Building a Cross-Platform Food Delivery App With Flutter
The client
Lunching is a concept app for corporate food delivery, where employees order lunch to the office from restaurants nearby. It shows the closest restaurants, the best deals and the full menu for today, wrapped in a four-click ordering flow and animated food photography.
It was built internally, inspired by the delivery apps changing how takeaway works.
The challengeWhat the teams actually needed
This was pure R&D. The goal was learning a new framework and finding out whether Flutter really works.
Challenge 01Testing a framework properly
The team wanted certainty about whether Flutter is a good choice for mobile development, which needs a real project rather than a demo.
Challenge 02A category that suits it
Food ordering apps fit Flutter well: low complexity, but they need beautiful design for the food photography and an ordering flow quick enough that nobody gives up.
Challenge 03Sceptical developers
A React Native developer and an Android developer were asked to work in Flutter, and both started out doubtful about it.
What we did
A cross-platform food delivery app, built to learn from
The team concentrated on core functions so complete modules could be implemented and real conclusions drawn.
Four clicks, no more
A deliberately short ordering flow means nobody spends their lunch break choosing lunch.
Food photography that sells
Beautiful animation around the food photography is what a delivery app lives on.
Flutter, evaluated
Working in Flutter changed the team’s minds: a responsive app that genuinely feels native, stable and fast.
Dart is approachable
Dart turned out easy to learn and suitable even for an entry-level developer, which matters for whether a framework can be adopted at scale.
Tech stackThe tools that made it possible
01
Flutter
The framework the whole project existed to evaluate.
02
Dart
Flutter’s language, which proved straightforward to pick up.
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