Being one of the fairly newly developed technologies, Flutter has quickly gained popularity in the tech industry, and with good reason. Having been created by Google, it is a framework that is now used in numerous business applications such as BWV, Nubank, Alibaba Group, Toyota, eBay, and more.

 Basics of Flutter Development

 Flutter is a cross-platform software development kit or SDK, that is used for creating web, mobile, and desktop applications that run off a single code base. People also call it a UI Framework, as it offers a set of UI elements that can be used and personalized during the development of your app.

This framework can give you a lot of creative freedoms and possibilities, allowing you to make beautiful products that look and feel like they’re native apps. Flutter has features that allow you to quickly create prototypes, MVPs, or complex games and apps.

 How Flutter works

 Flutter runs on the Dart language and has its own multiple compilers, package managers, parser, and transpilers. Because the Dart compiler can build your app into native coding, this means you don’t need a JavaScript bridge to execute your work. This can prevent bugs that will show up during the interpretation process.

Any application that is built with Flutter is made around widgets that are considered to be building blocks of your application. Each element added to your interface is a widget that can be stateful (allowing it to change) or stateless (never being able to change).

On top of all this, Flutter also makes use of its own library, which offers you high-quality design materials, Cupertino widgets, themes, and layouts – all of which can be used when designing your app. If you don’t like any of the widgets or designs they have to offer, then it is super simple to create your own widgets or designs or even customize the ones they have on offer.

Flutter’s engine mostly utilizes C++ and Skia when it comes to its high-performance graphic engine, allowing your app’s UI to run at a smooth 60 FPS to 120 FPS.

 

Advantages of Flutter

       High performance

FPS, or Frames per second, determines how smoothly your application will run. Apps with a lower FPS will be extremely slow to run and, in turn, will taint a user’s experience with your app. The opposite can be said for apps that have a much higher frame rate per second. When compared to other apps built on other frameworks, apps that were built with Flutter were shown to have a much higher FPS and, thus, a faster experience with their UI.

 

  •       Cost Efficient

Flutter is a framework that allows you two run cross-platform apps, which means you no longer need to have large teams to run two different native apps. This cut in your team means you can keep your budget low by only using one team when running your app off of the Flutter framework.

 

  •       High-end user experience and Scalability

As Flutter has its own library, it doesn’t run off a native UI element and instead allows you to customize your app’s UI appearance to your own taste. Being highly customizable mobile users often prefer the looks of apps run off of Flutter. 

Since Flutter offers customizable features, it also allows its developers to quickly and efficiently add new features or updates, which means you can extend your user base without breaking any of your app’s functions.