Build with Flutter
According to the data from Statista, the global app economy is projected to grow from 1.3 trillion dollars in 2016 to 6.3 trillion dollars by 2021 with a CAGR of 37% year over year growth. The growing app industry focuses on making the app useful and boosting its usage among its users, which is achieved by ensuring that the app is consistent across multiple devices and has a beautiful design.
However, it is often a matter of concern, how to deliver a consistent experience and if there’s a need for separate designs for iOS and Android. To address this, seamless cross-platform app development with Flutter offers a high-quality experience.
What is Flutter?
Flutter is created by Google as an open-source UI software development kit. It is a cross-platform framework that uses a single codebase to create apps for different devices. This leverages experience of developers to get a flavor of the hybrid mobile app development world, where they can develop an app for both iOS and Android with just one code.
Since the launch of Flutter in May 2017, it has constantly evolved and gained popularity. The latest release Flutter 2.5 happened on September 2021.
Flutter 2.5 is live!
Flutter 2.5 is big. It comes with a handful of elements including performance improvements, DevTools updates, new support features such as screen support for Android, v3 support, adding dependencies, a new app template to enhance the real-world Flutter app experience, and much more.
Let’s consider the Flutter app example: My BMW app
My BMW app is built for both iOS and Android using Flutter. The app allows multiple functions such as users can check remotely about their vehicle’s status example fuel and battery’s charge, and location of the vehicle. The app also notifies the car owners about the technical maintenance of their vehicles. The apps offer a remote 3D view that allows viewing the area around the car and locking and unlocking doors.
Flutter has enabled the creation of a lasting digital experience for the My BMW app which has replaced BMW Connected app.
Let’s reflect on the benefits that Flutter provides.
Why use Flutter?
High-quality Experience
Because of its cross-platform app development framework, you can build excellent apps with stunning and creative visuals on your mobile, web, and desktop that focus on performance and end-user experience. Developers can run codes without a halt.
Fast Development
Flutter has its own rendering engine. Developers can perform a lot more with the apps than with other platforms. Flutter manages the use of Skia for rendering itself. You can fix bugs quickly and perform experiments fast too. It is all possible through Flutter's customized rich set of widgets for both IOS and Android that allows building native app interface within minutes.
Productive in Nature
The Hot Reload feature allows the developers quick development, debugging app alongside and run faster quality assurance process. You don’t need to wait for the app to build and see the effects of the changes you implement in the app in real-time.
Open Source Environment
The code is published on GitHub with an open-source MIT license. It contains hundreds of third-party packages covering everything from encryption to sharing image manipulation to connectivity applications. This results in increased speed of the app.
When to use
1. You can write both your iOS and Android app in a flutter from a single codebase, it can pile directly to native code for exceptional user interaction.
2. You can prototype your app to test it quickly in the market.
3. You need to bring your flutter app to the other platform, you already have an iOS or Android application so you can use flutter to build the other app, and if you want you can even merge.
4. You get the ability to add to your existing applications for which you can resurface or create a brand new element to the app page, simply incorporate flutter code into the native code.
From an e-commerce business to automotive, Flutter is gaining popularity due to its reliable and trustworthy UI toolkit to leverage your business and create a unique customer experience. Psmorfia can help you build customized stunning Flutter apps to empower your business ensuring visual consistency, high app speed, and performance.
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