Flutter is a free and open-source UI toolkit developed by Google for building fast, beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, desktop, and embedded devices using a single programming language and codebase. Flutter is designed to help developers build high-performance, high-fidelity, apps for iOS, Android, and the web. Flutter uses a reactive programming model that allows developers to build intuitive, declarative, and flexible user interfaces. Flutter’s widgets incorporate all critical platform differences such as scrolling, navigation, icons, and fonts to provide full native performance on both iOS and Android. It also provides a rich set of pre-built widgets that can be customized to build new widgets or modify existing ones.
Flutter is written in the Dart programming language, which is also developed by Google. Dart is an object-oriented, garbage-collected language that supports AOT (ahead-of-time) compilation to native code for performance-critical parts of an app.
Flutter has a growing community of developers who contribute to its development and maintenance. The community provides a wealth of resources such as documentation, tutorials, videos, and sample code to help developers get started with Flutter.