Why Choose Flutter Platform For Hybrid Mobile App Development?
There are various mobile app development tools available in the market that are being used for mobile application development for both Android and iOS. But looking at the increasing demand for all the above features, the technology giant Google has introduced a new cross-platform app development tool named Flutter.
What is Flutter?
Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit that was introduced back in 2017 since then it is in trend among mobile app developers and mobile app development companies. Basically, Flutter is a free and open-source mobile SDK, which is used to build beautiful native mobile applications in Dart programming language.
In today’s time, Flutter has become everyone’s choice for cross-platform application development due to superior visual appearance.
Moreover, this technology has already been adopted by some of the most famous companies such as Alibaba, Google Ads, BMW, eBay, Groupon, Birch Finance, App Tree, Hamilton Musical and many more.
1. Widespread Developer Adoption
In a very short span of time, Flutter has emerged as the most popular tool for cross-platform app development among mobile app developers. And its demand is likely to continue in the future. It is literally very easy to learn as an individual with no technical skills can build mobile applications for Android and iOS.
2. Write Code Faster
This mobile SDK is known for fast coding means the one can build applications by writing fewer codes in very less time. It also allows developers to change code in run-time and can instantly view the changes made in the code in the application. The developers can use the same code to build the iOS and Android app. Moreover, this tool also provides custom widgets written in Dart to craft User Interface without any efforts. Using JavaScript libraries provided by Flutter, developers can build cross-platform applications for Android and iOS.
3. Multi-Platform Capability
Cross-platform is one of the main factors which makes it the best cross-platform mobile application development. It enables the developers to write the code once, compile it, and use it for a variety of platforms like Android, iOS, and Windows. This is the next big thing that you can consider to save huge time and money in developing native applications.
4. Hot Reload
Hot Reload is the best feature to entertain the Flutter app developer. Being a single code platform, it is simple and easy to debug the code in less time as quality analysts only have one codebase to test. Moreover, it has an auto-reload feature that allows developers to make changes in code in real-time and fix the bugs in an app while developing the app.
5. UI Component and Development API
Flutter comes featured with loads of libraries, UI components, extensive custom widgets catalog and device API, while React Native is heavily dependent on third-party libraries. So the user interface and functionalities are quite impressive and different from others. For react native, there is no official support for User Interface testing, while Flutter provides hot reload testing as it has excellent documentation for testing.
6. Native Performance
It is said that Flutter’s custom widgets integrate all critical platform differences such as animation, navigation, scrolling, and fonts & icons. Code that you write in Flutter compiles to native ARM machine code through Dart’s native compilers. That is why Flutter provides full native performance on both iOS and Android. If you build a cross-platform application, it can significantly boost the overall performance of the app on both platforms (Android and iOS) due to a common code base, and make the app feel-like native. Whether it is material widgets or animations, it always provides dynamic performance while you navigate the feature of the application.
7. Strong Backend Supported By Firebase
Firebase, it is the most powerful database handler built on Google infrastructure. It can scales databases automatically for even the most complex applications. It is easy to build and handle as Flutter mobile app developers can easily configure the complex database with the Flutter applications. With such quick authentication facilities, a real-time database management system, powerful cloud storage, and hosting, Firebase provides a strong back-end for the Flutter platform to work efficiently. Using all these, developers can easily handle the information of the users. This is considered one of the best tools from Google that the one can use to build app infrastructure, boost functionality and improve the quality of the app.