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Wireframes, Mockups, Prototypes: How they orchestrate the design process together?

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Wireframes, Mockups, Prototypes: How they orchestrate the design process together?

It’s a multilayer process of designing any product, especially for a website or an app. It’s highly desirable to follow all the stages to make sure you have a professional product

By now, I’m sure you know that we are going to talk about design processes, particularly web and app designs. I will briefly tell you about all the stages of the mobile app/web design process.

  1. Wireframing
  2. Creating Mockups
  3. Prototyping

What is Wireframe?

Wireframes are low-fidelity blueprints of a mobile application or a website. They depict what goes where in the product design, but only as a basic draft, without focusing on details, color, shape, or size.

Simply put, a wireframe is a sketch by the designer. Its purpose is to show the structure of the app or a website with basic elements and content placement. Designers can bring order to scattered ideas and present them schematically in a wireframe.

What does a wireframe consist of?

Wireframes present the products at its inception stage. It shows the logic of the website or mobile app and consists of:

:: Boxes or circles

:: Lines

:: Text

Though there are no set solutions that are universally applicable, there are still a few things that should be considered. A good wireframe is the one that is created with reference to the specific features of the product, be it a mobile app or web.

Why is it needed?

Wireframes visually help to create the website or an app essentially easier by pairing the entire product and focus on the functionalities.

We as an experienced software house, believe that the client needs to be educated about how the proposed app or the website will function. A written or a verbal explanation of the product, the major functionalities stay down to their imaginations, which will lead to more error. It’s here where the wireframes can help in squaring these circles.

Recommended Wireframe tool: AdobeXd, InVision Studio, Sketch.

A WireFrame Example

Okay, but what is a Mockup?

We just saw how a wireframe is a simple draft or a sketch. Well, then comes the next part, lending colors to the sketch. A mockup is a transformation of the schematic layout into a more colorful and static representation of the future product.

A mockup is not just the blueprint, it’s the end look of the app or the website. Mockups are often confused as Wireframes. The main difference between the both is that mockups don’t skip details: on the contrary, they are all about details, showing the feel of an actual app or website and showing how all the elements function together.

When to use a Mockup?

The mockups can be viewed of the highest value during certain stages of the app or web design. Anyone can use a mockup when you want to:

  • experiment with the look of the product.
  • decide the product’s color, font, visual styles.
  • present the design interface to potential users or stakeholders.
  • decide your brand identity.

Why is it important?

Mockups fill the visual details of a wireframe, like colors, font, graphics, and layout. The best part about mockup is that it gives you quite a good idea of how the app or website will finally look upon its completion. Comparing to wireframes, which is just a visual draft, a mockup is much closer to the final version.

Also on the development side, a mockup provides a detailed specification of the product. It also creates an understanding of the product because you see how the user is going to see it.

Recommended Mockup Tools: Balsamiq, Mockplus, Adobe Xd

Mockup

And then comes Prototyping

A prototype is a highly-detailed functional version of your application or the website. It may or may not coincide 100% with the final product, but the similarity must be really high.

Even though prototypes are not put into code yet, they look like actual applications. Users can interact with the app and can easily test the user flow.

What advantages do you get with prototyping?

There are tons of benefits of working with an interactive model before building an MVP. You get more one more chance to check the product inside out and finally confirm or reject the variants of the product.

Exploring new ideas and identifying product Improvements

The process of prototyping provides opportunities for new idea explorations early on in the development process. A prototype is the product foundation that is continually improved until the app meets the business goal.

Cost Saving

Starting the app-building phase with prototyping can save a lot of money in the long run. Solving the problems, in the beginning, is always less expensive than towards the end.

Recommended Prototyping Tools: Figma, Balsamiq, InVision.

A quick example of creating a prototype using Adobe Xd

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How do Wireframes, Mockups, and Prototypes stage the design process

A good design will always find all three stages in the design process — creating a wireframe, mockup, and prototype. Though all three of these stages look similar, they hold an important role in the development of a well-designed user-centric product.

Wireframes provide a structure of the product to the developers and let them understand the product architecture and best coding solution. The product design should be well structured and should gradually translate to a mockup.

The stage when you get to finalize your design and see how structural elements turn into colors, buttons, content layout. Ultimately leading to prototyping. you get to feel what the user will experience on the app and interact with it. Such an approach reduces misunderstanding and unbudgeted expenses.

Why does flutterDevs recommend a prototype before development?

At FlutterDevs, We put attention to details in designing Mock-up, Wireframes, and prototypes. All the revisions and changes are done in mockup and prototype. Once the prototype is ready, the client has an exact idea of the application and he can see the animation and navigation of each and every screen to get the real feel of the app, only the data is a dummy. Once the prototype is approved, the process of development starts and it really goes smooth and saves a lot of time in development.

We recommend getting a working prototype before the application development starts. Also, we have a way to export all the graphics from adobe xd for different resolutions of mobile phones and tablets and it saves a lot of time for developers in the development.

If you are planning to have your own mobile application, website, custom web app designed by a professional design team, or have any type of query or concern regarding its concept, technical know-how, the best way to get it done then don’t hesitate.

From Our Parent Company Aeologic

Aeologic Technologies is a leading AI-driven digital transformation company in India, helping businesses unlock growth with AI automation, IoT solutions, and custom web & mobile app development. We also specialize in AIDC solutions and technical manpower augmentation, offering end-to-end support from strategy and design to deployment and optimization.

Trusted across industries like manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, BFSI, and smart cities, Aeologic combines innovation with deep industry expertise to deliver future-ready solutions.

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Complete Guide to Building Flutter Apps in 2026

Shaiq Khan
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Complete Guide to Building Flutter Apps in 2026

There are over 3 billion smartphone users across the world, it’s no surprise that the mobile app industry is thriving. App usage and smartphone penetration are still growing at a steady rate, without any signs of slowing down anywhere in the future. Now factor 1.3 billion tablet users as well.

We use our phones at home, offices, before sleeping, while traveling, on the road, while eating, basically throughout the day, all day. And 90% of our time on the phone, we use apps.

This alone is encouraging enough for anyone who owns an app or thinking of developing an app. This article is for the people who are developing their app or thinking of developing their app.

Earlier in the days, when smartphones started gaining tractions all over the world, apps were built in a very specific way. Not a lot of choices were available.

But now, you have a plethora of options to build an app. From frameworks, templates, components, to hybrid app options. How do you decide what’s for you?

Being the best mobile app development company, we have built our fair share of apps. We have hit a lot of stumbling blocks. But that doesn’t mean you should too. That’s why we’ve put together seven most important things to consider before you start your mobile app development. Let’s see each of these, on by one.

Let us list down the points in firstly before going in deep-dive in detail :

Know Your Audience

Choose The Platform

Backend

Payment Integration

UI/UX Design

Find Your Development Partner

Perfectly Market your App

: Know Your Audience

Just because you’ve got a brilliant idea of a mobile app, doesn’t guarantee success. But only a three-word sentence can turn everything around, “Know Your Audience.” Most of the ideas are focused on the specific functionalities of the app rather than a specific audience. It goes without saying, that knowing your targeted audience is one of the most important things to consider before starting to build the app. After all, its the users who are responsible for your app’s success.

Factors like the age group of your targeted users, the country which you are targeting, gender, occupation, the interest of the people must be considered for the app design. Your app might have technically sound features, the success of it completely depends on how it engages the end-user.

: Choose The Platform

After you know your audience, the next thing you have to decide is what platform your app will be available on? In the mobile device world, Android and iOS are the two most dominant platforms. So the choice boils down to these two.

To develop a mobile app for a specific platform, you have to use a language that is natively supported by the platform. For example, android apps are developed with Java or Kotlin and iOS apps are based on Swift or Objective-C. These types of apps are called Native Apps.

Now, you must be wondering whether it’s possible to build an app for both the platforms by using one language or not. Yes, it possible. Those types of apps are called Hybrid Apps. With the evolution of technology, the community realized that it would be easier and much convenient to build an app for multiple platforms using only one language. As a result, cross-platform frameworks were born: Flutter, ReactNative, Xamarin, etc.

Each of the options has its own advantages and disadvantages. As a business owner, it’s very important to understand the difference between them.

: Backend

Looking at the present mobile application trends, we see more and more applications today are driven by APIs. At the same time, not all the mobile apps you build need a custom backend. You can handle the entire application with the local database and these apps do not need any kind of backend support.

: Payment Integration

In today’s world, online shopping and e-commerce have become an integral part of our lives. It’s unfortunate that while eCommerce and apps have become more and more futuristic and sophisticated, the delivery operatives have become more and more imperceptive. However, we still trust them and we still shop. This is the one main reason what gave birth to integrating payment gateways into mobile applications, allowing customers to pay for services, pay their bills, and so on, right at the moment.

Someone who’s building their app can’t underestimate the true importance of a payment gateway built into their application. This is a helping hand in skyrocketing sales to the moon.

: UI/UX Design

User experience is one of the most important features when it comes to the digital world. Your mobile app defines how a user feels and thinks about your business & services. It is about making something valuable, easy to use, and compelling for your target users.

Hence, UI/UX holds a vital role in today’s mobile app world. This element of a business mobile app development is really important because 99% of the time users do not come back to the app if it is not user-friendly. Having created a good design, the app will bring interface clarity to the user.

If you are inadequate to provide a quality mobile app, it may end up hurting your brand image. This is the reason why top mobile app development companies spend more time on this part of the application.

: Find Your Development Partner

The final & crucial decision is to think about whether you want a professional or you would like to create your own mobile app. The question summarize the infrastructure and financial spending in both the case.

The biggest barrier to building a mobile app is that not everyone knows how to code. In fact, the majority of the people who want to build their apps are not coders. In all this probability, you may be included in this as well. There are two ways you can go about it: Learn how to code, take mobile app development courses, basically doing what every beginner does.

But, that’s not even the main issue here. Think about building an app like building your home. When you want to build your home, of course, you want to build it according to your specifications, just exactly how you like it. But do you need to learn the skills and techniques needed to construct a house? of course not. You will find people that you trust, you will tell them your vision, designs, and plans. They will build your house just exactly how you like it but with more experience and faster than you ever could.

Exactly like that, an app development firm will improve your business engagement by targeting the requisite market & audiences. Besides, it will help in a comfortable and hassle-free user experience, which in turn gives us a profitable income generation accompanied by the free online promotion for our business. Whatever you choose, you must be sure of what you intend to achieve with the mobile app and how it will drive your business for.

: Perfectly Market your App

It is just as important to market an app amongst your target users. Partly to set your foot right in the app store and slightly to sway audiences by letting them know that there’s something critical in store for them. Make sure you perform A/B testing for efficient conversions.

Marketers often fall trap to commonly used techniques like undertaking SEO activities for app market and social media marketing. Instead, it is wise to master the art of mobile marketing hack and get things right for your business.

Conclusion

Anyone who wants to build their app has already spent hundreds of hours thinking about the concept of their app and even more on the implementation of all of your ideas and concepts. Finally, your app is now ready. You have your masterpiece ready to launch. However, your work is not finished yet. There is a very popular misunderstanding that as soon as the app is deployed on the stores, it is done forever. But practically, it’s not how it works. If your app is running smoothly and stably right now, that doesn’t mean it will always be so. App’s requirement changes with change in time.

Building an app is one thing, and maintaining an app is another. Post-deployment maintenance is the most crucial part of any app’s success. From handling bugs, making regular updates to taking user feedback and implementing them, it takes a serious vigilance and an organized system in place.

If you are planning to have your own mobile application, website, custom web app designed by a professional design team, or have any type of query or concern regarding its concept, technical know-how, the best way to get it done then don’t hesitate.

From Our Parent Company Aeologic

Aeologic Technologies is a leading AI-driven digital transformation company in India, helping businesses unlock growth with AI automation, IoT solutions, and custom web & mobile app development. We also specialize in AIDC solutions and technical manpower augmentation, offering end-to-end support from strategy and design to deployment and optimization.

Trusted across industries like manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, BFSI, and smart cities, Aeologic combines innovation with deep industry expertise to deliver future-ready solutions.

Feel free to connect with us:
And read more articles from FlutterDevs.com

FlutterDevs team of Flutter developers to build high-quality and functionally-rich apps. Hire flutter developer for your cross-platform Flutter mobile app project on an hourly or full-time basis as per your requirement! You can connect with us on Facebook, GitHub, Twitter, and LinkedIn for any flutter related queries.

We welcome feedback and hope that you share what you’re working on using #FlutterDevs. We truly enjoy seeing how you use Flutter to build beautiful, interactive web experiences!.

Need expert help building your Flutter app? Talk to FlutterExperts for architecture, development, and consulting support.

How to decide if building a mobile app is worth it in 2026

Shaiq Khan
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How to decide if building a mobile app is worth it in 2026

Today, people rely on their mobile apps for almost everything that they do every day. From communicating and networking to managing their finances, handling businesses, and making purchases. This is basically one of the biggest reasons why businesses find it crucial to build their brand value and a loyal audience.

And if you think, that mobile apps are for big-name brands like Amazon and Walmart, you are wrong. more and more small and medium-sized businesses are adopting new mobile trends. In fact, you will notice a lot of small businesses you daily interact with, have their own specialized mobile app. Businesses with this mindset are always ahead of their game when it comes to marketing.

How does a mobile app help your business?

Purchasing goods and services online have become a normal daily practice for millions of people all around the world. According to a recent study, it has been projected that around 65% of internet users will are expected to make at least one purchase online during the calendar year 2021.

When you have such a huge part of the market making purchases online, you can’t afford to miss out on a mobile application, or even a mobile website. Nowadays, everybody has their personal computers in their pockets. So allowing the users to access the essential services from their phones should be a high priority.

Mobile apps give your business a constant presence on the customer’s phone. Apps also increase sales by offering your customers a more convenient way to browse and shop, allowing them to make purchases from wherever they are. Businesses can even use their apps to alert their customers to new deals, products, and events.

Planning is the key

We can go on and on about how mobile apps are important and how can they boost our businesses and skyrocketing sales and whatnot. But unfortunately, it’s not that easy because, despite the considerable market potential, your app will not automatically be a success. Since an app is basically nothing more than a marketing measure, you should also plan in a similar way. You need to think and plan in advance what are you going to achieve from this app. Set goals to be targeted in a channelized manner. Very different objectives are conceivable, including:

  • – Improvement of customer loyalty
  • – Building a new distribution channel
  • – Increase brand awareness
  • – Capturing customer data
  • – Providing new services to customers

So an app can be a very versatile marketing tool, but it also needs to be targeted to make it work. So, define how you want to measure your goals in order to put your app on the front foot.

Aspects to consider in app development for your business

When it all boils down to the actual development of the app, most of the startups/companies rely on external service providers or app development agencies such as app development companies, either because they lack the necessary know-how or the internal IT department would be overloaded with such a project. You are not just hiring a development company, you are choosing a technological partner for the success of your business. So, be sure to partner with companies that understand your vision of the app and what value it has to add in your customers’ daily life. Of course, they should meet all the necessary technical and analytical requirements for developing the app. Ideally, they should have experience in developing apps for your industry, and be able to develop apps for the popular iOS and Android operating systems. In addition, the app development companies should bring design and graphics expertise and experience in marketing.

It’s never only about having an app. The app should have a contemporary design that fits the CI / CD of the company and therefore come in a user-friendly layout. Thus, the user recognizes the brand in the app again and sees the app as a modern development step. The app should bring an advantage to the user and be intuitive. Otherwise, if the benefits and functionality are not immediately obvious, the users will be disappointed.

Also, keep in mind that developing an app can be a complex and sometimes lengthy affair, depending on how complex the features or specification are a part of your app. As a result, the costs cannot always be determined exactly in advance — because of unexpected development problems, these could also be higher than planned.

Also, be careful to never get stuck on something. App development is a continuous learning process for an entrepreneur. You may come up with new ideas.

Understand your cost of development

Alright, we’ve established that companies do succeed from launching and app. But we can’t throw away the basic business principles. If the cost of developing the app is too much to generate a return on the investment, then it’s probably not worth it for you. And you don’t also want to cut too much budget and develop an app which doesn’t serve the purpose

There are many ways you can develop the app, two of those are by hiring freelancers or by hiring a software development agency/company. A freelancer usually will work on one particular part of your app, so hiring multiple freelancers will end up costing too much.

On the other hand, a software development agency is one common ground for all your needs in the app and are easier to hold accountable and is more reliable. Therefore, paying more will generally yield better results.

No matter what you choose, here is a breakdown of the mobile app development cost, so you could understand what you are paying for.

:: UX Design

User experience is the most important aspect of your app and there are no doubts about it. It defines everything that the user sees, how they interact with the app. Given that there are millions of apps, the design has to be the greatest way for your app to stand out, especially if your competitors also have their own apps.

Since UX design is such an important part of your app, it’s understandable why it’s also the main part of the mobile app development cost. All of this to ensure that users actually like what they see and will come back. 90% of the businesses who have got success using the mobile app, happened because of the successful design.

:: Back-End

UX design and everything else a user interacts with is called the front-end. The back-end is the exact opposite, i.e. everything that happens behind when a customer interacts with the app. This is something that the customer doesn’t see.

The back-end includes the application itself, the database, and the server which hosts the database. Once you interact with the app, it sends data to the database and it can be retrieved later if necessary.

:: Security

Security is also part of the back-end, but it’s an important one, therefore it might have a big impact on the mobile app development cost. Your app may require users to register and log in to access different services. Therefore it’s important to keep this information secure. Customer’s data is the backbone of any company and getting it stolen can put a big strain on a company’s finances. That’s why it’s very important to consider investing in some additional security layers.

:: Maintenance

Developing and deploying the app is not everything. Times keep changing and so does the customer’s needs and requirements. Post-deployment maintenance is very important for the continuous growth of the app. From fixing the bugs and updating new features and functionalities, everything comes under the cost of maintenance.

Lastly…

Is the app worth it for your business? to be honest there’s no right or wrong answer to this question. Just like every company’s executive decisions, this too depends on company to company.

With that being said, I personally think that most of you would benefit a lot from developing the app from your business. Just make sure you have a relevant and well thought reason and goals behind getting your app developed.

If you are also planning to have your own mobile application, website, custom web app designed by a professional design team, or have any type of query or concern regarding its concept, technical know-how, the best way to get it done then don’t hesitate.

From Our Parent Company Aeologic

Aeologic Technologies is a leading AI-driven digital transformation company in India, helping businesses unlock growth with AI automation, IoT solutions, and custom web & mobile app development. We also specialize in AIDC solutions and technical manpower augmentation, offering end-to-end support from strategy and design to deployment and optimization.

Trusted across industries like manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, BFSI, and smart cities, Aeologic combines innovation with deep industry expertise to deliver future-ready solutions.

Feel free to connect with us:
And read more articles from FlutterDevs.com

FlutterDevs team of Flutter developers to build high-quality and functionally-rich apps. Hire flutter developer for your cross-platform Flutter mobile app project on an hourly or full-time basis as per your requirement! You can connect with us on Facebook, GitHub, Twitter, and LinkedIn for any flutter related queries.

We welcome feedback and hope that you share what you’re working on using #FlutterDevs. We truly enjoy seeing how you use Flutter to build beautiful, interactive web experiences!.

Need expert help building your Flutter app? Talk to FlutterExperts for architecture, development, and consulting support.

How is UI/UX Design Important for an App

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How is UI/UX Design Important for an App

There are millions of mobile apps on the app stores today that gets around 200 billion downloads each year. While only a few have been successful and others find it extremely hard to strive in this highly competitive market. But there is always that one thing which is common in all the successful apps. And that is the look and feel of the app.

A visually appealing and engaging mobile app is mostly a result of creating an effective User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI). In this era of digitization, where mobile and its related technologies are gaining worldwide popularity, your mobile app has to have an interactive and intuitive user interface.

We are here to deeply understand how UI & UX Design of your app is important for its success, but before we do that, you need to know what UX and UI are and how they function.

What is a User Interface (UI) of an App?

I’m sure you’ve heard of it a number of times, but do you know what it exactly is?

A User Interface (UI) ap an app is basically the appearance of the app when it interacts with the user. And it’s not just navigation menu’s, there’s a lot more to it which we will know right now.

UI design is not just about how it appears, but it’s also about how the product functions. UI includes the implementations of navigation and call to action buttons so that the user doesn’ t have to struggle with understanding what they should do next, rather just make a smooth flow.

An effective UI design of an app is the one that helps the user instinctively figure out all its features, functions, and usage in order to successfully serve the purpose of their use.

What makes a great UI Design?

Responsiveness

If your app is functioning slow and giving an irregular response pattern, consider removing it. Because one thing a good UI does not cause is the delay in the functioning of the app or slowing down the user flow. A great UI informs the user of all ongoing activities, for instance, when any page is loading, when a process is completed, the purchase has been confirmed, etc.

Familiarity

A lot of users get confused and reject an app if they don’t find familiarity with features like navigations and call for action. It happens with everyone, it’s a general human tendency to lean towards familiarity.

It’s good to experiment, but not to an extent that it confuses the end user.

Consistency

Consistency in the interface design across the application enables the user to track patterns. If any user quickly understands how certain parts of the interface works, then they should easily be able to identify other similar patterns to navigate to other functions of the app.

What is a User Experience (UX) of an app

A User Experience comprises of human feelings, perceptions, emotions, and preferences during and after using a mobile application.

When an app is in the development phase, the designer determines and gather feedback from the testers to resolve and provide a better solution in terms of design.

What makes a great UX

A great UX in an app can be determined by how long a user spends time in the app to complete the entire flow.

For instance, in an e-commerce app, a user tries to make a purchase. the amount of time it takes the user from adding the product to completing the transaction is what determines how good the UX of that app is.

An impressive UX design is the result of the competitive analysis done during research by the designer.

Key Elements of an Effective UI/UX

An effective UI/UX structure requires users to stay and help businesses to eventually gain loyal customers.

Here are some of the basic elements of an effective UI/UX of a mobile application that you should follow:

Make the App faster

An efficient and effective UI design doesn’t consume time while loading or navigating from option to option. Remember, the longer the app takes to load features and to navigate, the attention span of a user on the app decreases.

As interactive as possible

An interactive app is any dater way better than any non-interactive one, and that’s a fact. When the app allows the user to interact, it creates a connection between them. An interactive app is the one where navigations between windows are quick and easy.

Platform-specific designs

There is a massive difference between the Android app UI design and an iOS app UI design. An effective UI has to consider the way both platforms are designed on the device level. The UX design of these two different platforms also differ.

What is required for a designer is to understand both Material Design Human Interface Design in addition to the element that separates them from each other.

The Importance of a good UI/UX design

Most developers create an app with a stunning performance but fail to focus on the designing which eventually leads to failure of the app. There has to be kept a balance between the functionality and the UI/UX of the app.

To get to the know importance of the UI/UX, let’s take a look at some of the points below:

Captivates Users

When users open an app, the app has just a few seconds to leave an impression on them. The user will only decide to continue using the app if the design of the app is compelling enough. The next major factor is engagement. If the user finds it gripping only then they will navigate further on the app.

Conserves time and cost

If you invest your money in a magnificent UI/UX design, there is very little chance that your customers will discover any trouble or difficulties using your application. A flawless product will not require a frequent update and thus, help you in saving time and money.

Enhanced customers satisfaction & improved ROI

When an app has an impressive design, it presents the customers with catchy content and easy navigation, making them satisfied with their usage of the app. A pleased customer will recommend the app to others which will lead to increased customer and hence increases the ROI of your business.

Some of our best design in 2020 and beyond

:: UPI Payment App

:: E-Commerce App

:: Care Giver App

Parting Thoughts

The UI/UX is the most critical aspect of a robust and good quality mobile application. The coordination between UI and UX is a way to achieve the desired results.

In the current times, the designers and developers carry out intensive research to identify all sorts of issues and make an attractive product for the users.

If you were unaware of this, all this long, it’s time to pad up the designers and let them breathe into your dream mobile application.

If you are planning to have your own mobile application, website, custom web app or have any type of query or concern regarding its concept, technical know-how, the best way to get it done then don’t hesitate.

From Our Parent Company Aeologic

Aeologic Technologies is a leading AI-driven digital transformation company in India, helping businesses unlock growth with AI automation, IoT solutions, and custom web & mobile app development. We also specialize in AIDC solutions and technical manpower augmentation, offering end-to-end support from strategy and design to deployment and optimization.

Trusted across industries like manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, BFSI, and smart cities, Aeologic combines innovation with deep industry expertise to deliver future-ready solutions.

Feel free to connect with us:
And read more articles from FlutterDevs.com.

FlutterDevs team of Flutter developers to build high-quality and functionally-rich apps. Hire flutter developer for your cross-platform Flutter mobile app project on an hourly or full-time basis as per your requirement! You can connect with us on Facebook, GitHub, Twitter, and LinkedIn for any flutter related queries.

We welcome feedback and hope that you share what you’re working on using #FlutterDevs. We truly enjoy seeing how you use Flutter to build beautiful, interactive web experiences!.

Related: Important Dart Concepts In Flutter

Need expert help building your Flutter app? Talk to FlutterExperts for architecture, development, and consulting support.

Progressive Web App(PWA) in Flutter

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Progressive Web App(PWA) in Flutter

In this article, we will learn how progressive web app is special and what makes it crucial when it comes to making an effect on business and how to build it In Flutter. Before learning PWA and their — pros and cons. Let us have an outlook about the — Progressive Web Apps (PWA)

What are Progressive Web Apps

Progressive Web Apps are like having qualities of web and app at the same time, web and app have their own and different capabilities, for example, we see for web, it is a mix of ubiquity across all the devices and operating systems and important fact is its user-centered security model, specification and implementation is not controlled by any specific company or organization which makes it special, Web applications can reach anyone, anywhere, on any device with a single codebase.

While Native applications are known for being rich and reliable they have their own standalone experience, Native application feels like a part of the device they are run on as you can read and write files from the local system and also with data stored on the device like contacts, calendar. Easily access hardware connected via USB, Serial, or Bluetooth. So will have awesome user experience if you compare with the web.

If we look at both the platforms in different aspects such as capability and reach then native apps best in capability while web apps are best in the reach.

So where does the Progressive web app exists?

Progressive Web Apps are designed, built, and enhanced with advance and modern APIs to deliver which consist of qualities of both native app and web apps, such as native-like capabilities, reliability, on any device with a single codebase, installability and reaching anyone, anywhere.

This was a go through sections of Pwa but let’s check how its market is growing

Facts :

As you know humans have a tendency to check a comparative study and numbers up and down to believe, so for information Companies which have launched Progressive Web Apps have seen some impressive results. For example, Tweeter registered a 65% increase in pages per session, 75% more Tweets, and a 20 % decrease in bounce rate, all while reducing the size of their app in by over 97 %. After switching to a PWA, Nikkei saw 2.3 times more organic traffic, 58% more subscriptions, and 49% more daily active users. Hulu replaced their native desktop experience with a Progressive Web App and saw a 27% increase in return visits.

It was an introduction of Progressive Web APP now we are going to understand its basic implementation :

Why PWA?

You might be wondering the community going gaga over it, if we can hold all versions like android, ios, web separately then why we need it? so the reason behind it is if the user wants to use your without installing it and if users want to run a web version of it on mobile then PWA is the option that can give the full experience of APP. As you can observe various sites give an option on ads to open their app.

Developing PWA in Flutter

As there are many options to develop a Progressive Web App but the thing which makes Flutter well suited for this is its availability over all platforms. As we know Flutter is a cross-platform app development toolkit to develop an app, you can deploy your app on platforms like Android, iOS, web. which makes it stronger in terms of availability and reach with higher performance and responsiveness. The intention behind developing PWA is quite the same if you observe what flutter does. So it would be best to go with flutter if you want to develop your app with PWA.

Implementation

System Requirement :

  • Flutter SDK
  • Install Chrome

Implementation of Progressive Web Apps requires a web app to make it happen so first you need to set is up for web

Setup for Web

first, you need to run it on the master channel, for this, you need to run a command

flutter channel master

it may take some time then run the following commands :

flutter doctor -v

It will show some messages so you can check if you have required setup :

for observaton
ex

After this, you need to set up web support for the application by running the command

flutter config --enable-web

as if it is already available it will “true” on the terminal then you will find a web folder in your directory then the next step is to edit your index.html file you can edit it manually to step things but is it very easy to write it by command so first, delete your index.html file then run

flutter create .

Note : Please don’t forget to run it with that dot(.) either you will get some errors

You need to run the command in your terminal to create a build folder, which is necessary to host your app on the web.

flutter build web

Now you can run your app on the local server if you want to make changes in your web app like app icon, orientation, name, display, background-color then you can change it by editing manifest.json file in the web folder either manually or you can create manifest.json file by using

https://app-manifest.firebaseapp.com/ you can generate manifest.json then replace the previous file by new.

now you are done with this flutter setup, now you can host your app on the local server but if you want to host on other platforms like Surge or Firebase then there is a different process to implement it. so let’s understand it in following steps

Hosting the PWA APP on Server

Hosting of Web APP on different servers requires installing Node.js on your machine it provides all required things to host your file on the server.

lets first install it on the machine, here I am installing it on ubuntu so open your terminal and run the command

sudo apt install nodejs

It will start working, once it installed you can verify it by checking the installed version by this command

node -v or node –version

you will find this if installed properly (version could be different)

Note: It is recommended to install the Node Package Manager with Node.js on the machine as it provides different packages, run the command to install it.

sudo apt install npm

and you check it by running the command.

npm -v or npm –version

For installing the web on server Node.js and NPM may require the latest version so you can update it. You can visit this Website to do so.

so now you have the latest versions of Node.js and npm now I will host my app on firebase (you can also host on Suge by installing it on your machine).

For firebase hosting first, you need to create a project on Firebase here you need to select hosting.

then you need to start and follow the instruction as it says. You need to install firebase tools in your machine by running the command

npm install -g firebase-tools

it may take some time but once it installed you are ready to use now you need to log in firebase by running

firebase login

but wait you may found some error of firebase or npm so if you get please sort it by upgrading your firebase tool or refreshing npm,

Firebase Upgradation: You may run command to install firebase version according to the error you found by running the command(@7.6.1 is the version of firebase tool)

npm install -g firebase-tools@7.6.1 
or
npm i firebase-tools@7.6.1

you can also go through this Firebase CLI documentation for any firebase related query or problem

NPM Upgradation

If you run firebase login in your terminal and get error command not found you need to refresh your npm

For NPM Related problem you can go with Documentation and you need to run only given commands and sort this problem out.

now you again you need to run the command firebase login and if you are not logged in it will take you to the screen where you need to verify your firebase account and if you are already logged in you will get this.

now run command

firebase init

here you will find a window where you need to select which action you are going to perform, here we are going to host it so we would select it

then we get an option to select which folder you want to set as a public directory so we would use web folder of build folder because we need to host this folder on the server, and then we select all override options As “NO” because we need not override it because we have already run it (so it is necessary to run at least once before doing this process)

now as it says initialization is completed so there then we can run the following command:

firebase deploy

hereafter running this command we have deployed our project on firebase and as you can see we have got a link which has been automatically created by it you can use this to see your deployment.

you can also see it by running the command

firebase open

As stated in the above image: To select what is needed to open we have selected Hosting: Deployed Site which then takes me to the site as can be seen underneath.

So this was a basic implementation showcasing Progressive web App.

Conclusion:

PWA is a business-friendly idea to provide the same user experience to the user of your app in all platforms and it could be quite difficult tasks if develop apps for all platforms separately hence the PWA is the solution of it. the best thing which comes as an outcome with PWA in terms of business is it boosts business in various aspects such as no of users, total reach, lesser size of the app and availability of app among users easily and it would be the icing on the cake if you go with Flutter to develop it because Flutter consists almost each and everything you want with PWA.

If this article has helped you a bit and found interesting please clap!👏

Thanks for reading this article if you find anything that could be improved please let me know, I would love to improve.💙

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Flutter and Fuchsia — The next big thing

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Flutter and Fuchsia — The next big thing

I’m sure we’ve all heard the cheers for flutter lately. It has been incredibly popular since it’s release. Some big technological influencers say that Flutter is the future of mobile app development. But, Google didn’t just stop there.

After Flutter, Google’s Fuchsia is increasingly gaining attention. Google Fuchsia came to light in 2016, when Google first uploaded its experimental operating system project on GitHub. According to the initial assessment made by the technology press, the idea behind the new operating system was to make a ‘universal’ operating system, that can run simultaneously on all platforms like smartphones, tablets, smart home devices, etc.

One of the most interesting things about Google’s Fuchsia is that it is not based on Linux, which Microsoft and Apple use to build a universal operating system. Google built its own microkernel from scratch called Zircon.

Something that interests the developers is the documentation. Fuchsia operating system supports Dart. Yes, the same language, which is used in the Flutter framework for building applications.

Let’s dive deep into understanding Fuchsia and what it has stored in for us in the future —

What is Google Fuchsia for?

Google Fuchsia operating system is designed to provide the most effective and efficient functionalities on all the platforms. It has the ability to run on any CPU architecture. Google’s plan is to make it run on all laptops and PCs. Google is also working on IoT to make it compatible with smart home devices.

Future with Flutter

As we all know, Flutter already works smoothly on Android and iOS. Now knowing that Fuchsia supports Dart, it is safe to assume that Flutter will gel with Fuchsia.

What makes Fuchsia so unique is the ability to run on any CPU architecture. Fuchsia has the ability to change how we interact with our devices, as if they use the same OS, creating its own ecosystem is highly possible. There will definitely be some benefits over the android such as improved overall performance, battery life, and it might possibly even run onGoogle’s custom chips they have been rumored to be experimenting with.

On the other side, Flutter is known for saving cost with its single codebase development and hot reload feature on Android and iOS platforms. If in the future, developers are able to use the double power Flutter and Fuchsia together, they can release apps on any platform like smart home with minimum investment and in record time.

Fuchsia Special Features

Astounding User Interface

One of the biggest things that will make you switch is the Material Design on Google OS. Its beautiful UI components include mind-boggling background, notifications, buttons, etc. to build seamless interaction with the user in the app. It will allow the developer to easily drag, drop, and personalize the home screen.

Cross-Device OS

Google Fuchsia OS is being designed in a way that it works on any device ranging from Smartphones to wearables, laptops, tablets with the same user experience. Its cross-device support enables developers to build apps using the single codebase and run them on multiple devices.

Assistant Friendly

Google Fuchsia is designed to create Google Assistant, thus making it more assistant friendly than Android OS. Google Fuchsia will utilize the app drawers, use the camera, and on-screen API authentication to use features.

Can Fuchsia replace Android and Chrome OS?

After Google revealed the home screen design of Fuchsia OS for the Pixelbook, we can certainly think of it replacing Android and Chrome in the future. Google’s conventional Operating system based on Flutter uses microchips to reduce load, and increase efficiency. It does not come with pre-installed files that increase load size, Unlike Linux. Fuchsia is portable and is highly flexible for developers to build software from scratch.

Earlier, Google rolled out Android and Chrome open-source operating system faced serious challenges of licensing consumer privacy and security. Therefore, it makes sense for Google to build an operating system that is governed and controlled more by the parent company.

So, in a nutshell, the future of operating systems look really bright, considering the application of Fuchsia goes just as we have imagined. Of course, it’s still way too early to tell whether it will succeed, even whether it will end up becoming released or abandoned. We only just saw fuchsia running on Android Emulator for the first time, before we only saw a console without any GUI. I would be very surprised to see Fuchsia running on a production-ready device within at least the next 2 years, but I am really looking forward to trying it out on a physical device for the first time.

Conclusion

As said, Fuchsia is still in the early stages of development. We can only mention that Fuchsia OS will be a real thing with significant support of Google. The repository is on GitHub and documentation is made open to the public to anticipate what developers and app-based companies get from it.

Though we still have to wait till Google announces the project release there’s one thing that we can say that Fuchsia is most likely going to be the successor to Android, Chrome, and other operating systems.

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Custom Clipping in Flutter

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Custom Clipping in Flutter

Today we are taking a look at how to implement a custom shape. How we can make a custom clipper with straight lines, Bezier curve in Flutter.

Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.

What is Clipper?

A custom clipper can be used to clip the widget into any desired shape. In Flutter, it can be done easily thanks to built-in clippers such as ClipOval, ClipRect, ClipRRect, and ClipPath. To achieve this custom shape you need to define what is the path which you need to clip to make your UI awesome.

ClipPath is used to create a very custom widget like a widget that has a wave border or quadratic border. To make something like that, you should make your custom clipper.

Some Built-in Clipping Widgets:

Let’s take a look at some Built-in clipping widgets and see what each one provides. Each of these has a defined behavior.

1. ClipRect

You can use to clip a rectangular area out of a your_pretty_widget(). For example, you could use ClipRect if you only wanted a desirable rectangular part of a your_pretty_widget();

2.ClipRRect:

With the help of ClipRRect widget, you can clip the image with rounded corners. You can’t shape into an image with rounded corners with Container widget decoration properties.

3. ClipOval

ClipOval creates an oval using the widget’s bounding box, If the width and height of the widget are equal, the shape will be a circle. Same as I mentioned above you can’t shape into an image with an oval shape with Container widget decoration properties.

4. ClipPath

if mentioned above ClipRect, ClipRRect or ClipOval doesn’t help you to achieve your desired shape of your_pretty_widget(), ClipPath is used to create a very custom desired shape.

Suppose if you want to implement shape like a star, heart basically you desired custom shape. This can be achieved by using Custom Clipping.

Custom Clipping

Let’s move to the coding part :

ClipPath(
   clipper: ChatBackgroundClipper(),
   child: your_pretty_widget();
 )

To make your custom clip, you should make your own class, and make it extends CustomClipperand then override two methods.

  • getClip() it returns a path given that the rendered object being clipped is of the given size.
  • shouldReclip() it returns a boolean that determines if your widget needs to be reclipped or not
class CustomClipperImage extends CustomClipper<Path> {
  @override
  getClip(Size size) {
    var path = Path();
    return path;
  }

  @override
  bool shouldReclip(CustomClipper oldClipper) {
    return bool;
  }

As it is cleared from the above diagram x increases horizontally, and Y-axis increases downward.

Methods To Give shape

MoveTo :

with the help of this method, you can move your point of clipping.

path.moveTo(x, y);

LineTo :

with the help of this method you can, You can cut your pretty widget with a line. Here x, y is your destination point where your line stop.

path.lineTo(x,y);

quadraticBeizerTo:

with the help of this method, you can clip your widget with a curve. In this endPoint is your destination point where your curve end. And our main is the control point you can understand like a magnetic point for a curve.

var controlPoint = Offset(x, y);
var endPoint = Offset(x,y);
path.quadraticBezierTo(controlPoint.dx, controlPoint.dy,
    endPoint.dx, endPoint.dy);

Let’s Take a look into my example which I have created for you

To Achieve this kind of shape :

Here is the path code :

@override
getClip(Size size) {
  var path = Path();
  path.lineTo(0.0, size.height);
  var firstControlPoint = Offset(55, size.height / 1.4);
  var firstEndPoint = Offset(size.width / 1.7, size.height / 1.3);
  path.quadraticBezierTo(firstControlPoint.dx, firstControlPoint.dy,
      firstEndPoint.dx, firstEndPoint.dy);
  var secondControlPoint = Offset(size.width - (35), size.height - 95);
  var secondEndPoint = Offset(size.width, size.height / 2.4);
  path.quadraticBezierTo(secondControlPoint.dx, secondControlPoint.dy,
      secondEndPoint.dx, secondEndPoint.dy);
  path.lineTo(size.width, size.height - 40);
  path.lineTo(size.width, 0.0);
  path.close();
  return path;
}

How To Achieve this kind of shape :

Here is the path code.

var path = Path();
path.moveTo(0.0, size.height*0.20);
path.lineTo(0.0, size.height*0.60);
path.quadraticBezierTo(0, size.height*0.80, 15, size.height*0.80);
path.lineTo(size.width-20, size.height*0.80);
path.quadraticBezierTo(size.width-10, size.height-10, size.width, size.height);
path.quadraticBezierTo(size.width-10, size.height*0.90, size.width-10, 15.0);
path.quadraticBezierTo(size.width-12, 0.0, size.width-30, 0.0);
path.lineTo(15.0 , 0.0);
path.quadraticBezierTo(0.0, 0.0, 0.0,size.height*0.20);
return path;

Conclusion :

With the Flutter framework, you can achieve any desired shape with its awesome widgets. Achieve beautiful designs very easily and quickly, There are a lot of plugins as well help you to achieve your desired UI. But don’t overuse clipper because it may be causing you to slow down your app.

Link for repository :

flutter-devs/Flutter-Custom-Clipper
A new Flutter application. This project is a starting point for a Flutter application. A few resources to get you…github.com

Thanks for reading this article if you find anything that could be improved please let me know, I would love to improve.

From Our Parent Company Aeologic

Aeologic Technologies is a leading AI-driven digital transformation company in India, helping businesses unlock growth with AI automation, IoT solutions, and custom web & mobile app development. We also specialize in AIDC solutions and technical manpower augmentation, offering end-to-end support from strategy and design to deployment and optimization.

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Design Patterns in Flutter -Part 3 (MVVM)

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Design Patterns in Flutter -Part 3 (MVVM)

Design Pattern in Flutter is very important in developing flutter application and for its better understanding I would request you all to go through my previous blogs Design Patterns in Flutter -Part 1(MVC) and Design Patterns in Flutter -Part 2(MVP), I hope it will clear your every doubt regarding design pattern and the difference between the Design pattern and Software Architecture.

In this blog, we will dive deeper into the significance of Model View ViewModel (MVVM) architecture of Flutter, used for implementing app designs. The MVVM pattern provides a uniform distribution of data with the benefits of flexibility and reusability of the code as well as data.

MVVM was introduced by Microsoft in 2005 and since then MVVM architecture and its components have been an essential tool in app development projects.

What is MVVM?

Looking at the definition of MVVM it is the abbreviation of three words namely Model, View, and View Model. The concept of MVVM is to build a view model that can represent the data through a view.

So by looking at the flow diagram of MVVM, we could see that the view model occupies the central position which sends and receives the data from the model and provide the data to the view, it also observes the data changes that occurred at the view and responds accordingly using the model to the view. To write an adaptable codebase, app developers need to build a View-Model layer that can be utilized by several ‘Views’. Now we will look at each individual component individually.

The Model

The Model in the MVVM design pattern represents the actual data(real-time) which will be used in application development. for example, we could understand with the help of a real-time scenario of the bank where this element will be the account number, having a person’s name and address.

for better understanding, you could say that the Model can only reflect the actual data, not the characteristics or any feature related to the application. It means you can’t manipulate the way how the data will be represented or formatted. Each item in the dataset will be representing its own model when the data is fetched.

Mainly the Model is kept in away from the logic part for neat code but sometimes it includes the validation logic as well.

The View

The View in the MVVM design pattern represents the Interface that the user gets to interact with the application. This element utilizes a set of libraries to present the data more accurately and appropriately.

This element also possesses the property to utilize behaviors associated with the Model, such as identifying and act according to user input. The View can handle the actions done by a user, which can be manipulated by the Model’s functionalities.

The View Model

The most essential element of MVVM architecture is ViewModel, which presents the View part separately from the Model. This element makes the Model hold the actual data, and the View part holds the formatted or updated data while keeping the controller as an interface between them.

As an interface, the controller has all the records of user input in the view to place them in the model. Or, it can interact with a function of the View to retrieve the data from the Model, then translating the properties to merge it with the View.

The ViewModel also possesses access to the methods, function calls, and other factors that can help to maintain the actual state of the View. Moreover, this access also allows ViewModel to manipulate or moderate the Model according to the behaviors in the view while triggering its processes.

While building the MVVM design pattern, these elements play a crucial role. As their properties include consistent synchronization with each other, users can have the leverage to interact with the application smoothly.

Code Understanding

If you have not installed the flutter SDK or you are still getting familiar with it :

Let’s dive into the code part for an In-depth understanding of the process:-

1. Firstly, Create a new project and then clear all the code in the main.dart file. Type below command in your terminal:-

flutter create yourProjectName
  • Add the current latest version of HTTP and Provider package under the dependencies in pubspec.yaml file.
dependencies:   
http: ^0.12.1  
provider: ^4.1.3

Create UI:

/media/3f6855e0e5dc194c8b7ae561d8b1771b

This shows the View part of the MVVM design pattern, In this, we are getting the movie list from the Model.

Create Web Service:

/media/06d5ed40145a0089fd682c21c3fdac67

This Denotes the Model of the MVVM design pattern.

Create a view model:

Create a model class named movie.dart:

/media/d9d76145f90fc888d7567a9d06d5cb19

This is the View Model which takes data from the model and makes it accessible to View.

Create a widget :

/media/3c6d77c7d4c0b9bd947c9f27d37d7ab1

Creating the main file :

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Find the code version on GitHub at:

flutter-devs/flutter_mvvm_demo
A new Flutter application. This project is a starting point for a Flutter application. A few resources to get you…github.com

Why MVVM for Flutter?

The most common issue that app developers face is the consistency in the whole codebase. Even a small change in a single thread creates plenty of bugs while testing the application. This results in a lack of tight coupling.

MVVM architecture has the capability to overcome these hiccups and deliver better design patterns for the app. All the complexities will get a halt with these patterns.

Here are the ways through which it overcomes these hiccups:

  • Tight Coupling:- Only View(Activity) holds the reference to ViewModel and not vice versa, this solves a tight coupling issue. A single view can hold a reference to multiple ViewModels. Here, the reference to any ViewModel is kept only by the View. As a result, the problem with tight coupling will remain solved.
  • Testability:- ViewModels can easily represent the data or the state. Hence, they can be tested independently without requiring to know how data is processed. This happens because ViewModels are independent of the Views.
  • Code Sharing and Usability:- MVVM architecture allows this objective to get fulfilled with the help of Models. This layer can be utilized for building design patterns in other applications as well, without modifying codes.

You can find each part of this series for the posts in the links below:

Part 1 — Design Pattern MVC

Part 2 — Design Pattern MVP

From Our Parent Company Aeologic

Aeologic Technologies is a leading AI-driven digital transformation company in India, helping businesses unlock growth with AI automation, IoT solutions, and custom web & mobile app development. We also specialize in AIDC solutions and technical manpower augmentation, offering end-to-end support from strategy and design to deployment and optimization.

Trusted across industries like manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, BFSI, and smart cities, Aeologic combines innovation with deep industry expertise to deliver future-ready solutions.

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The Journey of FlutterDevs

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The Journey of FlutterDevs

FlutterDevs — Helping startups and businesses across the globe go Flutter. We build apps that are fast, scalable, and render a delightful native experience to the users across the world with Flutter app services.

Rise of FlutterDevs

As a wise man once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world” .The team of FlutterDevs has been the native heroes for the 10 years. Before Flutter was introduced, we had made hundreds of applications for the Android and iOS platforms. Our team believes in helping and bringing change in the society. Be it creating apps for startups that draw fundings or building digital solutions for Govt. of India for the betterment of the society, we’ve done it all.

The Alpha version of Flutter was made public in 2018. That was the first time when our expert team members heard of it and being the proud tech nerds, Straightaway jumped into Understanding the framework. While we were working on the Alpha version of Flutter, we realized some of Flutter’s best offerings to the developer community.

Hot Reload — Reduces code development time

Less Coding

Rich set of widgets and ability to customize

Native like features

Own Rendering Engine- Skia

These are some of the most important advantages we felt at that early stage. But we definitely realized Flutter is going to revolutionize the development of cross-platform applications.

Fuchsia — A cherry on top!

Soon after Flutter was launched for the public, Google announced and provided source code and documentation of its new operating system, Fuchsia. Fuchsia, a new cross-device open-source operating system. Google’s idea behind this new OS is to create a Universal operating system that runs simultaneously on different devices like Smartphones, Laptops, Tablets, Smart home devices, etc. After the release of documentation by Google, it became clear that Fuchsia OS supports the Dart as a programming language.

Dart, the same programming language on which Flutter is built on. We knew that Flutter already runs smoothly and android and iOS devices and also supports the Web & Desktop as well. It was an alarming moment where we understood that Flutter’s market is going to skyrocket in a few years. And that is when our entire focus was dedicated to mastering this amazing piece of technology.

Some great application built with Flutter

Flutter Showcase consists of a plethora of applications that are increasing in multiple folds each day with large enterprises trusting flutter for their large userbase apps shows the amount of trust that Flutter offers.

Some of the apps that really stood out are:

Google Ads :

Developed by Google using Flutter and it’s available on Android and iOS

Google Ads in an important tool for anyone who is looking to manage and run their ad campaign anywhere on the go. This app helps customers run their ad campaigns so that they can market their services or products and increase their customer base. Featuring a stunning design, this app presents the user with an ocean of information within a tap’s search.

With over 10 Million+ downloads, the app is a beast on its own.

Playstore, App Store Links

Xianyu by Alibaba

Alibaba, the Chinese multinational e-commerce giant that owns the world’s largest e-commerce platform, used the power of Flutter into its shopping platform. Flutter helped Alibaba create something fast, smooth, and ridiculously easy to use and they came up with Xianyu.

Xianyu is being used more than 50+ million users regularly too but and sells millions of products from a gigantic category volume.

Hamilton

This is the official application for one of the famous award-winning Broadway musicals — Hamilton. It was built specifically for its large community of fans to stay updated with all music-related news.

The app offers, along with other things, a karaoke feature for those who want to sing along to their favorite songs, access to a number of different Hamilton lotteries, a daily trivia game. The user experience of the app is outstanding on both platforms.

The app currently has 500,000+ users.

PlayStore, Appstore

Reflectly

Reflectly is a personal journal and diary driven by artificial intelligence to enable you to deal with negative thoughts, make positivity louder, and to teach you about the science of well-being. An award-winning mindfulness app built with Flutter. It was featured on the Apple App Store as an ‘app of the day’.

Having 1 Million+ downloads with a rating of 4.3 from over 30,000 users.

PlayStore, AppStore

What makes Flutter the best option for Cross-Platform App Development?

We already know that Flutter is backed by Google and uses Dart programming language. Now, Dart is one of the biggest reasons why developers love Flutter. Dart has Ahead of Time Complied to fast, predictable, native code, which allows Flutter to be written in Dart.

Even though there are a ginormous amount of reasons why Flutter stands out as the best choice for Cross-platform Development, but we’ll try to point out a few. Which are —

High Performance

Flutter allows us to do so much stuff with the apps that are not available on any other platform. Obviously, it will require the framework to be really powerful. In fact, any of the advantages of Flutter wouldn’t be possible without a High-performance cross-platform rendering engine.

Flutter has Skia, their own rendering engine for rendering itself onto the platform provided canvas. Because of this engine UI built in this framework can be launched on virtually any platform.

Lesser Coding

Flutter’s Dart programming language is strongly typed and object-oriented in nature. In Flutter, the programming style is declarative and reactive. Because JavaScript bridge is not necessary for Flutter, the start-up time of the app enhances.

And of course, as Dart programmed flutter framework supports multiple platforms, the written code can be used to support different channels like Mobile, Desktop, and PWA.

Time Tested Efficiency

Flutter has been around enough to showcase concrete proof of its reliance and efficiency. Apps like Google Ads, Reflectly, Alibaba, Hamilton, which we discussed, are the simple portrayal of Flutter’s ridiculous efficiency. These apps with millions of downloads and daily users, generating millions of queries per second, show the reason why these technology giants trusted Flutter with their apps.

Where does FlutterDevs stand now?

Flutter was not always the same. We’ve been working on flutter since it’s inception and we’ve seen Flutter and it’s community grow. There were a lot of challenges initially, which were resolved by the community itself.

Like everyone else, we also started from zero. But we’re thrilled to see where we have reached with our dedication and teamwork.

We have bagged 21st Rank worldwide by GitHub awards for our contribution and quality of work. In the last two years of working on Flutter has completely changed the way we see the mobile app development industry. And it never fails to surprise us every day. That is the reason why we as a Mobile App Development Company, majorly develop in Flutter.

Let’s take a look at where we stand in the Flutter App Development Industry right now with our mighty stats:

quick glance

Some of the apps that we are proud of making

We have built a number of applications for our clients across the globe. As much as we loved building these apps with Flutter, our client and their customers are loving using these applications.

Here are some of them:

Old Pazar

An app that connects local people to buy, sell, or exchange used goods and services by making it fast, easy, and free for anyone to post a listing through their mobile phone app. This app helps shop owners or anybody to add their products and services to sell easily through a special section created for this purpose.

Old Pazar is the largest Arabic marketplace in Turkey. It has 10,000+ downloads with a 4.9 user rating on the play store.

Playstore link

Google Devfest

The official DevFest mobile app for the GDG community. The app gets the user all the details of the events from Speakers of the event to agenda and sponsors, etc.

Playstore Link

FlutterDevs Startup Incubator Programme

We see an enormous 150 Million Startups in the world and new ones coming up every day but almost 93% of startups fail within 18 months.

In order to help startups in upscaling their business with their current problems like lack of guidance, finances, proper marketing strategy, FlutterDevs has come up with FlutterDevs Startup Incubator Programme.

This platform for newly emerging startups provides all young business the facilities like:

  • Conceptualisation Team
  • UI/UX
  • Development Team
  • QA Testing
  • SEO & Marketing
  • Support

Why FlutterDevs ?

At FlutterDevs, we focus on challenging our limits of user-centered design by creating evident mobile solutions. FlutterDevs is not just a service provider, but we are a bunch of people who thrive on Flutter, as it’s our only passion. We work continuously to help grow the Flutter community with our open-source contributions, educating curious minds like ours by writing Blogs, Organizing flutter meet-ups, and many more.

We love to communicate with people with the same passion for learning and making flutter stronger. This is why we have built our 20k+strong LinkedIn community, where we exchange ideas, knowledge, and get feedback.

Our 100+ open-source module, 10+ Plugins that we have developed, and 20+flutter themes, help us Fastrack the development process. Right from conceptualization to launching the app, we have dedicated teams working on each phase under one roof.

In a nutshell, FlutterDev’s intent to work in Flutter is based on our passion for this piece of art. We dream to be the world’s best flutter app development company and that is what drives us. We want every app that we build to be the best app ever.

Check these links for more Info:

Closing Thoughts: Flutter for future

The increasing rate of adoption of Flutter Framework is telling that more and more mobile developers are switching to Flutter. The continuous effort of the Flutter community to polish the framework is already putting flutter ahead in the race. Over 2 million developers have used Flutter in the last sixteen months of its release and it’s constantly growing. In these unprecedented conditions, google saw 10% month over month growth in March, making it nearly a half a million developers using Flutter every month.

FlutterDevs being the leader of this community has been around Flutter since the origination sixteen months back. We see a massive shift in the cross-platform application development in the mobile app development industry. Flutter takes fewer efforts, less time, and smaller investments for app development. The community behind flutter is determined to set a higher standard of cross-platform development in 2020 and beyond.

From Our Parent Company Aeologic

Aeologic Technologies is a leading AI-driven digital transformation company in India, helping businesses unlock growth with AI automation, IoT solutions, and custom web & mobile app development. We also specialize in AIDC solutions and technical manpower augmentation, offering end-to-end support from strategy and design to deployment and optimization.

Trusted across industries like manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, BFSI, and smart cities, Aeologic combines innovation with deep industry expertise to deliver future-ready solutions.

FlutterDevs team of Flutter developers to build high-quality and functionally-rich apps. Hire flutter developer for your cross-platform Flutter mobile app project on an hourly or full-time basis as per your requirement! You can connect with us on Facebook, GitHub, Twitter, and LinkedIn for any flutter related queries.

We welcome feedback and hope that you share what you’re working on using #FlutterDevs. We truly enjoy seeing how you use Flutter to build beautiful, interactive web experiences!.

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State Management In Flutter-Provider

Shaiq Khan
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State Management In Flutter-Provider

Let’s dive into the journey on how an app typically gets developed! So usually, apps start off with a very sophisticated product design diagram to tell you how your app is laid out. And this is given to developers on a napkin,

And then the next thing that’s expected is, you build the app!

From Rough Idea on a Napkin to real Application! It’s all about States

You may laugh, but that probably happens more than we’d like to admit.

And with Flutter, that’s not entirely inconceivable in that with Flutter and Flutter’s way of handling composing UIs. You have to handle data flowing through your app, changing state & widgets interacting with other widgets. Getting this wrong at the very beginning is a very costly mistake to make.

With this blog, you’ll be armed with the tools that you need to be able to make an effective choice at the very beginning. So get ready!

Table of Content :

Pragmatic Way of Managing State in Flutter

State Management

Journey through different approaches in state management

Demo Application

Different Flutter State Management Techniques

Resources

Pragmatic Ways of Managing State in Flutter

  • ✅ Understandable/readable / maintainable
  • ✅ Testing
  • ✅ Performance
  1. Understandable/readable/maintainable — Your UI and your app is going to evolve over time. Therefore, the way you manage the state needs to evolve with it. It needs to be flexible and malleable, so you don’t end up with a spaghetti mess, as you iterate on your UI.
  2. Testing — test state when you want to see its effect on UI and vice versa.
  3. Performance — A means by which you can build in the state that will give you good performance, but you always need to be aware of the edge cases.

State Management

If I have a widget, and I want to change its state from somewhere outside of that widget, either from another widget, or from the network, or a system call.

Journey through Approaches in State Management

UI is a function of State

Demo Application

So let’s build a very simple app. It shows the pie chart, and there is a slider, All we want to do is change the state of the pie chart in response to something happening in the slider.

If we look at the very simplified widget tree,we have, basically, only three widgets —

  • Homepage
  • MyChart
  • MySlider

And my slider wants to change the state of my chart.

So we do something that we call in any declarative framework lifting state up. So we lift state up using — my schedule

As soon as slider change —

  • Instead of going to my chart directly, it goes through my schedule. It asks for my schedule and tells it,
hey, you know what? I was tapped, and this value changed
  • My schedule is responsible for notifying its listener. So it notifies my chart,
hey, something changed, and my chart redraws
  • It then goes down to my slider as well and says,
hey, this thing actually changed, and then it changed to my slider

Different Flutter State Management Techniques

  1. Scoped Model
Scoped Model

2. Bloc

BLoC

3. Provider

This is what we are going to discuss in brief !

provider | Flutter Package
English | Português A wrapper around InheritedWidget to make them easier to use and more reusable. By using provider…pub.dev

Add this in your dependencies in Pubspec.yaml. This will automatically get the latest version of provider

provider :

There are three components related to this Provider State Management that we need to understand —

  • ChangeNotifier.
  • ChangeNotifierProvider
  • Consumer

Change Notifier adds listening capabilities to my schedule. So now, we get add listener, remove listener, dispose. And hey, I can notify listeners when things change. Since we added a lifting state up. So we lift state up using my schedule

https://gist.github.com/Anirudhk07/28e0fb792e52e25aa4175d9474452ff6#file-schedule-dart

The Most Important thing is calling notifyListeners(), whenever you change the state data in ChangeNotifier. If you will not call this method, the state change would not reflect in the UI. The method notifyListeners() tells flutter to rebuild the screen which is using that ChangeNotifier.

https://gist.github.com/Anirudhk07/39dc44df9a91e610ce97f308d8873c33#file-chart-dart

It is not necessary that all the part of the UI in MyChart will be using the state data from MySlider , and thus needs to be rebuit. It may be possible that 50% of the UI of any screen, not in our case, not needs to be rebuilt. So, Consumer, which is a widget, allows to observe the state changes from ChangeNotifier in a particular part of UI, and thus only observing part of the UI will get re-rendered.

So with this now MyChart dynamically changes with MySlider !!!

For Disposables / MultiProvider head over here —

disposables | Dart Package
Simple library to manage objects needing to release its own resources. final sink = StreamController(); final…pub.dev

For more information go here

Happy Fluttering !! ❤

Resources

flutter-devs/Provider-State-Management
Provider State Management in flutter using a demo application – flutter-devs/Provider-State-Managementgithub.com

provider | Flutter Package
English | Português A wrapper around InheritedWidget to make them easier to use and more reusable. By using provider…pub.dev

From Our Parent Company Aeologic

Aeologic Technologies is a leading AI-driven digital transformation company in India, helping businesses unlock growth with AI automation, IoT solutions, and custom web & mobile app development. We also specialize in AIDC solutions and technical manpower augmentation, offering end-to-end support from strategy and design to deployment and optimization.

Trusted across industries like manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, BFSI, and smart cities, Aeologic combines innovation with deep industry expertise to deliver future-ready solutions.

FlutterDevs team of Flutter developers to build high-quality and functionally-rich apps. Hire flutter developer for your cross-platform Flutter mobile app project on an hourly or full-time basis as per your requirement! You can connect with us on Facebook, GitHub, Twitter, and LinkedIn for any flutter related queries.

We welcome feedback and hope that you share what you’re working on using #FlutterDevs. We truly enjoy seeing how you use Flutter to build beautiful, interactive web experiences!.

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