All cross-platform frameworks offer a way to share a codebase between platforms. Though most frameworks translate that codebase into platform-specific code meaning the end result on each platform may look, feel and work differently. Flutter doesn’t require any platform-specific factors when rendering it’s UI or executing business logic. Using its own rendering engine and drawing canvas, a Flutter application will look and behave the same regardless of the platform it is running on. This means you can be confident that the design, presentation and behaviour of your application is consistent across all platforms.

Code reuse is huge in Flutter. Developers commonly say ‘everything is a widget’ expressing the fact that you can make a widget (UI component) once and reuse it in many places throughout the app. Better still, the widget will adjust to distinctive resolutions, screens, and platforms depending on where you place it. You can even wrap one widget inside another, creating as bespoke an element as you desire. This significantly speeds up the development time of applications as it reduces the repetitive and bad-practice task of copy and pasting UI and functionality.

Imagine getting immediate feedback on every action you took in life. You eat an apple and you see your skin quality improve, go for a run and immediately see a noticeable difference in your stamina. Using that immediate feedback, you would be able to pick your most desirable course of action very quickly. The same goes for hot-reloading in Flutter. This handy feature allows developers to see the changes made in their code, rendered on a real or simulated device immediately, without having to rerun or recompile the application or lose any stateful data.

In traditional languages used for native development, after a developer makes a change they have to rerun the app to see it which can take anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes. Flutter eradicated this waiting time and the development process is hugely streamlined.

There is an amazing society of developers continuously working to improve the Flutter ecosystem. Flutter was created by tech giant - Google, who also have a dedicated team releasing successive updates and improvements to make an already great product do even more for both developers and end users.