What is Flutter — Pros and Cons of Using Flutter

Claire D. Costa
Flutter Community
Published in
9 min readSep 11, 2019

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What is Flutter

This article was originally posted on https://blog.digitalogy.co/hire-flutter-developers-flutter-app-development-company/

Google has recently acquired a new software development kit (SDK), ‘Flutter.’ It has also started to make some waves in the market. Flutter can be used to make cross-platform application by writing apps in one codebase and then compiling for different platforms (Android and IOS). Due to this and host of other reasons, Flutter developers are in demand, and companies are looking to hire Flutter developers. However, the framework is very new, and you, as an employer, need to know a few things before you select the candidates.

What is Flutter?

Flutter was a startup initiated by YC in 2013, after which Google acquired it. It is an open-source framework which can develop cross-platform applications using one codebase. Hence Flutter Android development is very same as its IOS development. This makes the development of apps smooth, easy, and quick. The language used to code in flutter is Dart, developed by Google, and unique to Flutter.

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Claire D. Costa
Flutter Community

Content Crafter at Digitalogy which helps high growth businesses to connect with the top 5% of pre-screened software talent within 48 hours.