Monday 8 July 2019

What is Flutter App?

Flutter is an open-source mobile application development framework created by Google and it is FREE. It supports cross-platform development and artificial intelligence.

Relation of Flutter & Google

  • Flutter is Google’s portable UI toolkit used by Google, developers, and organizations across the globe to produce beautiful natively-compiled applications for mobile, web and desktop from a single codebase.
  • Flutter can deliver apps on iOS and Android.
  • Flutter creates applications for Google Fuchsia as well.
  • Initial release date: May 2017
  • Stable Release: May 7, 2019
  • Preview release: May 15, 2019

Benefits of Flutter

  • Fast Development:
    • Make your app in milliseconds with Stateful Hot Reload, which also fix bugs faster.
    • A set of fully-customizable widgets include platform differences such as scrolling, navigation, icons and fonts to build native interfaces in minutes on both iOS and Android.
  • Indicative & Flexible UI:
    • Focus is on native end-user experiences.
    • It is a layered architecture of flutter which permits full customization resulting in flexible designs and smoother animations
  • Beautiful UIs:
    • Captivate your users with Flutter’s built-in Material Design and Cupertino (iOS-flavor) widgets, rich motion APIs and platform awareness.
    • Flutter enabled IDE/Editor: Complete control over pictures on the screen analyzes code and finds possible mistakes.

Examples of Flutter-built apps:

  • Alibaba  used flutter made it easy for iOS and Android on their Xianyu app, which has 50M+ downloads.
  • Google Ads use flutter to help run your ad campaigns effortlessly.
  • AppTree provides an enterprise app platform for brands like McDonalds, Stanford, Wayfair & Fermilab.
  • Hamilton Musical

Features of Flutter:

  • The Flutter Outline shows a live view of the structure of a file in your flutter project. You can rapidly drive through the code and perform refactors on your widgets with the buttons at the top.
  • Flutter apps have a considerably larger size than their native counterparts.

Language of Flutter: Dart is the main language.

Components of Flutter:

  • Dart platform: Language that has more advanced features like just-in-time execution engine, ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation on iOS. Also due to “hot reload” one can inject changes to source files during the running of the application.
  • Flutter engine: platform-specific SDKs.
  • Foundation library: APIs communicate with the engine
  • Design-specific widgets: UI design involves assembling and/or creating various widgets

Employment scope: More and more jobs for flutter development are being posted each day as more and more agencies and startups are also looking into it.

React Native and Flutter: Flutter is a much better alternative to React Native because it is actually native. It doesn’t require a JavaScript bridge to talk to OEM widgets.

What’s New in Flutter in 2019?

  • 1.0 Stable Release
  • Integrating support for Android and iOS app which are already existing.
  • Visual Studio Code and Android Studio
  • Web-based tooling debugging & inspecting.
  • Flutter can create Pixel Perfect iOS app.
  • Google maps, In-App Purchases, and Web views
  • Dart is optimized for client development

I would recommend Flutter to build hybrid applications.

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Tuesday 15 January 2019

10 January in Tech History

January 10, 2006

10 January technological event| January 10 in Tech History

The Mac Gets Intel Inside

Seven months after announcing that Macintosh computers will transition from PowerPC to Intel the first Apple computers to ship with Intel processors are released. The Intel-based iMac and MacBook Pro models will soon be followed by the rest of Apple’s Macintosh line in 2006. The importance of this transition can not be overlooked, as it enabled a level of compatibility with Windows computers never before  possible. Through virtual machine software or Apple’s later introduced Boot Camp technology, people could run Windows software directly on their Macs at the same speed as a Windows based computer. This effectively removed a huge roadblock many people had to owning a Macintosh computer, even if it was more of a psychological security-blanket for many.