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Flutter vs Native App Development

 Building a cross-platform app is a tedious process. As usual google comes to rescue.Google has launched Flutter,a framework that can be used to build both android and iOS apps.

So What is Flutter?

Flutter is an open-source,mobile development framework developed by Google which uses single code-base to build apps for both android and iOS so we need not to maintain two code base seperately for android and iOS.

It used Dart as the programming language which was developed by Google(designed by Lars Bak and Kasper Lund).It can also be used to work with web,server and some IoT devices.It is quite easy to learn specially for Java developer as the syntex is somewhat similar to Java. Dart was developed with common developer tasks in mind and solving the problem the were faced by the developer when they were using the Java,Kotlin or any other language.


Features of Flutter

1) High Quality native interface:
Flutter is loaded with large number of widgets which can be easily used to construct some beautiful UI.

2) Increase in Productivity:
The same codebase is usable for both iOS and android which cuts the productivity time to half.

3) Fast Performance:
Hot Reload feature of flutter means the development of the app even more faster. Whatever the change we make to our app reflects directly in our app cutting repetitive Gradle Build times.


Can Flutter over the legacy of Native App Development?


Flutter is backed by google and it is also very important for google new Operating System Fuchasia. So definetely Flutter will improve by time. Still there are some important feature which are missing from Flutter like Maps,Video Support,OpenGL which can really hinders the development of an App.

Conclusion

Flutter is new in the market and it will take some time for the developers to gain their trust in Flutter. But being an Android developer you can't ignore Flutter.

My Opinion

For a person who is new to Android App Development first he/she must learn the native App development using Java and after having a good knowledge of it you can easily switch to Flutter.

For a person who have a good hand on Native App Development should try learning Flutter

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