Flutter Development

Flutter's big bet is that it should not ask the phone to draw anything. It brings its own drawing engine and paints every pixel itself. That one choice explains what people love about it and what they complain about. Understand it, and you can decide if Flutter is right for you.

Impeller, and why jank stopped being the conversation

The old Skia renderer prepared shaders while the app was running. That is why early Flutter apps were known to stutter the first time you opened a screen with a new animation. Impeller prepares them when the app is built. It is now the default on both iOS and Android. So "Flutter jank" is mostly no longer a real problem. We hold 60 fps on mid-range Android phones through complex, animated screens, and 120 fps on phones with a screen that can show it.

The consequence of owning the pixels

Because Flutter draws everything, your app looks exactly the same on an iPhone 16 and on a four-year-old Samsung with an old Android look. For a brand-led product with a strong custom design, this is a real gift. What the designer drew is what every user sees. There are no surprises between phones, and no QA testing for each OS.

It is also the cost. A Flutter app does not get new platform UI behaviour on its own. If you want an app that feels like a native iOS app, with Cupertino style, system menus and the exact scroll feel an iPhone user knows, you must rebuild it yourself. We use Flutter where the design belongs to the brand. We use native or React Native where the design belongs to the phone.

State management, decided once, on day one

Flutter offers about nine ways to manage state. The arguments about them have probably cost more engineering hours than they have saved. We use Riverpod for most apps. We use Bloc when the app is driven by events and a record of every state change has real value, such as regulated fintech. What matters is that the choice is made once, written down, and checked in review. It should not be argued again in every pull request by whoever read a blog post last.

Dart, honestly

Dart 3 with sound null safety, pattern matching and sealed classes is a pleasant language. The tools, such as hot reload, the analyzer and dart format, are better than what most tools offer. The cost is real, though. Dart is used almost nowhere outside Flutter. You cannot share checks, types or business rules with a TypeScript web front end, and the hiring pool is smaller. If you already have a React web product, writing the same thing twice is the strongest reason to choose React Native instead. We will tell you so.

What we do not use Flutter for

Flutter web. It draws to a canvas, sends a large download, and search engines can hardly see it. For anything public on the web, the answer is Next.js. We would not pretend otherwise just to keep a project in one language.