What is Flutter and why is it a top choice for cross-platform app development?

Clarifies Flutter’s role as a UI toolkit and its benefits for targeting multiple platforms with one codebase.

Flutter is Google’s open-source UI toolkit that enables developers to build natively compiled apps for Android, iOS, web, and desktop—all from a single Dart codebase ([turn0search15]turn0search3]). Reasons to choose Flutter: • High performance via its own rendering engine and hot reload • Rich customizable UI with built-in widgets consistent across platforms • Faster development cycles and reduced code duplication ([turn0search9]turn0search45]) Category: Cross-platform / Mobile & Desktop Development Tags: flutter, dart, cross-platform, mobile, web, desktop