What is flutter ?

Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Flutter works with existing code, is used by developers and organizations around the world, and is free and open source.

Flutter uses Google’s Dart programming language & it's very easy to learn. Flutter will help you create beautiful, fast apps, with a productive, extensible, and open development model.

Want to write your first android / iOS app?

How to install Flutter?

1- Installing Flutter, Official Flutter Website
2- Visit the link & follow the simple steps.

Let's see our Hello World app in flutter.

What do you think how many lines of code is needed to make a basic app like that?

Code for above app.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() => runApp(new HelloWorldApp());

class HelloWorldApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new MaterialApp(
      home: new Material(
        child: new Center(
          child: new Text("Hello world!", style: TextStyle(fontSize: 32.0),),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Looks Easy right! Flutter is very easy to learn.

Widgets - In simple words everything you see in flutter app is a widget, example - in the above app we have a text widget.

Another Example App-

With just Code < 300 lines, we can create the above app with beautiful UI & animations.

In the next post I will be writing about app development with flutter having simple codes. I will start with a basic text widget.

#FlutterBasics

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