When you start a new project, one of the main concerns is development time. After all, your market is changing all the time, and the longer you wait, the bigger the likelihood that someone else will implement the idea before you, thus getting the competitive advantage. But if you have a working version of your product, either to show to investors or to gain traction of your business, you can get ahead of your competition. Many companies also start with an MVP to get to know the real needs of the users. In this article, we’d like to check if using Flutter for MVP hybrid app development is a good idea.

Flutter has been one of the hottest topics in mobile app development since December 2018, when version 1.0 of the framework was released. It’s relatively new, yet trending fast, and has already been used to develop quite a few outstanding projects. This is why today I am going to discuss some of the top Flutter apps - but before I continue, let’s have a look at the framework itself.

Google IO started 2 days ago, and, as usual, we’ve got a lot of amazing news straight from Mountain View. One of the jaw-dropping announcements was the newest feature of the cross-platform development framework, Flutter.

Mobile applications have been with us for more than 10 years. Within that time, the mobile development market has significantly changed. At the beginning developers were limited to native platform-specific applications which were not able to work on different systems. The growing demand for mobile apps brought new ideas for shortening development time. And that’s how cross-platform development was born. Near-native platforms, such as React Native or Flutter, are gaining ground and offering better opportunities to build native-like experiences. Today, we want to discuss the pros and cons of such solutions.

Choosing the right framework is one of the most important factors when you’re planning a new app. In the past there weren’t many options to choose from, developers were stuck with building native applications, using either Java or Android SDK for Android, or Swift for iOS. Nowadays, there are many cross-platform development frameworks available. However, this means that you have to make an important choice before you pick one. This won’t be easy and you will need to consider at least two factors.

As a software consultancy, we very often have an opportunity to create projects in new, modern technologies. In this blogpost, we would like to describe to you our the experience we gained  programming with Flutter, a modern, cross-platform framework created by Google.