Why are Companies Switching to Flutter Framework?
By: Shruti Singh
Tags: Mobile Apps, Flutter App Development, Framework

Technology is synonymous with “growth”. It denotes moving forward with the current technology and continuously develop it further with better functionality. App development also caught up to this trend and now there are emerging frameworks and tools which are being developed to facilitate the whole process.

One such development is the Flutter framework created by tech-giant Google. In recent years, we have witnessed unprecedented popularity for the Flutter app development, for many companies have shifted to this framework from Native frameworks.

Currently, popular apps such as Alibaba (eCommerce), Reflectly (lifestyle), Birch Finance, Google Ads, etc. are the use cases of Flutter. In light of this information, there have to be some remarkable features that make people choose Flutter, right? This is precisely what we will do today.

We have accumulated 5 strong reasons as to why companies prefer to shift from the Native to Flutter framework along with why it is considered ideal for cross-platform.

Solves Traditional limitations

One of the prominent reasons why people choose Flutter for app development is that it is far better than other frameworks. It solves many problems that these traditional frameworks have.

For example, in cross-platform user experience essentially lacks behind as compared to the UX of native apps. It is because they build the UI experience with JavaScript which must be compiled just in time. Whereas, if we speak of the Flutter framework, it allows you to compile ahead of time, rendering you a native-like experience with the cross-platform framework.

2. Single Code is a boon

One-time code being the most attractive quality of this framework has attracted immense attention. With the help of Dart language, Flutter enables the developers to code once for both frontend and backend leading up to time-efficiency in the whole development process. Unlike native frameworks, where developers were forced to code separate for all operating systems, Flutter only demands the coding one time and does a much better job also.

3. Amazing UI/UX

If you thought cross-platform app development fails to provide intuitive and engaging UI/UX Design, then you need to check the facts again. Flutter is extremely capable of providing out-of-the-box user experience with effective design.

Flutter is the mixture of best features of different languages that allow access to Material Design Specification. Developers can very easily create impressive UI experience which seems as smooth as native applications’ design.

4. Productivity of developers

Flutter’s ability to help developers perform faster and eventually increasing their productivity, is a result of features like “Hot reload” and “Hot Restart”. With the help of these, developers are able to see the changes that they make to the state of the app within 5 seconds or even less, and changes made in the app structure within less than 10 seconds.

It eliminates the need for Gradle build for you can access the changes as soon as you make them. To add to the charm, developers do not need special training in order to use these features. In fact, it is believed that developers can save as much as 30% to 40% with Flutter in comparison to other frameworks.

5. Supports IDEs

You can always choose between different Integrated Development Environments when you are working with Flutter. One of the best IDEs is the VS Code. Before you ask why is it so, let me tell you that it is preferred by developers due to its light-weight quality and also because it is faster than other IDEs and works perfectly for Flutter app development. Most of the features of VS Code are derived from Android Studio and IntelliJ, which is like the best of both worlds.

6. Availability of Firebase

There are certain things that may seem small but leaves a big impact while decision making. Developers are attracted to Flutter because of the availability of Firebase. It provides the developers with cloud storage, real-time databases, cloud functions and so on. Because of this facility, you do not need servers for all the purposes mentioned above, and eventually, it saves a lot of money and time in planning and building the backend. Moreover, you do not require a separate dedicated DevOps team for automotive development and release process.

7. Abundant Open-Source packages

Due to the increasing popularity of the Flutter framework, many Open-source packages have also emerged to facilitate the development process and make tasks easier than ever. The package library is growing fast by the day, thanks to increasing demand for them, and also the increase in the user base of Flutter.

After going through the reasons mentioned above, we can pretty much surmise why these companies are changing their framework and gravitating towards Flutter app development. It is a platform growing by the day, from what we see now, it is going to become huge among developers in the future.