Flutter App Development: Basics and Benefits

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Flutter App Development Basics and Benefits

• According to Statistas survey from last year,
  42 of software developers surveyed chose
  ReactJS as their preferable cross-platform mobile
  framework for app development. The noteworthy
  point is that this share of respondents stayed
  the same for 2019 and 2020.
• However, even more interesting is the difference
  in the percentage of developers who chose
  Flutter. It jumped by 9 to reach 39 in 2020
  from 30 in 2019.
• If you are new to the app development industry
  and dont know about Flutter, you are at the
  right place. Youll learn about Flutter, its
  advantages, and how to create a Magento 2 Flutter
  App in this post.
• What is Flutter?
• According to Flutters official site, Flutter is
  Googles UI toolkit for building beautiful,
  natively compiled applications for mobile, web,
  and desktop from a single codebase.
• In other words, it is a free and open-source
  mobile user interface framework that Google
  created and released in May 2017. It helps you
  create a native mobile application with just a
  single code.
• It refers to two things
• An SDK (Software Development Kit) is a collection
  of tools to help you develop applications. You
  can compile your code natively using these tools
  to develop apps in both iOS and Android systems.

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• A Framework is a library collection of reusable
  UI elements, including buttons, text inputs,
  sliders, etc., that you can personalize as per
  your needs.
• Flutter requires you to use Dart - Googles
  programming language to develop an app using it.
• Benefits of Using Flutter
• Over 2 million developers have already used
  Flutter as of spring last year and still
  counting. There are several advantages of using
  Flutter to develop a Magento 2 Flutter App.
• Uniform UI and Business Logic across All
  Platforms
• In general, all cross-platform frameworks provide
  a way to share codebase between platforms. On
  the other hand, Flutter allows the exchange of
  both UI code and UI itself between platforms.
• Unlike other cross-platform frameworks, Flutter
  doesnt require any platform-specific UI
  components to render the UI. Instead, it needs to
  show the application UI only a canvas to draw
  onto. This helps maintain consistency across
  different platforms without much hassle.
• Also, sharing the UI and business logic helps
  save time and effort for the developer.
• Reduced Coding Time - Faster Development
• Flutter has the hot reload feature. This
  feature helps you quickly review the changes you
  apply without losing the current app state. You
  can easily experiment and build UIs, add
  features, test them, and fix bugs.
• Thus, it helps reduce the overall app development
  time and enhances the app development processs
  speed.

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Expressive and Beautiful UIs To make an apps
look and interface expressive and engaging,
widgets should be attractive. They should also
be flexible, structural, interactive, and
customizable. Flutter has a rich collection of
widgets that you can use to create flexible and
expressive designs. Increased speed of
time-to-market Time to market (also called TTM or
time-to-market) is the period between the
conception of a new idea and its release in the
marketplace. You can also call it the time a team
takes to develop an idea, build a product, and
sell it in the market. Coming to Flutter
development, it is easier and quicker in
comparison to other cross-platform frameworks.
In fact, the person-hours you need to develop a
Magento 2 Flutter app is around half of the
person-hours you need for a native app. The
reason is that you dont need to develop the
same app separately for Android and iOS. This is
because Flutter doesnt require you to have any
platform-specific code to add any desired visuals
in your app. You can implement any 2D-based UI
without any need to interact with a native app
counterpart. Ideal for MVP Flutter is an ideal
choice for start-ups who want to develop MVPs
(Minimum Viable Products) to show to the
investors. As a Flutter mobile app looks and
behaves natively on Android and iOS, it gives
the investors a clear idea about your MVP. It
helps expedite the process of attracting
investments from potential investors. Support
for Complex Animated UI Flutter provides the
ability to customize virtually everything on the
screen irrespective of the complexity involved.
Though it is possible to customize UI on native
platforms, it is comparatively time-consuming.
On the other hand, Flutter makes the process of
UI customization highly flexible and versatile.
This helps perform shared element transitions,
shape/shadow/color customizations, and other
processes without straining yourself. We can
help you deploy a Flutter app! Large Support
Community Flutter Developer Community can help
answer all your questions and stay abreast of
every new and exciting development in Flutter.
You can interact with other developers, take
help, and learn more through Stack Overflow,
Gitter, Meetup, Flutter Community Slack,
r/Flutterdev on Reddit, and other platforms. This
helps make your app development learning fun and
easy.
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Over to You Flutter can be an ideal pick for
newbies and startups to develop an app due to
ease of coding and flexibility. We can help you
build a cross-platform Magento 2 Flutter app from
scratch. Our app development team has vast
hands-on experience who can understand your
business requirements and develop your
e-commerce app accordingly. You can also avail of
continuous support for app development from our
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