What is flutter?

muchoki_ben
2 min readApr 11, 2021

The tech world is exploding with new tech and techniques. If you’ve been paying attention to mobile development, you’ve probably heard of flutter (it’s all about widgets).Read this article to find out what’s flutter.

What is flutter ?

Flutter is a free and open source project developed by Google to provide a portable UI toolkit that developers can use to create beautiful , natively compiled applications for android , iOS , desktop and web by just using a single codebase for multiple platforms.

Who owns Flutter ?

flutter is an open source project that is a contribution from google, other companies and individuals.

Who is flutter for ?

Flutter is developed to serve multiple users. to mention a few;

  • Users — flutter makes beautiful applications come to life .
  • Developers — it speeds up development and reduces the cost and complexity of the app production.

“One codebase for multiple platforms”

  • Designers — it provides a canvas for high-end user experience, flutter has the ability to turn a concept into production code without compromises imposed by typical frameworks

Why is flutter Unique ?

Flutter is unique because it doesn’t rely on the web technology unlike other mobile app technology nor the set of subjects shipping with the device.it also uses its own high end performance rendering engine to draw widgets.

Flutter implements it system in Dart (a modern concise , object oriented language ) that developers can easily approach, read ,change ,replace or remove. This gives developers tremendous control over the system , in addition flutter uses a small layer of c/c++ code.

How much experience do you need to use flutter ?

Flutter is approachable to programmers familiar to object oriented concepts (classes ,methods and variables) and imperative programing concept of looping and conditions.

Where is flutter used ?

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muchoki_ben

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