Characteristics of Flutter mobile development

1. Free and open sources.

2. Based on Dart. Dart is a fast object-oriented programming languange which is in itself easy to learn.

3. Provide its own widgets because it drawn with its own high-performance rendering engine. There are fast, pretty and customizable.

4. Flutter apps look and feel great. The reason is because you can create your own custom app design, but also use readily available user interface elements following specific platforms' guidelines.

When to choose Flutter mobile developent

1. If you want to reduce time-to-market as much as possible.

2. If you plan to scale the app across different platforms and operating system.

3. If you like experimenting with new, not fully mature technologies.

Pros of Flutter mobile development

• Saves time and money

Flutter allows to use the same code base for building separate iOS and Android apps. The means that don't need two teams working on code for a single platform to speeds up the whole development process.

• Hot reload

Flutter makes it possible to make changes to the code and see the results immediately in the app prieview without the need to recompile the code. You can easily fix bugs and experiment with different user interface elements and features once you're at it throught this way.

• Full customisation and fast rendering thanks to Flutter's layered architecture.

It let you overlay and animate graphics, video, text and conrols without limits.

• Works for web and offer proper documentation.

Flutter allowing to check how native controls work.

• Separates user interface from native controls.

Flutter eliminates a lot of nuances and errors made by smartphone manufacturers. These might nit happen too often, but are difficult to omit with native development. Separate user interface also means having a uniified view on all system versions without an effort.

Cons of Flutter mobile development

• An immature framework.

It hasn't been around for long because it's still not entirely stable. A number of more or less problematic issues also remain such as a lack of more advanced features that leverage the capabilities of operating systems. Many of these features are not yet supported, with plenty of libraries being in the pre-alpha stage and showing limitations when comparing them to native counterparts.

• Dart is pretty immature.

It's basically like taking a step back because it has either fewer features or the existing ones are not exactly well-refined comparing it to Swift and Kotlin.

• Quite large and "heavy" to start with.

They occupy a lot of space and take longer to download or update.

• Not 100% same as with native solutions.

Actually, Flutter doesn't create native components. It somewhat replicates Android's Material Design and iOS-specific components with Cupertino library, but it's not exactly the same. It's visible especially with different system versions where test fields or buttons vary from one another, yet stay the same in Flutter.

• No single "guidelines" when it comes to developing Flutter apps.

Flutter can be problematic when building more complex software.

• Dart language are Changing rapidly at time.

It can make maintaning the code difficult in the long run. The future of Flutter might still be uncertain.

References

1. Flutter Pros & Cons – Should You Use It In Your Project? (November, 2021). Retrieved from https://invotech.co/blog/flutter-pros-cons-should-you-use-it-in-your-project/.

2. Flutter Pros & Cons for Mobile App Owners. (November, 2021). Retrieved from https://www.thedroidsonroids.com/blog/flutter-in-mobile-app-development-pros-and-cons-for-app-owners.

3. Pros & Cons of Flutter Mobile Development. (November, 2021). Retrieved from https://www.futuremind.com/blog/pros-cons-flutter-mobile-development.