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title: "Flutter"
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ring: trial
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quadrant: languages-and-frameworks
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tags: [coding, frontend, ux/ui]
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---
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[Flutter](https://flutter.dev/) is an open-source SDK developed by Google that allows you to write native applications
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for different platforms with a single code base in [Dart](https://dart.dev/).
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Flutter provides stable platform implementations for both major mobile platforms iOS and Android. Besides the mobile
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platforms, it also supports stable builds for Web with multiple rendering engines (DOM and canvas-render). Flutter also
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support builds for all Desktop environments, including Mac, Windows and Linux.
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The compilation into native platform code prevents from bottleneck-issues due context switching and runtime bridging,
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which can be found in other cross-platform frameworks like React Native.
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Flutter is using a reactive programming model, where widgets rebuild when their state changes. Based on a declarative
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approach like SwiftUI it is really easy to build UI components (widgets). Meanwhile, Flutter has a big community with a
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lot of support and pre-build widgets.
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Flutter has made significant improvements and is becoming more and more popular in recent years. Big companies,
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including Alibaba, Tencent and BMW adopted Flutter to develop their apps. This is also shown in
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a [blog post by Stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/02/21/why-flutter-is-the-most-popular-cross-platform-mobile-sdk/)
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where it shows the increase in popularity in comparison to React Native
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Based on these facts, we decided to get a deeper look on FLutter. We were able to prove that Flutter is more performant
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than, React Native by building an identical Prototype application with both Frameworks.
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In addition to the Framework itself, Flutter does a lot to improve the developer experience (DX) due to its hot reload
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and various debugging tools which are very handy and missing in other Frameworks like React Native. There are also a lot
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of plugins for WebStorm and Visual Studio Code which also improves the DX a lot.
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