Top Flutter Advantages and Why You Should Try Flutter on Your Next Project

Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, native applications from a single codebase for

Mobile - Android and iOS
Desktop - macOS, Chromebook, Windows, and Linux
Web

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What Is Flutter?
More than 15 points of Why to use Flutter

What is Flutter?

It belongs to the category of cross-platform development frameworks and tools that allows developers to build and compile native apps for

Android and iOS mobiles,
Desktops including macOS, Chromebook, Windows, and Linux machines
Web

All of this happens from a single code base.

So we can say that Flutter is a Write once and run anywhere framework for developers.

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Why Flutter? Let's understand it with more than 15 points

1. Integration of Flutter with existing Android and iOS apps

It’s sometimes not practical to rewrite your entire application in Flutter all at once. For those situations, Flutter can be integrated into your existing application piecemeal, as a library or module. That module can then be imported into your Android or iOS (currently supported platforms) app to render a part of your app’s UI in Flutter. Or, just to run shared Dart logic.

2. Flutter can be developed on multiple IDEs

Including the Android Studio which is backed by JetBrains which build the worlds’ best IDE such as IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm, and many more.
It works perfectly on the VS Code, and those who are not coming from Android Native development, can use the VS Code as the IDE.

3. Flutter has whole suites of web-based tooling of debugging and inspecting Flutter applications

Here are some of the things you can do with DevTools:

Inspect the UI layout and state of a Flutter app.
Diagnose UI jank performance issues in a Flutter app.
CPU profiling for a Flutter or Dart app.
Network profiling for a Flutter app.
Source-level debugging of a Flutter or Dart app.
Debug memory issues in a Flutter or Dart command-line app.
View general log and diagnostics information about a running Flutter or Dart command-line app.
Analyze code and app size.

4. Dart is the programming language for Flutter

Because it is optimized for Client development with HOT RELOAD, powered by the DART VM so that developers can iteratively make changes and instantly see changes or results in the app.

5. Dart compiles to native machine code for mobile and desktop, as well as to JavaScript for the web

Whether you’re creating a mobile app, web app, command-line script, or server-side app, there’s a Dart solution for that.

Flexible compiler technology lets you run Dart code in different ways, depending on your target platform and goals:

Dart Native: For programs targeting devices (mobile, desktop, server, and more), Dart Native includes both a Dart VM with JIT (just-in-time) compilation and an AOT (ahead-of-time) compiler for producing machine code.
Dart Web: For programs targeting the web, Dart Web includes both a development time compiler (dartdevc) and a production time compiler (dart2js).

6. Dart and Flutter has conditional UI features that help developers to render UI based on conditions

A flutter package that enhances conditional rendering supports if-else and switch conditions

if-else example

class MyWidget extends StatelessWidget {
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return Column(
    children: <Widget>[
      Conditional.single(
        context: context,
        conditionBuilder: (BuildContext context) => someCondition == true,
        widgetBuilder: (BuildContext context) => Text('The condition is true!'),
        fallbackBuilder: (BuildContext context) => Text('The condition is false!'),
      ),
    ],
  );
}
}

switch example

class MyWidget extends StatelessWidget {
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return Column(
    children: <Widget>[
      ConditionalSwitch.single<String>(
        context: context,
        valueBuilder: (BuildContext context) => 'A',
        caseBuilders: {
          'A': (BuildContext context) => Text('The value is A!'),
          'B': (BuildContext context) => Text('The value is B!'),
        },
        fallbackBuilder: (BuildContext context) => Text('None of the cases matched!'),
      ),
    ],
  );
}
}

7. Compiled code of Flutter is faster than others and it increases performance by 15% for many cases

Flutter is fast. It's powered by the same hardware-accelerated 2D graphics library that underpins Chrome and Android: Skia.

Flutter is architectured to support glitch-free, jank-free graphics at the native speed of your device.

Flutter code is powered by the world-class Dart platform, which enables compilation to 32-bit and 64-bit ARM machine code for iOS and Android, as well as JavaScript for the web and Intel x64 for desktop devices.

8. Flutter is an open-source product

Open Source Community is the major source of feedback, documentation, and code contributions.

Flutter on Github

9. Fastest growing skill among software engineers

And Linked data says that Flutter is the fastest-growing skill among software engineers.