Open-source UI software development kit for cross-platform applications
Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google . It can be used to develop cross platform applications from a single codebase for the web ,[ 4] Fuchsia , Android , iOS , Linux , macOS , and Windows .[ 5] First described in 2015,[ 6] [ 7] Flutter was released in May 2017. Flutter is used internally by Google in apps such as Google Pay [ 8] [ 9] and Google Earth [ 10] [ 11] as well as other software developers including ByteDance [ 12] [ 13] and Alibaba .[ 14] [ 15]
Flutter ships applications with its own rendering engine which directly outputs pixel data to the screen.[ 16] [ 17] This is in contrast to many other UI frameworks that rely on the target platform to provide a rendering engine, such as native Android apps which rely on the device-level Android SDK or React Native which dynamically uses the target platform's built-in UI stack. Flutter's control of its rendering pipeline simplifies multi-platform support as identical UI code can be used for all target platforms.[ 17]
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