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What is Flutter?
Flutter is an open-source SDK that builds on Dart programming language and developed by Google. It released in 2017 by Google for the developer. After released of Flutter 1.9 now It is used to develop applications for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux, Google Fuchsia and the web. Flutter app development is getting famous and most popular for native app developers due to their cross-platform and single code base nature.
Why Flutter App Development?
As Google State that Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.
Since flutter has been introduced by Google and manage with Google so it is very secure and trust the open-source. And it will keep updating with the best future that helps Flutter Developer to build awesome native applications and concord the development world. But here I am giving the main features that drive you to build or develop your app with Flutter.
Flutter Architecture:
In flutter everything is widgets.
How did Flutter/Dart transform into a Native App?
Flutter App Development Features/Benefits:
Cross-Platform
It has cross-platform development features. Since Google launched Android developers love to build a native app that used on the Android app and it gets to cover all android development. But since users required to develop for all platforms to run their app. Now Since Google recognized this they developed Flutter with Dart programming language with cross-platform development, So the developer can develop an app that works on multiple platforms with hustle free and users can save a lot of time and money to build their app that will work on multiple platforms.
A Single Codebase
It means one code can run for multiple platforms no required different codes to develop a single mobile application for different platforms. It means a single code will run on both Android and IOS now no required to write different codes for Android and IOS platforms respectively. Since Google launch, Android SDK developer can build an app that only works for android mobile but it will not work on iPhones. For iPhone, we have to build a different code and we need to ios developer and write different codes for that. So it will take a lot of time and cost to build an application for both platforms and users have to invest more cost as well as time along with team management.
Web App with same codebase
After releasing Flutter 2.X now we can build a web app on Flutter itself. Now, most benefits are that you can use the same code to build a flutter web app. This is the benefit of a single codebase. Here once you build your application and developer write code for your application you can implement for now web app too without wasting time to develop and write new source code for your own Flutter web app and development.
Flutter Desktop App
Now, We can able to build our desktop application using flutter with the same code that written by our Flutter Developer of the Flutter developer company. It a single codebase allows us now to build a flutter desktop app with the same code that helps a lot of time for business as well as cost. If you are a developer and new to Flutter App development then you can check Flutter Desktop documentation at https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Desktop-shells here you will find the all the details how to deploy your flutter code to Flutter Desktop app development.
Fast Development
Have you an idea about your app then paint your app to life and build in milliseconds with stateful hot reload. Here you can use a rich set of fully customizable widgets that allow building a native app in minutes. Since it has a single codebase that reduce 40% all development process compare to native app development. Because in native app development, you have to write the code separately for both iOS and Android and have to do testing for that.
Hot Reload
It has a hot reload feature that allows fast development. Because it has been taking time to save our project and see the result of that. This will save a lot of time for the developer. Once you save your code it will automatically load your application on your local server or host on which you are working. So you no need to wait after saving the project and again execute and build the grid of your app. Once you save your project it will automatically build a grid and compile and show the result so you can add new features and fix bugs faster. Now here we’ll Experience sub-second reload times, without losing state, on emulators, simulators, and hardware for iOS and Android. you want to check live demo code then example then you can check https://flutter.dev/docs/development/tools/hot-reload
Widgets
In flutter, everything is a widget. You have to build a set of widgets that will reuse and customized and per we required. It allows flutter app development very fast.
Expressive and Beautiful UIs
It has an inbuilt design that allows building a very expressive and beautiful UI that gives the user the best user experience. So, now you can give your user as a gift with Flutter’s inbuilt Material Design and Cupertino (iOS-flavor) widgets, rich motion APIs, smooth natural scrolling, and platform awareness. There are many apps that build on Flutter and win awarded here is one example of Flutter UI award-winning app. It is known as Reflect.
Native Performance
Flutter’s widgets incorporate with all critical functions that depend on different platforms, like scrolling, icons, the font that will look native to different platforms like Android and iOS.
SDLC for Flutter Development
Flutter Development will make a very fast and easy Software life cycle that helps a lot to the developer as well as businesses to provide productive applications for their end-users.
Costing
It will save a lot of cost for you. Because here we don’t require multiple development teams that required previously. Here one development team and a testing team able to handle and you will get your mobile app for both Android and iOS with a single development and testing team with an expressive UIs and secure app.
Time
Time is the most important factor for your business. Before that, we have to allocate the time for Android and iOS development and a testing team to validate for both platforms. On the basis of unit testing and functional testing. Now here we required only one unit testing team to test the project as well as hot reload features allow the developer itself to debug their code and find their bugs faster and fix it. Flutter’s widgets allow that build a fast development and customize that widget as per code and functionality usability.
I think now you got an overview of why you should choose Flutter development to build your application. If you have still any query then make a comment below and let us know what else information do you need more about the Flutter Mobile App Development.
Here we are going to list some of the best Flutter applications that recognized worldwide and listed on Flutter official website under their showcase too.
Best App Flutter App & Company
Google ads/Adwords: Google built their Google Ads app on Flutter to enhance user experience and manage their online business advertising from their mobile device from anywhere and run their business successfully without any hustle or hustle free.
Alibaba: We all know that Alibaba is the world’s largest online eCommerce platform that allows us to buy and sell your goods around the world. Now they build their app features on Flutter that enhance the user experience.
Realtor.com: They build their app that updates real-time the listing of the house so users can find their dream house. Recently they got an award with their live feature updates and best User experience.
Tencent: They use flutter to build several apps for their company. These are some app example AITeacher, Now Live, K12, Mr. Translator, QiDian, and DingDang that they used flutter to build these apps.
The New York Times: Now the New York Times build ken ken puzzle to bring some interesting game puzzle for their users. Now they build this app with Flutter for life on Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, and web.
Google Assistance: Now we will see in our android mobile, The Google assistance came inbuilt with that and it has great features it also has been developed on Flutter.
Square: Square developer builds a Flutter plugin that enables the developer to build an app for a merchant that will take a payment to person payment. They developed two plugins first Flutter plugin for Reader SDK and second is Flutter plugin for In-App Payments SDK for more details and documentation you can check their official site here https://squareup.com/us/en/flutter
Where you can hire or buy Flutter Apps
There are a lot of Flutter App marketplaces that have been selling the ready to use Flutter Apps, but you have the development knowledge to configure your app with your own backend. In case you are new and you looking for full custom Flutter App Development as per your business requirement and looking for hire a Flutter development company that can help you out then choose those company those have prior experience in Flutter development and enough project done on that like Ionicfirebaseapp.com, I found that they have been delivering the best flutter app on their own market place and it shows more than 1000 clients have been using there apps that build on Flutter.
How much does it cost to Hire a Flutter Developer?
It depends on the company infrastructure and your project requirement, time and other factors. If you are looking for only development, not support of further customization then it might have cost you around Min $20-$30/hrs (this is startup company cost) this cost as per startup conversation they told us that would be the starting cost for that. So it will cost more as per the company standard and your work.
Conclusion
In this post we have mation about about what is Flutter and it’s benefits. Even we saw why we choose flutter app development and what will the cost and how easy to maintain.
FAQ
Q. 1. What exactly is Google Flutter?
Ans: Flutter is an open-source cross-platform UI Development kit that developed with Google. It has been used for develop a cross-platform application for iOS, Android, Linux, Mac, Windows, web form, and Google Fuchsia with a single codebase.
Q. 2. What is the future of flutter?
Ans: If you are looking for start own business and want to save time and cost then Flutter has a good future. Since it has been developed and maintain by Google and it is going to use for Google Fuchsia it might have good idea. If you are looking for a job opening with big organization then you may take native mobile app development instead of Flutter. If you want to start career with startup and mid-level companies then Flutter has good future.
Q. 3. Should I learn Flutter?
Ans: It depends on your interset. But you are looking to get started faster with app development then you should learn Flutter it will help to speed up your development and you will get exp for both iOS and Android. In case if you want to start your startup business then also you can choose, because it will save your time & cost by 40%. In case you are looking for corporate jobs with good companies then you should learn Native app development.
Q. 4. How did you learn Google Flutter?
Ans: You can start with Flutter official website, Check out here and freecodecamp. Or you can start with YouTube videos. YouTube is the best platform to get started. Or you can buy a paid Flutter course from online channel like udemy and others.
Q. 5. What are the benefits of flutter?
Ans: There a many benefits of Flutter. Some of the important benefits are: Free to use, Fast Development, Cross-platform, a Single Codebase, Hot Reload, Reuseable Widget codes, and Native like auto adujstable UI.
Q. 6. Is anyone using Flutter to create apps?
Ans: Yes, Flutter has been adopted with so many organisation even with most of mobile app developer. Now it has a huge community around the world. As of now these are some trust companies using to build app with Flutter development kit. Here is the some of the companies name: Google, BMW, eBay, Nubank, Square, Groupon, Alibaba Group, CapitalOne, Dream11, EMAAR, TACENT.
Q. 7. What is Avg. Flutter Developer salary
Ans: The avgerage Flutter developer salary in India will be ₹ 600,000 per year or ₹ 308 per hour. If you are an entry level positions then it will start at ₹ 407,500 per year while most experienced developer make up to ₹ 1,282,500 per year.
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