Flutter Development

Flutter's central bet is that it should not ask the platform to draw anything. It ships its own rendering engine and paints every pixel itself. That single decision explains everything people love about it and everything they complain about, and understanding it is how you decide whether it is right for you.

Impeller, and why jank stopped being the conversation

The old Skia renderer compiled shaders at runtime, which is why early Flutter apps famously stuttered the first time you opened a screen with an unfamiliar animation. Impeller precompiles them at build time. It is the default on both iOS and Android now, and the practical result is that "Flutter jank" has largely stopped being a real objection — we hold 60 fps on mid-range Android hardware through complex, animated interfaces, and 120 fps on devices with the display for it.

The consequence of owning the pixels

Because Flutter draws everything, your app looks exactly the same on an iPhone 16 and a four-year-old Samsung running an ancient Android skin. For a brand-led product with a strong custom design system, this is a genuine gift: what the designer drew is what every user sees, with no platform surprises and no per-OS QA matrix.

It is also the trade. A Flutter app does not automatically inherit new platform UI behaviour, and an interface that is deliberately trying to feel like a native iOS app — Cupertino idiom, system context menus, the exact scroll physics an iPhone user has in their fingers — is a thing you are now reimplementing rather than receiving. We use Flutter where the design is the brand's, and we use native or React Native where the design is the platform's.

State management, decided once, on day one

Flutter's ecosystem offers roughly nine ways to manage state, and the ensuing argument has probably consumed more engineering hours than it has saved. We standardise on Riverpod for most applications and Bloc where the domain is genuinely event-driven and an audit trail of state transitions has real value — regulated fintech, for instance. What matters is that the choice is made once, written down, and enforced in review, not relitigated in every pull request by whoever read a blog post most recently.

Dart, honestly

Dart 3 with sound null safety, pattern matching and sealed classes is a genuinely pleasant language, and the tooling — hot reload, the analyzer, dart format — is better than what most ecosystems offer. The cost is real, though: Dart lives essentially nowhere outside Flutter. You cannot share validation logic, types or business rules with a TypeScript web front end, and your hiring pool is smaller. If you already have a React web product, that duplication is the single strongest argument for choosing React Native instead, and we will make it to you.

What we do not use Flutter for

Flutter web. It renders to a canvas, ships a large payload, and is effectively invisible to search engines. For anything public-facing on the web the answer is Next.js, and we would not pretend otherwise to keep a project in one language.