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The owner of a significant smartphone global market share, China, provides a wide choice of devices for every taste, color, and budget. This significantly makes mobile application technology even more accessible and demanding. Regardless of what your business is — retail, provision of services, or educational activities, today it is next to impossible not to take into account the time that people spend in front of the screens of their mobile devices. That makes the idea of creating the business mobile app for your clients in the coming 2020 year of a great sense.

While there are many ways in which an app can be made using dozens of different technologies and frameworks. And since we all know why cross-platform mobile applications are practically the most suitable for any business.

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Native vs Hybrid vs Cross-Platform — What To Choose?
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But in this article, we are not going to talk about that. Instead, we’ll talk about the most promising and performing cross-platform mobile development technology — Flutter.

It’s been a little over 3 years when the alpha version of Flutter was released. Since that day, we have seen Flutter as a framework grow into a massive community of millions of people and we will discuss how Flutter became the most loved Framework.

Flutter — A Short Introduction

Flutter is a free and open-source mobile UI framework created by Google and released in May 2017. In a few words, this allows you to create a native mobile application with only one code. It means that you can use one programming language and one codebase to create two different apps (IOS and Android).

Flutter refers to two important things:

• An SDK (Software Development Kit): A collection of tools that are going to help you to develop your applications. It includes tools to compile your code in native machine code (code for IOS and Android).
• A Framework (UI Library based on widgets): A collection of reusable UI elements (buttons, text inputs, sliders, etc.) that you can personalize for your personal needs.

To develop with Flutter, you will use a programming language called Dart. It’s also Google’s language created in October 2011 but improved a lot these past years.

Dart focus on front-end development; you can use it to create mobile and web applications.

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A Brief History of Flutter

Flutter’s beta version was launched on 13th March 2018 and it was first to live on 4th December 2018. In such a short amount of time, Flutter has already established its position in the market. Let’s take a look at the graph below to understand the popularity of Flutter as compared to other mobile platforms.

Now that we know what Flutter is, and why is it so popular among developers and business owners, let’s take a look at some of the greatest apps built with Flutter. People all around the world, have developed thousands of apps with Flutter. It became insanely popular right after it’s alpha launch. Many amazing applications have been build in this framework, but we’ll take a look at the top 6 apps built-in Flutter in the last 3 years.

The Forever Growing Flutter Community

We continue to see fast growth in Flutter usage, with over two million developers having used Flutter in the last 3 years since its release. Despite these unprecedented circumstances, in March there was 10% month-over-month growth, with nearly half a million developers now using Flutter each month.

Some other interesting statistics:

• 60% of users are developing with Windows, 27% are using macOS, and 13% are using Linux.
• 35% work for a startup, 26% are enterprise developers, 19% are self-employed, and 7% work for design agencies.
• 78% of Flutter developers use the stable channel, 11% use beta, and 11% use either dev or master.
• The top five territories for Flutter are India, China, the United States, the EU, and Brazil.
• There are approximately 90,000 Flutter apps published in the Play Store, with nearly 10,000 uploaded in the last month alone.

Why is Flutter the best Cross-Platform Technology?

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.

Some Amazing Apps Made 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.

Google Ads (utility) :

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

Xianyu by Alibaba (eCommerce) :

The Alibaba.com app is a wholesale marketplace for global trade and incorporates Flutter to power parts of the app. The app allows its users to buy products from suppliers around the world, all from the convenience of a mobile app.

Reflectly (Lifestyle):

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 ‘app of the day’.

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

Birch Finance (Finance):

Birch Finance is a credit card rewards app that helps its users to manage and optimize existing cards. The app enables its users to find the best card for them (according to their spending pattern), tracking spending across all accounts, and offer different ways to earn and redeem rewards.

Hamilton Music (Entertainment):

Flutter empowers the official app of the hit Broadway musical, Hamilton. The app includes exclusive daily news and videos, daily lotteries for New York, Chicago, London, and tour locations, daily trivia game, merchandise store (to purchase items from the official Hamilton store), and more.

Hookle (Social):

Hookle is another app built using Flutter that allows its users to share posts, monitor social activity, and manage multiple social media accounts in one place. Hookle facilitates composing and publishing posts to multiple social media channels, monitor activities across all channels at a glance, customize posts per social media channel, and more.

The Future of Flutter

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 2 years 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.

With Flutter, the possibilities are practically endless, so even super extensive apps can be created with ease. If you develop mobile apps and have yet to give Flutter a try, I highly recommend you do. After using Flutter since it’s inception, We think its safe to say that it’s the best mobile app development technology and is the future of mobile development. If not, it’s definitely a step in the right direction.

Flutter is a very exciting development in the mobile app space, partly because of Google’s backing, but mainly because of the fresh approach it takes to app development. If you are looking for your app to be free of the shackles of the standard iOS and Android UI elements and you don’t need too many native SDK features, then you are in for a treat as Flutter will give you a great platform for developing fast, great-looking mobile apps.

However, if you are looking for a more conventional-looking mobile app or something that uses more native features, or requires significant 3rd party integrations, then it may be worth waiting a little longer before releasing your company’s first Flutter app.

Our Contribution to the Flutter Community

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 some of our facts and know where we stand right now:

• 120+ Open source contribution
• 10+ Flutter custom Plugins
• 150+ Blogs
• 40+ Pre-built Themes
• More than 25K follower community on social media

Check these links for more Info:

• GitHub(Open-Source)– https://github.com/flutter-devs
• Medium –https://medium.com/flutterdevs
• Flutter Themes- https://www.youtube.com/flutterdevs
• 25k Flutter Community– www.linkedin.com/showcase/flutterdevs/

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