Why is Flutter a better choice than its native competitors?

It often happens that a new software engineer sets out to explore the most famous and thrilling tech ground — App Development. As easy as it may sound, choosing the right spec sheet and ideology behind building your app is downright difficult. From your initial idea, selecting your target audience to finalising the tech stack required to build it; it all boils down to the requirement and availability of resources.

Until May 2017, app development had always been dependent on the ‘Native’ development kits released by respective companies — namely Apple for iOS and Google for Android, in addition to various Web development frameworks.

Native application building refers to developing an app-specific to either iOS, Android, Windows, or Web, etc. making full use of the device’s features, such as gyroscope, accelerometer, camera, microphone to name a few. Some of the commonly used frameworks and programming languages are:-

iOS: Swift, Objective-C, and Xcode

Android: Kotlin, Java, and Android Studio

Web: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and now with the support of various other languages and frameworks like Cordova, etc.

If you have ever worked on native apps before, you would be well versed with the struggles of maintaining different code bases for different environments i.e. separate source for iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, and Web, hence, complicating and making everything go haywire.

The best feature that flutter comes along with is its cross-platform functionality i.e. using the same code base to compile the code into different native apps. You can have the same business logic, same dependencies, and different engineers contributing to the same code, compiled into various platform apps.

One of the most applauded features of flutter is hot reload, which allows you to directly load and view any new changes to the app without re-building it entirely: on emulators, simulators, and hardware. In a few seconds, the code will reload while the app is running, without having to restart it. This isn’t great just for adding features or improvising, but also for bug fixing.

As mentioned earlier, Dart has its own widgets and doesn’t have to interact with OEM widgets, there will be no compatibility issues in terms of widgets with different OS versions.

Both Flutter and Dart are open-source, hence there is a huge community and extensive documents out there to help you on your way.

Flutter uses Dart which has an enormous component library built-in, resulting in a bigger size but often does not require a bridge to communicate with native modules. Dart has various frameworks — covering almost every required tech stack to develop an app. In addition to it, Flutter uses Skia C++ engine, which has all protocols, channels, and compositions defined. Hence, giving you a full-fledged environment without worrying about a single add-on.

Since its inception in May 2017, Flutter has rooted itself in the tech world and will continue to grow. It had already declared itself to be a much-needed tool in 2020, with more and more advancement on its way — Flutter is bound to become ‘one of the best tools, if not ‘the best, that you would want in your arsenal.

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