Technology has truly transformed the way we live or use apps for that matter. It has significantly changed the living criteria of humans and will surely bring many other differences in the future. Well, digital innovation solutions like that of IoT-based applications are one such aspect of it. The term ‘IoT’ has only been around for a few decades, but in that time, it has experienced significant growth and development.

When it comes to developing cross-platform apps, Flutter is one of the top choices that comes to developers' minds. But, what’s the reason behind it? Thanks to the innovative cross-platform development capabilities offered by the Flutter framework, creating native applications for both Android and iOS platforms has become remarkably simple.

Our digital world is brimming with an infinite number of gadgets that operate on multiple operating systems. So, how do you go about creating a mobile app for your business that can reach broader audiences efficiently and effectively without any glitches? Well, that’s a tough nut to crack! As the resources necessary to develop applications for multiple platforms and choosing the best mobile app development company may be cumbersome for small businesses.

You definitely must have heard about this one term fluttering in the air: ‘Flutter’. Flutter, a relatively new mobile app development framework, has been gaining a lot of popularity among mobile app developers in recent years. Don’t you agree? But why is that so? Are other frameworks not up to the mark? Or is it just the simplest and ever-evolving tech stack?

Flutter, Google's open-source UI toolkit, has gained immense popularity for building natively compiled applications for mobile, web, desktop, and embedded devices from a single codebase. With its versatility, developers have embraced Flutter for creating dynamic and responsive user interfaces. However, when it comes to test automation, Flutter apps require a unique approach due to their underlying architecture.

“It’s no use! I can’t run an end to end test with Flutter’s integration tests”, exclaimed one of our customers about 9 months ago. I asked what the problem was and they explained that they were using Google Authentication for logging in and used the google_sign_in package for and it wasn’t possible use Flutter’s integration tests to interact with the login screens.

In Flutter’s early days in 2019, I developed a live object detection system for a major German company, despite the platform’s constraints. With release of Flutter 3.7 and advancements of TensorFlow have catalyzed the need to refine or overhaul this approach. This article discusses the newest techniques in live-stream object detection as showcased in the flutter-tflite GitHub repository.

Mobile developers using Javascript-based mobile application development platforms such as Cordova, Ionic and React Native have enjoyed the benefit of being able to push app updates over-the-air without resubmitting their apps to the App Store or Google Play for quite some time. As long as the updates are not compiled code, and don’t change the primary purpose of the application then both Apple and Google allow this.

The success of an app in today’s fast-paced digital economy primarily relies on its speed to market, smooth user experiences, and practical development methods. Flutter, Google’s open-source UI framework, has emerged as a significant changer in app development. Flutter’s own set of benefits allows developers to build spectacular cross-platform apps quicker than ever before.

Dart and Flutter are a powerful duo when building software applications, ranging from mobile apps - Android and iOS; to desktop apps - Linux, Windows, and macOS. Flutter is sufficient to handle most application features. However, some apps involve deeper integration with their platform components. Flutter boasts of smooth and easy-to-setup mechanisms for communication between Flutter and platform hosts.