Pros And Cons Of Flutter App Development

 Although React native has been a preferred choice for app developers, the entry of Flutter in the market has made most realise that it is the future of app development. Have you used Google Pay for payments or shopped on Alibaba? Both are Flutter mobile app and prime examples of how Flutter has changed the app development game within only a few years of its existence.

But even Flutter doesn’t come free of cons. We will discuss the cons of Flutter briefly in this post, but before let’s see what makes Flutter preferable for professional app developers.

What Are The Advantages of Flutter?

 

1. Flutter Is Backed By Google

Google uses Flutter extensively for building its app, and it is backed by Google, which means the technology will have continued support from Google in terms of bugs and security. There are also high chances that the product will experience development frequently and for longer into the future.

2. Flutter Is High On Performance

The performance of Flutter apps has been compared with performances of other apps based on Xamarin and React Native. Flutter’s performance was found to top the other two, with 58fps and 220ms launch time, while the other two were found to have 53fps and 57fps, respectively.

Flutter uses direct code compilation, and there’s no bridge to slow it down, and hence it has high speed and performance.

3. Flutter Has Ready-Made Widgets

Flutter has many ready-made widgets, or you can say, Flutter is all about widgets. Any object you see in Flutter is a widget, and you can combine widgets to create layouts and use them on any level of customization. You can even create your own widget. All this only means that UI customization takes shorter than with other developments.

What Are The Disadvantages Of Flutter?

1. Third-party libraries are not available

Although Flutter’s pre-set widgets and 15k+ packages on official resources don’t let the developers feel they are lacking anything, many would say that third-party libraries and packages play a big role in software development. These libraries are often easy to find, open-source, and often pre-tested in different environments.

Using third-party libraries, the programmers can skip the necessity of coding from scratch. But this advantage is missing in Flutter.

2. Large App Sizes

 

Developers make an effort to deliver an app size that consumers don’t have to delete as a result of limited storage on their phones. Even though users today have considerable memory on their phones, their needs and uses of different apps are increasing.

With built-in widgets, Flutter’s minimum app size is over 4MB, which is a lot more than Java and Kotlin, whose minimum size is on KBs.

Conclusion

Although more and more developers are learning about Flutter’s capabilities, it is not enough to replace React Native and Xamarin. But we are sure that with its ease of use and performance, it is going to be a tough competitor for both React Native and Xamarin.

Dev Artel is great at delivering mobile and web apps with the help of Flutter. Since Flutter is a relatively new technology, top-tier Flutter developers are still extremely scarce. Dev Artel’s primary strengths is that the development team is entirely composed of Flutter masters.