The Flutter framework, launched by Google in 2017, has gained a lot of traction in the developers’ community within a short period and has emerged as one of the best options for cross-platform app development. That happened due to the bestselling capabilities that Flutter comes with, which include:

• Creating applications for various platforms with minimal code modification
• Possessing reusable blocks of UI, and similar built-in widgets for creating complex applications
• Wrapping a web view within a native application
• Expedited development with hot-reloading feature
• No reliance on OEM
• Usage of Dart- an advanced, object-oriented language

Likewise, there are several other benefits that Flutter offers. So, numerous business brands across diverse domains are hiring Flutter app development companies to craft ground-breaking app solutions.

This article enlists the top Flutter applications that have garnered unprecedented popularity. The following information would prove handy for all the would-be app creators.

Examples of Game-changing Flutter Apps across Diverse Domains

Advertising: Google Ads

This popular application, available on both- iOS and Android, is a necessary tool that helps businesses to manage their ad campaigns effectively. Entrepreneurs can create ad campaigns that allow them to market their services in a better way and expand their customer base without any hassles. Google Ads not only features an impressive design but also enables the users to obtain a host of information with just a few taps on their smartphones. Entrepreneurs using this app enjoy the following benefits:

• Viewing their ad campaign statistics like the number of clicks, impressions, conversations, etc.
• Receiving real-time alerts
• Managing bids on campaigns

Finance Sector: Birch Finance and Cryptograph

Birch Finance deals with credit card rewards and assists users in managing and optimizing their existing cards. It guides the users to find the card that is best suited to them based on their spending pattern, helps them to track their expenditure across all accounts, and also provides various options for earning and redeeming rewards.

Cryptograph, another marvel of Flutter app development informs users about the most recent data and figures concerning 1,600+ cryptocurrencies, like Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin (BTC), Ripple (XRP), Dogecoin, etc. Using this app, users can view the charts on Exchange rates, select as well as add coins to Favorites for easy tracking, and many more such functions.

Healthcare and Fitness: Coach Yourself and Watermaniac

Coach Yourself is a fitness, healthcare, and meditation app that focuses on the wellness and personal development of users. One of its unique selling points is that it helps users perform meditation to enhance mental health and usher in positivity.

With Watermaniac the users can track the amount of water consumed daily. The app empowers users to set a daily goal regarding water consumption, save the history of every drink taken throughout the day, and receive customized notifications that remind them about drinking water.

Lifestyle: Reflectly

Reflectly, is an AI-empowered lifestyle app with an alluring dashboard, using which the users can create their personal journal. It sends the users a new set of questions every day, for identifying their lifestyle, stress levels, thoughts, and inhibitions. Users can pen down their thoughts and feelings. The app aims at gauging the users’ state of mental being and provides them handy advice on how to cope with their existing problems.

Social Networking: Hookle, KlasterMe, and Pairing

The users of the Flutter app Hookle, enjoy the facility of sharing posts, monitoring social activity, and most importantly, managing several social media accounts in a single place. One can compose posts and publish them, monitor activities through multiple channels at one go, customize the posts as per the social media channel, etc.

With KlasterMe, users can discover amazing content and also create their page with fresh content to share with others. It supports different kinds of content like articles, blogs, videos, photographs, polls, forums, etc.

Pairing, the dating app connecting singles, comes with an easy-going and intuitive interface. It is a safe option to pick as the connections and matches made, involve the real-life user community.

Entertainment: Hamilton Musical

Using this Flutter-based app, one can stay tuned to the up-to-the-minute happenings in the world of Broadway musicals, like new videos, news concerning music, and tour schedules. The users can also buy merchandise and take part in Hamilton lottery contests. One of the most notable special offerings of this app is its Karaoke system that allows users to sing their favorite numbers.

eCommerce: Xianyu by Alibaba

The mobile app Xianyu, another end-product of Flutter app development, built by the China-based tech giant Alibaba, functions smoothly on Android as well as iOS. It is appealing, speedy, and easily understandable. It connects buyers with retailers under one single ecosystem. Xianyu has been downloaded more than 50 million times and claims that there are 10 million active users daily. Alibaba already had a pre-existing app with millions of users, but for a smoother UI/UX and a time-saving solution, the Xianyu team opted for the Flutter framework.

Transportation: SG BusTracker

This navigation app provides commuters with real-time information about bus schedules like the arrival time, nearby stops, as well as seating availability in them.

Real Estate: Realtor

This Flutter app enables users to have real-estate information at their fingertips. It not only allows you to effortlessly, find, sell or buy property, but also helps in other related tasks like calculating mortgage.

Bottom Line

The aforesaid examples indicate that the Flutter framework can not only create disruptive solutions regardless of the industrial sector but also fetch humongous profits for businesses.

If you too would like to harness the potential of this outstanding framework and looking for a reliable technological partner, contact Biz4Solutions today! We are a prominent Mobile app development company having highly experienced Flutter developers that are adept in creating productive app solutions for our global clientele.

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“Have you thought of a sensational app idea, but unable to decide the right software development framework for it?” Well, this is a common issue faced by several app creators and even businesses planning to build cross-platform applications, as there are a host of outstanding frameworks to choose from.

As per the latest trends, the leading cross-platform app development frameworks are React Native and Flutter. Facebook, Bloomberg, Instagram, Myntra, Pinterest, Office365 apps, etc. are products of React Native app development while Google Ads, Alibaba, Hamilton Musical, Coach Yourself, etc. are products of Flutter app development.  Both of these frameworks are loaded with several goodies. Hence, a thorough comparative analysis of these frameworks is necessary before choosing any of these.

My article compares Flutter and React Native, weighing their upsides and downsides. Reading this article will guide you through selecting the right app development framework to shape your app idea.

React Native vs Flutter: Faceoff          

React Native, introduced by Facebook in 2015, is an open-source app development framework targeting the Web, iOS, Android, and UWP.

Google’s brainchild, Flutter came into being in 2017. It is an open-source UI toolkit for developing apps for iOS, Android, Windows, Google Fuchsia, Linux, Mac, and the web.

Let’s compare them based on the following parameters.

Programming languages used

React Native is based on JavaScript, a popular programming language. The good news is that most professional developers have experience in working with JavaScript, and so a React Native app development company can easily find the required expertise.

Flutter uses Dart, a new programming language coined by Google that is not known to many developers. However, Dart is easy to master as it enables faster compiling of the native code and allows easy customization of widgets. But, one of its major downsides is that Dart skills cannot be used for non-flutter projects.

Inference: Although Dart is developer-friendly and has an easy learning curve, React Native is preferred owing to the huge resource availability for JavaScript. However, it is advisable to try Flutter, if your development team lacks prior technical experience.

UI and UX

React Native offers the following benefits regarding the UI and UX:

• The users experience a nearly-native look and feel as the widgets and buttons appear in the form of native components. As such, even Hybrid Android and iOS apps built in React Native provide a native app experience.
• Whenever the UI of the Operating System is updated; the app components get updated simultaneously.
• The React Native Developers can choose from a wide variety of external UI kits like React Native Elements, React Native Material Kit, Native Base, etc. UI kits offered by React Native are far more in number than Flutter.
• React Native provides good support to the style components of iOS.

Flutter offers the following features for User Interface.

• Flutter uses the proprietary interactive, platform, and visual widgets that are nothing but built-in UI components. These built-in components replace native components.
• Owing to its layered architecture there is good UI flexibility. It simplifies as well as fastens the processes of rendering graphics and customizing the widgets.
• Flutter’s widgets namely Cupertino and material design allow the developers to copy platform-specific native components.
• The pixel rendering feature in Flutter helps to manage each pixel on the screen. This makes the User Interface appear the same regardless of the device on which the app is installed, thereby minimizing support woes.

Inference: React Native delivers a nearly-native UX whereas Flutter provides more flexibility for creating the UI design.

Code Styling and Structure

Flutter app development eliminates the need to separate templates, data, style, etc. It allows developers to code anything from a single centralized location and gives access to all the necessary tools. But, as of now the code-sharing functionality has been implemented for Android and iOS apps only.

React Native has a more complicated code structure as compared to Flutter but employs third-party libraries to share the code across iOS, Android, Windows, and the web.

Inference: Despite Flutter’s simple and organized code structure, React Native is one step ahead as it provides more code-sharing options, enabling developers to focus on code creation without worrying about compatibility concerns.

Performance

React Native uses JavaScript for connecting with native components through a bridge whereas Flutter eliminates the need for a bridge for interacting with native components. This speeds up the developmental process.

While architecting hybrid apps with React Native, it becomes quite complex and challenging for React Native developers to run the libraries and native components without issues. Flutter contrarily eases out things for developers as the existing code can be reused effortlessly. Also, Flutter is supported by the C++ engine which ensures better performance in the end-product.

Unlike React Native, Flutter has been compiled into the native ARM code for iOS as well as Android, and so it never encounters any performance woes.

Inference: Flutter surpasses React Native in terms of performance.

Other differences

• React Native offers APIs that support Bluetooth, Geo-location, and other features. If there is a requirement for native interfaces like Wi-Fi, NFC payments, biometrics, etc., React Native is the right choice. But it lacks the tools required to customize the graphics. Flutter, apart from easily offering various APIs, makes use of the Skia Graphics Library that processes the graphics and loads apps faster.
• Owing to the ready-to-use components, React Native involves a speedier development cycle than Flutter.
• Flutter’s documentation is well-organized, detailed, and easy to understand while React Native’s documentation is a bit disorganized.
• Hot Reloading works much faster in Flutter than in React Native.
• Flutter, being a newbie lacks the strong community support that is enjoyed by React Native.
• React Native offers lesser testing tools and depends on third-party toolsets. Flutter, on the contrary, offers a rich toolset to test apps at the widget, unit, and integration levels.

Final Verdict

Both Flutter and React Native possess specific strengths and have some drawbacks too. Therefore, the choice of framework depends on your project requirement.

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