Kickstart your journey in Flutter!
Let’s first understand what is Flutter?
Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google. It is used to develop cross platform applications for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, Google Fuchsia, and the web from a single codebase. It was first described in 2015, and was released in May 2017.
Why Flutter?
Flutter has transformed the app development process. It allows you to create a native mobile application with only one codebase. This means that you can use one programming language and one codebase to create two different apps (for iOS and Android).
How to build apps with Flutter?
To build apps with Flutter, we use Dart language. It enables us to create speedy apps for any platform.
There are three things that make Dart unique:
1. Dart is great for writing User Interfaces.
2. Dart is very productive as the Dart Virtual Machine powers Hot Reload that lets us make changes in our code and instantly see the effect in a running app and compile directly to native code to provide fantastic performance for deployed apps.
3. Dart is fast on mobile, desktop, web and the server.
As a Flutter developer, you should know Flutter’s Five Foundational Pillars:
At its core, Flutter is built to be:
- Fast i.e. it compiles our source code to machine code
- Productive i.e. it hot reloads to increase efficiency
- Beautiful i.e. we can express our brand at the forefront
- Open i.e. we can join a global community of developers
- Portable i.e. it ships wherever we need it to be
To summarise, Flutter is a fantastic framework for creating cross-platform apps with a single codebase. It has been observed that Flutter is the fastest growing skill among software engineers and it’s used by companies all around the world to build apps that have hundreds of millions of users.
Here are some good resources to learn Flutter:
I hope this article has given you some insight into why you should learn Flutter and what it has in store for you in the upcoming years.
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