History & Evolution
Dive into modern app development, The Flutter is the newest free and open-source framework developed by Google for building super cool beautiful, natively compiled, and multi-platform applications from a single codebase.
In May 2017, Google introduced the Flutter initial release, It's based on the Dart, C & C++ languages. As of today, Flutter supports five main platforms to develop applications including Android, iOS, Web, Desktop (Windows, macOS, and Linux), and Embedded systems.
Key Features & Functionalities
These are the key features that Flutter provides.
- Multi-platform development
Flutter now supports a single codebase to compile multi-platforms including Android, iO, Web, Desktop Apps, and Embedded systems. that is a good initiative.
- Quick development, hot reload, and hot restart
Flutter provides a cool feature called Hot Reload that helps to view the changes without restarting the app. It saves time and speeds up the development process.
- Beautiful UI's
Flutter provides a wealth of customizable widgets to make the eye catchy & responsive user interfaces. Also, some design tools like Figma, are officially supported for the export of the design component to the dart.
- Fast Performance
Flutter's architecture supports high performance, resulting in smooth animation and fast rendering. Also Flutter code compiles to ARM or Intek machine code as well as JavaScript for fast performance on any device.
- Inbuilt testing & debugging tools
Flutter provides a wide variety of tools and features to help debug Flutter applications. Flutter dev tool is a major suite of performance and profiling. Most IDEs like Android Studio, IntelliJ, and VsCode also officially support testing and debugging the Flutter apps.
- Community Support
Since 2017 to now, the Flutter community has been rapidly growing and most of the native app developers are enthusiastic about moving with the Flutter. furthermore, third-party plugins, libraries, and widgets are available for the public as a result of community growth.
Which Companies are dive with Flutter
Flutter's impressive features have lured the top companies to consider it for their mobile apps. These are the companies that use the Flutter.
Alibaba
Reflectly
Birch Finance
Hamilton Musical
Coach Yourself
Hookle
Approximately, there are over 1M Flutter apps that are running on mobile app stores & working amazingly.
Next - Setting up your FlutterDevelopment Environment
Happy Coding ❤