What is Flutter?
Flutter is a mobile UI technology & SDK from Google that enables you to build native apps for multiple platforms (Android & iOS) from a single codebase written in Dart. The current release is at Beta v3 and considered production ready.
Cross-platform app development (read "iOS and Android from the same code-base") is the wet dream of many teams and companies for a long time. I've spent quite some time with projects based on HTML5 + Cordova or Xamarin.iOS / .Android (not Forms), so I have a bit of experience in the area and try to keep up with the trends.
Flutter is in everybody's mouth these days when talking cross-platform app development. Basically, Flutter is Google's approach to the cross-platform topic, based on their own programming language, Dart with a declarative UI SDK. I won't repeat the details of the language or SDK here or its features here. Head over to flutter.dev if you're interested in more.
Apple introduced their own, declarative UI development framework, called SwiftUI, when releasing iOS 13. Thinking declarative UI code often is superior to other approaches (see XAML for WPF, XAML for Xamarin.Forms or Google's argument for the approach in the Flutter docs, ), I gave it quick shot, but became frustrated quickly for all the bugs in the first releases. Hence, it was time to give Flutter a shot for my next iOS side project.
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