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Flutter Tutorial
Our Flutter Tutorial provides basic and advanced
concepts of the Flutter framework. Flutter is a UI toolkit
for building fast, beautiful, natively compiled
applications for mobile, web, and desktop with one
programing language and single codebase. It is free
and open-source. Initially, it was developed from
Google and now manages by an ECMA standard.
Flutter apps use Dart programming language for
creating an app.
The first version of Flutter was announced in the year
2015 at the Dart Developer Summit. It was initially
known as codename Sky and can run on the Android
OS. On December 4, 2018, the first stable version of
the Flutter framework was released, denoting Flutter
1.0. The current stable release of the framework is
Flutter v1.9.1+hotfix.6 on October 24, 2019.
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What is Flutter?
In general, creating a mobile application is a very
complex and challenging task. There are many
frameworks available, which provide excellent features
to develop mobile applications. For developing mobile
apps, Android provides a native framework based on
Java and Kotlin language, while iOS provides a
framework based on Objective-C/Swift language. Thus,
we need two different languages and frameworks to
develop applications for both OS. Today, to overcome
form this complexity, there are several frameworks
have introduced that support both OS along with
desktop apps. These types of the framework are
known as cross-platform development tools.
The cross-platform development framework has the
ability to write one code and can deploy on the various
platform (Android, iOS, and Desktop). It saves a lot of
time and development efforts of developers. There are
several tools available for cross-platform development,
including web-based tools, such as Ionic from Drifty
Co. in 2013, Phonegap from Adobe, Xamarin from
Microsoft, and React Native form Facebook. Each of
these frameworks has varying degrees of success in
the mobile industry. In recent, a new framework has
introduced in the cross-platform development family
named Flutter developed from Google.
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Flutter is a UI toolkit for creating fast, beautiful, natively
compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop
with one programing language and single codebase. It
is free and open-source. It was initially developed from
Google and now manages by an ECMA standard.
Flutter apps use Dart programming language for
creating an app. The dart programming shares several
same features as other programming languages, such
as Kotlin and Swift, and can be trans-compiled into
JavaScript code.
Flutter is mainly optimized for 2D mobile apps that can
run on both Android and iOS platforms. We can also
use it to build full-featured apps, including camera,
storage, geolocation, network, third-party SDKs, and
more.
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What makes Flutter unique?
Flutter is different from other frameworks because it
neither uses WebView nor the OEM widgets that
shipped with the device. Instead, it uses its own high-
performance rendering engine to draw widgets. It also
implements most of its systems such as animation,
gesture, and widgets in Dart programing language that
allows developers to read, change, replace, or remove
things easily. It gives excellent control to the
developers over the system.
Features of Flutter
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Flutter gives easy and simple methods to start building
beautiful mobile and desktop apps with a rich set of
material design and widgets. Here, we are going to
discuss its main features for developing the mobile
framework.
Open-Source: Flutter is a free and open-source
framework for developing mobile applications.
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Cross-platform: This feature allows Flutter to write the
code once, maintain, and can run on different
platforms. It saves the time, effort, and money of the
developers.
Hot Reload: Whenever the developer makes changes
in the code, then these changes can be seen
instantaneously with Hot Reload. It means the changes
immediately visible in the app itself. It is a very handy
feature, which allows the developer to fix the bugs
instantly.
Accessible Native Features and SDKs: This feature
allows the app development process easy and
delightful through Flutter's native code, third-party
integration, and platform APIs. Thus, we can easily
access the SDKs on both platforms.
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Minimal code: Flutter app is developed by Dart
programming language, which uses JIT and AOT
compilation to improve the overall start-up time,
functioning and accelerates the performance. JIT
enhances the development system and refreshes the
UI without putting extra effort into building a new one.
Widgets: The Flutter framework offers widgets, which
are capable of developing customizable specific
designs. Most importantly, Flutter has two sets of
widgets: Material Design and Cupertino widgets that
help to provide a glitch-free experience on all
platforms.
Advantage of Flutter
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Flutter fulfills the custom needs and requirements for
developing mobile applications. It also offers many
advantages, which are listed below.
It makes the app development process extremely
fast because of the hot-reload feature. This
feature allows us to change or update the code
are reflected as soon as the alterations are
made.
It provides the smoother and seamless scrolling
experiences of using the app without much
hangs or cuts, which makes running applications
faster in comparison to other mobile app
development frameworks.
Flutter reduces the time and efforts of testing.
As we know, flutter apps are cross-platform so
that testers do not always need to run the same
set of tests on different platforms for the same
app.
It has an excellent user interface because it uses
a design-centric widget, high-development
tools, advanced APIs, and many more features.
It is similar to a reactive framework where the
developers do not need to update the UI content
manually.
It is suitable for MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
apps because of its speedy development
process and cross-platform nature.
Disadvantages of Flutter
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We have seen earlier that the Flutter has many
advantages, but it also contains some disadvantages,
which are given below.
The Flutter is a comparatively new language that
needs continuous integration support through
the maintenance of scripts.
It provides very limited access to SDK libraries. It
means a developer does not have a lot of
functionalities to create a mobile application.
Such types of functionalities need to be
developed by the Flutter developer themselves.
The Flutter apps do not support the browser. It
only supports Android and iOS platforms.
It uses Dart programming for coding, so a
developer needs to learn new technologies.
However, it is easy to learn for developers.
History of Flutter
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Flutter is a free and open-source UI software
development kit introduced by Google. It is used to
build applications for Android, iOS, Windows, and the
web. The first version of Flutter was announced in the
year 2015 at the Dart Developer Summit. It was
initially known as codename "Sky" and can run on the
Android OS. After the announcement of Flutter, the first
Flutter Alpha version (v-0.06) was released in May
2017.
Later, during the keynote of Google Developer days in
Shanghai, Google launched the second preview of
Flutter in September 2018 that was the last big
release before Flutter 1.0 version. On December 4,
2018, the first stable version of the Flutter framework
was released at the Flutter Live event, denoting Flutter
1.0. The current stable release of the framework is
Flutter v1.9.1+hotfix.6 on October 24, 2019.
Prerequisite
Before learning Flutter in-depth, you must have a
sound understanding of Dart programming, Android
Studio, and web scripting languages such as HTML,
JavaScript, and CSS.
Audience
We have developed this tutorial for beginners and
professionals both who want to build a career around
Flutter or seamlessly learn the precepts of Flutter.
There are a lot of topics available that will help you to
learn Flutter technology easily.
Problems
We assure you that you will not find any problem with
our Flutter tutorial. But, if you find any mistake, you can
post it in our comment section.
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