutter if you have your designs and requirements ready.
- 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.
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- Fast
- Customizable
- User Friendly
- Aesthetically Pleasing
- Large File Size
- iOS Support
- Not fully browser supported
Flutter, by Google is here to stay
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- 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!).
- Gaming (particularly with 3d rendering. Use a game engine!)
- Apps with lots of custom components.
- Web-first development. If you need an application, flutter is great. If you need a website, use React, Next, Angular, or something else. :)
- 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.
1. When you are looking to achieve a perfect native in-app experience (Flutter feels incredibly close to apps built with native iOS or Android tools, but there are a few areas you can notice the differences).
2. If you require a vast amount of native code to be written (in which case, you can still use Flutter for the UI, but its time-saving benefits drops considerably).
3. If you are only building a single-platform (iOS or Android) app.
- 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.