Difference between Ionic and Flutter

source: hiddenbrains

Native mobile applications have turned as a latest trend of the app development industry. It is the best way to reach maximum audiences with different operating systems. 

For native mobile app development, Flutter and Ionic have created a buzz in the market and have attracted millions of developers to it. 

However, these both platforms share the same vision to launch high performance apps across platforms. Apart from this, they are based on an open source attribute. If you are planning to hire an open source developer, then make sure a developer should know about these platforms and match with your project requirements. 

In  this article, let’s know about these two programming languages. 

Flutter

Flutter is launched by Google and is supported by several platforms including - Android, iOS, Google Fuchsia, Web platform, Microsoft Windows, macOS, and  Linux. According to Wikipedia, it offers a UI toolkit for crafting beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. 

• Written in -C, C++, and Dart
• New BSD License
• First version of Flutter was known as ‘’Sky’’, it was a codename 
• It was first released on the Android operating system 
• Inbuilt Java Code on Android and Objective C and Swift on iOS

This platform is growing rapidly and has been compared with top cross platform development tools. 

Ionic 
The original version was launched in 2013, it was created by Max Lynch, Ben Sperry, and Adam Bradley of Drifty Co. It is known as a mobile app framework and popular to deliver interactive UI with high performance. Ionic is mainly used to develop graphical based applications or in game development it plays a major role as due to wrapper plugins.

• Helps in hybrid and prototyping app process 
• Open Source 
• It helps to build apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript technologies. 
• Compatibilite with many other frameworks such as React and Vue. 
• Supported by international communities 
• License: MIT License
• Written in: JavaScript
• Built on top of AngularJS and Apache Cordova

These were the overview of both Ionic and Flutter platforms but now, let’s know the difference between these open source frameworks. As per differences, you can opt them as per project requirements. 

Difference between Ionic and Flutter - Ionic V/SFlutter

Role of UI

Both Ionic and Flutter share the same vision and their motive is to deliver native look and feel with the proper utilisation of UI components. Apart from this, both update the material design for Android and iOS as per the match. With readymade plugins, allows access to native API and other services effortlessly. 

Apparently, Flutter is highly opinionated. If you have decided to opt for custom native app development with Flutter, then you have to learn the Android and iOS development process with Flutter. 

Learning Part

Ionic includes several web technologies, so the learning process with Ionic is easier. But with Flutter, developers are required to learn the Dart language. So with Flutter the learning process is rather steep. 

Conclusion

For both these open source languages, it is important to choose as per your project demands. They have their own functionalities and are growing rapidly in the market. 

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