Why Google invests in Flutter, and what it means for app owners?

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Victoria Belyaeva

May 10, 2022 ·

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With Flutter, feasible and intuitive cross-platform solutions is no longer a miracle. 

After the launch of Flutter’s second version in 2021, over 400,000 Flutter apps were delivered to consumers and installed on hundreds of millions of devices, ensuring a seamless user experience. Currently, there are more than 700,000 published apps in the Apple Store and Google Play platforms.

So, what makes Flutter stand out, and why does Google bet on it?

Why Google invests in Flutter

The Flutter toolkit

Flutter is an open-source tool kit designed for crafting fast, beautiful, and natively felt cross-platform portable applications targeting mobile, web, and desktop solutions and sharing a single code base. 

There have been a few releases of Flutter:

Announcing Flutter 2 – portable devices

Flutter advantages

Flutter is fast with hardware-accelerated graphics and pixel-level control over the UI, with intuitive and live coding. 

Flutter benefits:

Flutter is used by Google for a wide array of software program merchandise, and these Flutter advantages just as well make Flutter the best fit for startup businesses.

What is more, FlutterFlow makes it possible to generate clean code and deploy it to online stores or the web in one click

Plus, due to the aforementioned benefits of Flutter apps, it is extremely easy to build the MVP version of the product and have it shipped to the online audience.

Check the blog article What’s New in Flutter 2 to get acquainted with the technical peculiarities of this release.

It may be helpful to visit the What’s new official resource — a part of the Stay up to date section — for the Flutter and Dart update release updates.

Flutter roadmap

Flutter’s Flutter developer roadmap is to transform the world of software engineering. It will focus on:

  • performance
  • quality
  • security
  • features
  • research
  • updates
  • records and patterns enhancements
  • breakthrough graphics performance
  • smooth integration for web and mobile
  • being early to new and emerging architectures
  • ongoing focus on developer experience

What’s next for Flutter — Roadmap diagram 

The vision for Flutter described in more detail in Flutter Forward video review is going to shed greater light on the Flutter roadmap.

Releasing updates and improvements on a more or less trimestrial basis, the Flutter community and developers want to make certain each and every asked-for feature is being approached.

Google’s plans associated with Flutter

All these Flutter advantages make Flutter come out as a unique, outstanding solution. 

“Here at Google, we’re depending on Flutter, and over a thousand engineers at Google are building apps with Dart and Flutter.”— stated in “Announcing Flutter 2” published on Google Developers blog resource.

Likewise, the major key role of Flutter is proved in What’s next for Flutter: “At Google, too, we’re finding Flutter a valuable tool, enabling teams like Google Classroom to deliver high-quality solutions to mobile and web users…With Flutter, we reduced the code size by 66% for the same functionality… this means less bugs for each platform and less tech debt in the future.” – Kenechi Ufondu, Software Engineer, Google Classroom.

What’s next for Flutter — New directions for Flutter and Dart diagram

One more quotation should be mentioned from What’s next for Flutter official blog post article: “Our fourth and final area of investment for the future is a continued focus on developer experience, across both Flutter and Dart.”

The goal set in front of Flutter is to be a game changer and to fundamentally alter the way the developers build apps. Now not only the platform itself should be in focus, but rather the experience a software engineer wants to create.

Popular apps like WeChat, Grab, Yandex Go, Nubank, Sonos, Fastic, Betterment, and realtor.com are using Flutter. 

Dart

Dart — the programming language Flutter is based on – is a multi-paradigm language, with C-style syntax, which makes it similar to C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, and Ruby. 

Dart is:

  • free
  • open source
  • multi-platform 
  • optimized for UI
  • easy to learn and use, with a familiar syntax

Dart enables software architects to:

  • code efficiently
  • get the advantage of the Hot Reload feature grounded on the just-in-time — JIT — compilation
  • make certain the smooth and seamless app performance is obtained due to AOT — that is ahead-of-time compilation — the compilation of the Dart code into the binary native code directly on the user’s device
  • compile to ARM and x64 machine code for mobile, desktop, and backend/server, or compile to JavaScript for the web
  • craft high-fidelity platform-independent software apps 

Released on October 10, 2011, Dart has passed a few version updates.

Announcing Dart 2.12 – the unique combination of capabilities for building apps

More peculiarities of Flutter and Dart in our Blog articles: 

With this being said, the dilemma of either having to develop multiple apps for multiple operating systems or opting to trade velocity for portability exists any longer.

With Flutter and Dart, your ideas and your creativity come to the forefront.

Fuchsia

What do we know about Fuchsia?

Fuchsia was first found in August 2016 on GitHub by media outlets and got reported as a mysterious source code. 

Developed by Google, Fuchsia is open-source software. It is capability-based with a kernel named Zircon. 

Why is Fuchsia so Important to Google? 

  • Fuchsia is expected to ensure Google’s greater control level over its hardware and software platforms
  • The code comprises its ability to be operated on various devices, such as traffic lights, digital watches, smart mobile phones, and tablets, as well as on desktop personal computers
  • One of the aims is to encourage both the Android and Chrome OS communities to contribute to the platform.

Synopsis

So, here we go, summarizing the facts. 

First is Dart — the programming language designed for crafting platform-independent, fast, and beautiful software applications.

Then, goes the Flutter SDK — the environment where the developer is empowered to deploy Dart and other programming tools for shipping these apps, which are unique and magnificent in design, intuitive, and lovely in use.

And, finally, is Fuchsia — a new platform-independent operating system with the possibility of being run on desktops, tablets, cars, traffic lights, as well as on a variety of other electronic devices of similar kind.

All of these statements are the reasons why Google invests in Flutter. The flexibility of code produced and the programming options themselves expand the sphere of use and therefore the degree of overall influence and significant weight in the technical field.

TBR Group — Flutter mobile app development company

TBR Group is a software engineering company located in Ukraine. Our main priority is to deliver multi-platform mobile apps built with Flutter and Dart.

Use cases

Our Cases page displays the benefits of Flutter apps and the selected case studies of the shipped applications in a variety of domains. For instance: 

  • baby care
  • babysitting
  • Text-To-Speech / Speech-To-Text and productivity
  • online medicine
  • veterinary
  • music
  • digital payment

Swishboom

The Swishboom application is an online platform for families to demand babysitting services from caregivers.

Swishboom mobile app: “Address Search”, “Find a Sister” and “Calendar” pages.

Swishboom makes sure that families striving for babysitting services can find eligible care providers.

Babymates

Babymates mobile app: “Start” and “Chat” pages.

Babymates app has been developed for dads and oriented on how to be fathers in the most fascinating way. 

A dad joke generator feature ensures a new joke to keep the mood high and bright!

Neural Reader

Neural Reader Most Natural TTS — is the Text-To-Speech audio reader, and the Speech-To-Text transcribe tool.

Neural Reader: “My Library”, “Dictation” and “Converting text” pages.

VinciLabs

VinciLabs is an online medicine mobile app built with Flutter.

VinciLabs mobile app: “Blood Pressure”, “Measure” and “Take a picture” pages.

VinciLabs was designed to transfer information obtained from the patient’s devices to healthcare practitioners.

Vetsie for Vets

Vetsie for Vets is a pet care multi-platform mobile app providing online veterinary services to pet owners and vet specialists.

Vetsie mobile app: “Text / Audio message”, “Audio call” and “Book a Consultation” pages.

Being fundamental to ensure a smooth workflow for each and every user, the user feels comfortable running the interface alongside the variety of functionalities.

Wywroty Śpiewnik

Wywroty Śpiewnik is a musical app that contains around 25,000 guitar and ukulele arrangements of Polish and songs popular all over the world.

Wywroty Śpiewnik mobile app:  “Start”, “Lyrics and notes of the song” and “Popular” pages.

pingNpay

The mobile app pingNpay — the digital way to pay — is a financial processing program focused on micropayment transactions. The sum of payment should not exceed £20.

pingNpay mobile app: “Pay”, “Receive” and “Create a Dynamic QR Code pages.

Summary

This being said, TBR Group has already gained experience in crafting cross-platform mobile apps. 

You are invited to study our expertise and feedback received on our About page. 

You are most welcome to reach out to TBR Group by filling out the Contact Us form. 
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