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Android Studio vs Flutter: What are the differences?
Developers describe Android Studio as "Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA". Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. It provides new features and improvements over Eclipse ADT and will be the official Android IDE once it's ready. On the other hand, Flutter is detailed as "Cross-platform mobile framework from Google". Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.
Android Studio belongs to "Integrated Development Environment" category of the tech stack, while Flutter can be primarily classified under "Cross-Platform Mobile Development".
Some of the features offered by Android Studio are:
- Flexible Gradle-based build system.
- Build variants and multiple APK generation.
- Expanded template support for Google Services and various device types.
On the other hand, Flutter provides the following key features:
- Fast development - Flutter's "hot reload" helps you quickly and easily experiment, build UIs, add features, and fix bug faster. Experience sub-second reload times, without losing state, on emulators, simulators, and hardware for iOS and Android.
- Expressive UIs - Delight your users with Flutter's built-in beautiful Material Design and Cupertino (iOS-flavor) widgets, rich motion APIs, smooth natural scrolling, and platform awareness.
- Access native features and SDKs - Make your app come to life with platform APIs, 3rd party SDKs, and native code. Flutter lets you reuse your existing Java, Swift, and ObjC code, and access native features and SDKs on iOS and Android.
"Android studio is a great tool, getting better and bet " is the primary reason why developers consider Android Studio over the competitors, whereas "Hot Reload" was stated as the key factor in picking Flutter.
Flutter is an open source tool with 69.5K GitHub stars and 8.11K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Flutter's open source repository on GitHub.
Google, Lyft, and 9GAG are some of the popular companies that use Android Studio, whereas Flutter is used by Hybrid Heroes, Policygenius, and pludoni GmbH. Android Studio has a broader approval, being mentioned in 928 company stacks & 692 developers stacks; compared to Flutter, which is listed in 42 company stacks and 146 developer stacks.
- Javascripts is the most populated language in the world.
- Easy to learn & deployed production
- Fast development
- Strong community
- Completed Documents
- Native performance with lower RAM used.
- Easy to handle native issues by using native code like Java / Objective C
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While with Ionic it is possible to make mobile applications with only web technologies, Flutter is more performant and is easy to use if you are willing to learn Dart, which is a fun language. Plus, it has awesome documentation and, while its ecosystem isn't near as big as JavaScript's is, it has a good package manager called Pub and its packages are generally high quality.
We built the first version of our app with RN and it turned out a mess in a while. A lot of bugs along with poor performance out of the box for a fairly large app. Many things, that native platform has, cannot be done with existing solutions for RN. For instance, large titles on iOS are not fully implemented in any of existing navigations libraries. Also there's painfully slow JSON bridge and many other small, yet annoying things. On the other hand Flutter became a really powerful and easy-to-use tool. A bit of a learning curve, of course, because of Dart, but it worth learning. Flutter offers TONS of built-in features, no JSON-bridge, AOT compilation for iOS.
Pros of Android Studio
- Android studio is a great tool, getting better and bet171
- Google's official android ide100
- Intelligent code editor with lots of auto-completion35
- Its powerful and robust25
- Easy creating android app5
- Amazing Layout Designer3
- Great tool & very helpful3
- Great Code Tips3
- Built in Emulator2
- Keyboard Shortcuts are Amazing Out of the box2
- Easy to use2
- Cc1
Pros of Flutter
- Hot Reload92
- Cross platform77
- Performance72
- Backed by Google63
- Compiled into Native Code53
- Open Source40
- Fast Prototyping36
- Expressive and Flexible UI34
- Fast Development34
- Single Codebase28
- Reactive Programming26
- Material Design18
- Widget-based15
- Dart15
- Target to Fuchsia15
- Great CLI Support11
- IOS + Android10
- Tooling9
- Debugging quickly7
- Easy to learn7
- Have built-in Material theme7
- Target to Android7
- You can use it as mobile, web, Server development7
- Support by multiple IDE: Android Studio, VS Code, XCode6
- Target to iOS6
- Easy Testing Support6
- Have built-in Cupertino theme5
- Good docs & sample code5
- Easy to Widget Test4
- Written by Dart, which is easy to read code4
- Easy to Unit Test4
- Community4
- Real platform free framework of the future3
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Cons of Android Studio
- Huge memory usage4
- Slow emulator4
- No checking incompatibilities2
- Complex for begginers2
- Lags behind IntelliJ IDEA1
- Slow release process1
Cons of Flutter
- Need to learn Dart22
- Lack of community support9
- No 3D Graphics Engine Support8
- Lack of friendly documentation5
- Graphics programming4
- Lack of promotion2
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