Linux Live Terminal App

Srasthy Chaudhary
3 min readSep 8, 2021

This app is created by flutter.

In general, developing a mobile application is a complex and challenging task. There are many frameworks available to develop a mobile application. Android provides a native framework based on Java language and iOS provides a native framework based on Objective-C / Swift language.

However, to develop an application supporting both OSs, we need to code in two different languages using two different frameworks. To help overcome this complexity, there exist mobile frameworks supporting both OS. These frameworks range from simple HTML based hybrid mobile application framework (which uses HTML for User Interface and JavaScript for application logic) to complex language-specific framework (which do the heavy lifting of converting code to native code). Irrespective of their simplicity or complexity, these frameworks always have many disadvantages, one of the main drawbacks being their slow performance.

In this scenario, Flutter — a simple and high-performance framework based on Dart language, provides high performance by rendering the UI directly in the operating system’s canvas rather than through the native framework.

Flutter also offers many ready to use widgets (UI) to create a modern application. These widgets are optimized for mobile environments and designing the application using widgets is as simple as designing HTML.

To be specific, the Flutter application is itself a widget. Flutter widgets also support animations and gestures. The application logic is based on reactive programming. The widget may optionally have a state. By changing the state of the widget, Flutter will automatically (reactive programming) compare the widget’s state (old and ne) and render the widget with only the necessary changes instead of re-rendering the whole widget.

Features of Flutter

Flutter framework offers the following features to developers −

  • Modern and reactive framework.
  • Uses the Dart programming language and it is very easy to learn.
  • Fast development.
  • Beautiful and fluid user interfaces.
  • Huge widget catalogue.
  • Runs the same UI for multiple platforms.
  • High-performance application.

Advantages of Flutter

Flutter comes with beautiful and customizable widgets for high performance and outstanding mobile applications. It fulfils all the customer needs and requirements. Besides these, Flutter offers many more advantages as mentioned below −

  • Dart has a large repository of software packages that lets you extend the capabilities of your application.
  • Developers need to write just a single code base for both applications (both Android and iOS platforms). Flutter may be extended to another platform as well in the future.
  • Flutter needs lesser testing. Because of its single code base, it is sufficient if we write automated tests once for both platforms.
  • Flutter’s simplicity makes it a good candidate for fast development. Its customization capability and extensibility makes it even more powerful.
  • With Flutter, developers have full control over the widgets and their layout.
  • Flutter offers great developer tools, with amazing hot reload.

GitHub Link: https://github.com/srasthychaudhary/Linux-Live-Terminal-App

Thank you !!!

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