Why Is Fluter Going to Rule The App Development in 2021?

If you're on the edge deciding whether you should pick Flutter or native development for your next project, you are reading just the right blog. You may be wondering why Flutter is better than native development. There are many people out there who are still bashing Flutter for things which are actually the advantages of Flutter. I do not understand why people are doing that. According to Google, about 500,000 developers use Flutter every month. There are many advantages of working with flutter like you do not need to worry about native views on Android or UI views on iOS, but you can freely work with every single pixel which is displayed on the screen. You do not need to worry about text views, buttons, and style of buttons. You can create bars in just a single way. Everything is basically a widget and every widget in Flutter is fully customizable to every single pixel because you are not working with some predefined UI views but you are really working with those pixels. It's working like a game engine for instance. Now really like a game engine it's not redrawing itself every 60 frames per second unless you are having some animations there. It's not like a game engine but it's still like a game engine in their regard that you can position everything freely everywhere and you do not need to worry about stuff. In this blog post, I'm going to tell you the eight great features of flutter which is going to convince you to use flutter in your next mobile app development project. Advantages of Using Flutter for Mobile App Development Easy learning curve The first reason is what will be the easiest reason to use flutter for mobile app development. The flutter is super easy to learn therefore you can get plenty of resources to build your mobile app. This is because the dart is a very easy language; it's just like Python or JavaScript. Let me clear one thing that dart is a programming language used in flutter and flutter is a software toolkit to build mobile applications. If I am talking about the dart that means I am talking about the flutter and vice versa. If any developer starts learning the flutter, he or she can create a simple app within a week and that's the power of easiness. This is because of the plenty of resources you can find online. The first 2 resources are obviously the flutter and dart documentation and the official YouTube channel of flutter. rnFlutter is Cross-Platform One more great reason which is Flutter is cross-platform. Before the arrival of flutter, the react-native backed by Facebook, Xamarin which is a part of Microsoft, and Angularjs which is obviously backed by Google. These three basically create cross-platform applications. Cross-platform means if you create an application in one code base and you can export it on two different platforms like Android and iOS so the same thing with a flutter. If you write your application one so you can export them in Android and iOS. It is a great thing to flutter. rnHigh Performance In mobile applications, performance matters a lot. Flutter is a performance-oriented platform because if you compare flutter with the react-native, later you have JavaScript. To compile the JavaScript into the native Android or native iOS codebase, there is a JavaScript bridge which is making react-native slower than flutter as flutter doesn't have any kind of bridge. Flutter is written in dart and the dart code is directly going to convert to native Android or native iOS so that's why it is faster. But, you can achieve great performance by optimization so if you optimize your Flutter application you can go near to the native performance. You can then have frequent UI changes that will make your application more powerful even written in a flutter. There are many companies out there, providing Flutter Development Services with high performing mobile apps. rnHot reloading This is a magical thing in Flutter. If you're familiar with the JavaScript frameworks like react, vue, and angularjs as soon as you make changes and save the file that changes reflects on the front-end on the design part. Similar to these things the flutter has introduced this hot reload. It means there is no run of Gradle build. So what's happening before? If you have any experience in building mobile applications; if you want to make changes like giving a margin, then you will give the margin on the code then you need to build it and that build takes 30 to 40 seconds to reflect the changes. But with the help of hot reload on flutter, it will be instant which means as soon as you save the file the changes will reflect on your application. Due to this, the time reduced by 30 or 40 percent. This is the most post salable point of flutter. rnDesigning power As the flutter is cross-platform, you can build an Android and iOS application with one codebase. You must have a defining part because both platforms have different designing systems but flutter takes care of these things. It has a material designing toolkit for Android and Cupertino widgets for iOS. You can have the same kind of design in both iOS and Android. In iOS, you have lots of Cupertino widgets that are specifically designed for iOS. So you can use these and flutter will take care of these things. The most important point is that you can check which platform you are going to export and then it will check the iOS or it will check the Android. According to this, it will show that designing parts like that list kind of things. So this is again the designing power you have. So much designing power that you are going to love the flutter. Open-source package In Flutter, everything is open source. You can create your own package and you can use others' packages and there is no restriction. Flutter team also has official packages that you can use. If you want to have a date picker, you can go and have a package so you don't have to waste time in just writing these things on your own. So that's the power of an extensive collection of open-source packages. Also, you are going to love these things like packages and flutter obviously. Everything is Widget If you are familiar with HTML, in HTML to create a bold text you have a bold tag, for a bigger text H1 tag is there, etc. Every HTML tag can be inserted inside the HTML tag. The same thing is with the flutter. In flutter, we have widgets which are the key point of the flutter. Everything is a Widget wrap which can be wrapped inside another widget has its own designing system, margin color, layout, font, etc. Also, you can create your own widget and that's the most powerful thing. You can create your own widget in your custom Widget. You can also have multiple native-like widgets are given by the flutter. rnWeb and Desktop development Flutter developer has knowledge of Dart so he or she can use the same knowledge to create web and desktop applications similar to iOS or Android. Also, the Flutter community is going so big and they have announced the hummingbird toolkit to create the web and desktop application just like you have a flutter for Android and iOS. Therefore, one code base or one technology knowledge will give you the power for 4 things: Android, iOS, Web, and Desktop. This is the coolest thing about flutter. Downsides of using Flutter and Its Solutions Can’t access the native capabilities There are some things that people don’t like in Flutter is that it's not really native because unlike native Android mobile app development or iOS mobile app development you cannot really access the native capabilities of the device of the system through dart code. It is partly true but what those people forget about is that you can actually write plug-ins for a flutter. You can do this really simple and also there are a bunch of amazing libraries that are already pre-written for you either by the flutter team themselves or by third-party developers. You can use these plugins or write your own plugins easily and access native functionality. It is really easy to write flutter plugins which will just have to code in Swift or objective-c and Android codes of Java and then call those plugins from your dart code. You can access native functionality without any kind of hassle. It's just really one step but even though you have to make one step how many times do you really need to create plugins yourself? The chances are that not that many times what you are creating more often is the UI that you are trying to display on the screen. You are doing something purely on the dart side for example communicating with an API that can be done purely through dart code. So really it's a pace to just use flutter and write a bit of plugin for when you need them for the native functionality and you are still going to save time even though. You need to create plugins which is like one more step in the development process but plugins are creating much less time than the time that you spend writing outer code. So really flutter is awesome in their regard to and you can absolutely access the negative capabilities of a device. Flutter Code is Messy One more objection that I hear people say very often is that Flutter code will become really messy. It's true some people build assumptions when they see the Flutter code for the first time. For example, flutter is capable of putting everything into just a single main .dart file. You could really put your whole app into one file and mix your UI code with your logic. We're getting the data from the database. You can basically smash everything into just one single file. The solution for that is just don't put everything into one single file. I know this idea is really revolutionary but it's true just don't make spaghetti code. It is not mandatory to put everything into just one file. You can easily create multiple files with clean architecture. Also, you can use the block pattern and can separate your code into multiple smaller classes. You can also use the Sahad principles of programming, use separation of concerns, use the single responsibility principle and you're going to be good to go. In this way, your code can remain really clean and without any kind of a mess. inside your codebase, all you need to do is to realize that even though you are dealing with Flutter you can leave the UI code to be displaying the UI code and you do not need to mix logic inside the UI code. Also, you can easily separate your codebase into multiple classes. You just need to be conscious of that as you are developing because as soon as you start mixing logic with your UI it's really hard to unite those two like paradigms of coding logic and UI. Therefore, you need to keep an eye on that from the very start. But, it's not that hard. Let’s Wrap Up There are many blogs out there saying that Flutter is not a mature technology but I can say that glitter is a mature technology that helps you build bigger applications. These are some important and powerful things that persuade you to make your next web or mobile applications on flutter. 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