Today there are multiple tools to create applications. In addition to the native development environments, there arecross-platform frameworks, tools that allow you to design applications to work on various systems, with Android, iOS and the web being the most common. Now, with Flutter for Windows, the development of this tool is accelerated.
There are multiple options, but one of the most popular lately isFlutter. This Google tool is completely independent from the standard Android Studio and, despite being a less mature technology, it has great projection and continues to expand to practically any place where applications can be created. And after conquering mobile operating systems, he is now going for the PC of a lifetime.
Flutter for Windows is a reality: your mobile applications, now on PC and Xbox
One of the things that makes Flutter so promising is that Google’s goal for this tool is to allow us to create applications for virtually any operating system with a single code using the Dart programming language, created by Google itself in 2011. There are many tools that aspire to this, but one of the fundamental pillars of Flutter is that it does not use web technologies (except, when we compile for the web), but that each new system that arrives does so with native performance.
Flokk, a contact management application made in Flutter compatible with Linux, Windows, Mac OS and Web that you can download on GitHub.
Nowadays, if a developer created a Flutter application, it could work simultaneously on Android and iOS, also on web pages and smart screens in a more limited way (and in fact, Fuchsia OS supports Flutter). And now it also reaches computers, since weeks after announcing the arrival to Ubuntu, we have a giant leap.
Fuchsia OS is still alive: Google details one of the key aspects of the “Android replacement”Fuchsia OS is still a Google operating system loaded with mystery, but its development continues and they have taken an important step.
A few hours ago the Flutter team has confirmed that from now on, you can also create applications for Windows devices. This includes Windows 10 computers, but much more.
Like Xbox consoles.
Or even modern systems like Windows 10X, the most futuristic version of Windows.
How does it affect us as users?Well, even if we are not going to create applications, this is a good sign for the health of, not only Windows, but also Android. That Flutter allows us to create applications for Windows, Linux and Mac OS Android, iOS will allow many developments to offer us a unified experience when using a mobile with Android and a PC with Windows, a fundamental factor for productivity and entertainment applications.
Google Stadia is made on Flutter.
Google Stadia, for example, is an application created with Flutter, which opens doors for us to have a native application of Google’s video game streaming service in the near future.
If you are a developer, we recommend you take a look at Flutter. As with web projects, Flutter for Windows is still experimental, but theframeworkit’s advanced enough that you can start some cross-platform app projects. I myself was programming a personal project with Flutter, and the experience has been completely satisfactory.
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