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Let's be clear about one thing: mobile applications are wonderful. They allow us to execute various tasks conveniently, and almost everyone who owns a mobile phone has used one or more applications. Some of these applications have shown tremendous growth in popularity and acceptance.  The number of mobile phones on the market, the number of mobile applications, and the number of tools used to generate them have all extended over time. Google's free and open-source Flutter mobile UI framework stands out among these products. Flutter is a new mobile app development framework that has gained much traction in the last few months. While there are some great things about using Flutter, there are also a few caveats to be aware of.  Today, in this post, we'll look at the good & bad of  Flutter app development  and help you decide if it's a suitable framework for your project. Let's dive in to get a closer look, but before proceeding to the good and bad, why not discuss ...

Simply speaking, a Flutter plugin makes native functionality available to Flutter. At the same time, a module help integrates Flutter into an existing native application. That's all. But that's not the whole story. There's much to it. Keep on reading to understand much better. How to build a Flutter plugin? The Flutter plugin is like a wrapper to the native code, such as Android and iOS. For creating a flutter plugin, developers use Swift or Objective-c for iOS and Kotlin or Java for Android to write respective codes.  Flutter can do similar things to any native app using message passing and platform channels. It does that by instructing the native iOS or Android to develop an action and return the result to Dart. Moreover, developers can collect more details using the directory structure of the Flutter application . One can also notice the iOS and Android directory and the lib directory consisting of a Dart code. With that, it also has iOS and Android hosts that help the n...

  Flutter is Google's UI portable toolkit for creating better, natively compiled mobile, web, and desktop applications from a single codebase. Developing cross-platform mobile applications in iOS and Android is better in Flutter. Flutter works with the existing code. Businesses worldwide and developers use this code as free and open source. Flutter aims to make development more accessible, fast, and productive as soon as possible with a good development team. To ensure Flutter will work better than the other frameworks, hot reload, excellent performance, a vast widget catalog, and a solid community contribute to meeting that objective on time. On December 4, 2018 , Flutter 1.0 was released at the Flutter Live event, indicating this framework's first stable version. Flutter 1.12 was released at the Flutter Interactive event on December 11, 2019. On May 6, 2020 , the Dart software development kit (SDK) version 2.8 and Flutter 1.17.0 were released, adding support for the ...