1. Hot Reload: Flutter's hot reload feature allows developers to see instant updates to the UI during development. It significantly speeds up the development process, enabling developers to experiment, iterate, and refine their app's UI and functionality in real-time.
2. Single Codebase: One of the key advantages of Flutter is the ability to write code once and deploy it on multiple platforms. With a single codebase, developers can build applications for Android, iOS, web, and desktop platforms, reducing development time and effort.
3. Expressive UI: Flutter offers a rich set of customizable widgets that allow developers to create beautiful and responsive user interfaces. These widgets are designed to adapt to different screen sizes and form factors, providing a consistent look and feel across platforms.
4. Fast Performance: Flutter's performance is comparable to native applications as it uses Dart, a compiled language, and leverages the Skia graphics library. Flutter apps are compiled to highly efficient native code, ensuring smooth animations, fast startup times, and excellent overall performance.
5. Access to Native Features: Flutter provides direct access to native device features and APIs, enabling developers to utilize platform-specific capabilities. Whether it's accessing device sensors, camera, geolocation, or integrating with platform-specific services, Flutter makes it easy to leverage native functionality.
6. Rich Ecosystem: Flutter has a vibrant ecosystem with a wide range of packages and plugins available through the Flutter Package Manager (pub.dev). These packages extend the functionality of Flutter and offer pre-built solutions for common app requirements, saving development time and effort.
Prior knowledge of Flutter
Prior knowledge of Dart language
Prior knowledge of State management
Prior knowledge of pub dev packages
Prior knowledge of Git
Prior knowledge of HTTP client request calls
Knowledge of the DIGIT Flutter UI framework
Check the training resources page to access help documents on the tools required for UI development.
At the core of Flutter's architecture is the Flutter engine, which is written in C++ and provides low-level rendering capabilities. The engine interfaces with the host operating system and handles tasks such as layout, drawing, and gesture recognition.
On top of the engine, Flutter provides a comprehensive UI toolkit that consists of widgets. Widgets are the building blocks of Flutter applications and represent different elements of the user interface.
Flutter's reactive framework allows widgets to rebuild efficiently when there are changes
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Overview of Flutter and its key features
Flutter is an open-source UI framework developed by Google for building natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop platforms using a single codebase. It provides a fast and efficient way to create visually appealing and high-performance applications with a consistent user experience across different platforms.