Why does flutter have so many fans?

Flutter is an open-source Software Development Kit (SDK) that Google released to make it easier to make mobile apps that are reliable, scalable, and perform well on multiple operating systems by using a single codebase.

Flutter is a complete user interface kit that lets developers make large-scale apps with the best fonts, icons, and scrolling behaviors.

Flutter is based on Google's internal programming language Dart, which makes it easy for developers who already know languages like Java or JavaScript to learn and use. Aside from that, Flutter has great community support and tutorials. This means that mobile app developers with any level of experience can start using this platform right away.

What's good about Flutter

Some things about Flutter are better than the other options. These benefits were built into the language and SDK in order to fix problems and weaknesses that are common in other technologies. Here's a quick list of a few reasons why you should use Flutter for your next project or, if you're in charge, why you should let your developers use it:

Dart

Unlike languages that have had trouble standardizing and often have many different versions with different language features (and many developers don't know what the differences are), the Dart language was built from the ground up to be a great tool for building client applications and has been tuned and optimized for developing UI. There are no different standards, no extra features that should be standard, and no weird language quirks.

Dart has a very clean and powerful syntax that not only helps but also encourages strong application architecture and design, as well as team unity, standardization, longevity, ease of maintenance, and other things that aren't usually associated with many of the existing tools for cross-platform development in general. It is similar to popular languages like C#, Java, and TypeScript, so those with some programming experience can pick it up quickly and start using it right away.

Better time-to market speed

This one is pretty easy to figure out. The Flutter development framework works faster than the other options. Most of the time, making a Flutter app will take at least twice as few hours of work as making the same app for Android and iOS separately. The main reason is very easy to understand: you don't have to write any platform-specific code to give your app the look you want. Flutter can be used to build any 2D user interface that doesn't need to talk to a native app.

Aside from that, Flutter has a declarative API for building user interfaces, which, in my experience, makes the performance a lot better. This is most clear when it comes to changes in how things look.

From what I've seen, it takes at least 40 seconds for a typical mid-sized Android app to be built and sent to a test device. And sometimes it can take a long time just to change a small part of the layout's look. Some of you might say, "Wait, but there's a layout preview for that in Android Studio." And it does. But, of course, there is a but: the feature is limited and doesn't always work as expected, especially with custom views.

The "hot reload" feature of Flutter, on the other hand, lets you see the changes almost immediately without losing the state of the application. And this is exactly what makes Flutter app development a lot faster because of how much faster it is now.

Also, the Flutter team has put a lot of work into making a wide range of widgets that are ready to use. Most of them are very easy to change, which will save you more time than any other framework. Flutter has a large set of Material and Cupertino widgets that perfectly mimic the behavior of each design language. This is in addition to a large set of core layout widgets. How they work is as follows:

Widespread use by software developers

On both GitHub and Stack Overflow, Flutter is now more popular than React Native, which was the most popular framework at the time. This means that there are more places to learn about your application, more skilled developers who can work on it, and faster improvements to the technology itself (meaning that it will grow and mature faster and stay relevant longer).

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The above chart from Stack Overflow Trends shows how Flutter has come out of nowhere to take the lead. This is likely to keep happening, which means that sooner or later it will be harder to find developers who are willing and able to support cross-platform applications that use other technologies. This usually takes a long time (years), but the software development community has seen it happen over and over again.

Flutter is fast

Flutter apps are turned into native binaries that use graphics and rendering engines built in C/C++. As a result, they are very fast and perform well. Flutter applications can run at a steady 60fps on most devices and an amazing 120fps on those that can handle it. Many developers have noticed that Flutter performs much better than other cross-platform frameworks, which is a big reason why mobile app developers are quickly adopting it. Even though building truly native apps is hard to beat in terms of performance and smooth rendering, Flutter has clear advantages over the other cross-platform frameworks.

Not that hard to learn

One could argue that no real production language or toolkit is really easy to learn, but there is a big difference between those with clear documentation and standard design patterns that work for a wide range of use cases and those with spotty documentation and many different ways to do what should be very simple and straightforward tasks.

Aside from performance, another reason why Flutter is becoming so popular is that it has great documentation and a large number of high-quality examples that can be used as guides. This makes all the difference in the world for developers who want to learn a new framework, toolkit, or language. This is especially true for experienced programmers, who are more likely to notice problems with the way a language or toolkit is designed. If you've been programming for a long time, you'll get frustrated quickly if you're trying to learn a new technology that has bad instructions or different ways to do simple tasks. People like Flutter because it has clear documentation and a helpful community of both experts and beginners who are often eager to share their experiences and give others examples of good design and development patterns that work. Most of the time, there is less elitism around technologies that are meant to be easy for a large number of people to use and adopt.

Custom, animated UI of any level of difficulty is available

One of the best things about Flutter is that you can change anything you see on the screen, no matter how hard it is. Even though it's usually possible to make a very custom user interface on a native platform, the amount of work needed is usually orders of magnitude different. Here's an example of a simple but unique user interface:

Well-designed

Flutter was built from the ground up on top of a great language (Dart) and a fast, high-performance rendering engine (Skia). Because of these design decisions, it didn't have to be tested for years at the expense of others, and good decisions about its design were made from the start.

This makes a better framework that encourages developers of all skill levels to build apps in a way that encourages the use of good design patterns and best practices instead of being prone to standards conflicts or built-in technical debt from bad language practices (such as bad JavaScript, which most developers will agree is a nightmare at best). Anyone who has been building apps for years on a variety of devices is likely to see the clear benefits of Flutter within minutes of working with it. Newcomers are less likely to get frustrated because there are so many great examples of best practices on the internet.

Do you want to try out Flutter right now?

There is no doubt about how useful Flutter is. It is especially helpful for people who are starting a business and want to save time and money while getting the best product possible. Flutter can do it all! If you're still not sure if this framework would work for your project, feel free to get in touch with us for advice. We've known Flutter since it was a baby, so we'd like to share what we've learned.