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Introduction In the world of e-commerce B2B listing apps have always been popular. B2B apps serve businesses in the best way to render the optimum quality of products that they require. The business listing applications help businesses to list their products and get customer leads from there.  They can avail of various services from these apps. For example, OLX is one of the popular B2B listing applications where one can list their product after completing some formalities and can also deal with products in need.  The foremost factors for developing B2B listing apps on flutter   Segmented customer profiles Have a classified consumer group. The B2B groups can be formed according to various profiles and can be filtered accordingly such as geographical location, product quantity, order volume, etc. According to the shopping cart experiences of the  Customer pricing and catalogue On B2B apps the customer has showcased the catalogue and pricing. Assigning different prices according to the customer group is a major outlook of these apps. As well as these applications providing dealing services do not let you have transactions. Volume purchase B2B marketplaces majorly deal in a heavy volume of products. B2B apps on flutter have the functionality to customize the quantity by filtration. These filtrations can reduce or increase the volume of your product to be purchased. Along with Reordering previous purchase Flutter can add functionality in your B2B apps to avail service to reorder the previous purchases. Through the history section, one can access information about past orders.  User customization The user can customize various functionalities and can update his business profile accordingly. Flutter arranges all the customization through its plugins and widgets. These plugins help to avail various customization. B2B listing apps fostering the app development  B2B apps have a significant space in app development. As these apps work well in various domains and are significant in uplifting various businesses. Flutter is a new tech stack, not popular as other cross-platforms due to its new programming language dart and other domains. But it is a future tech stack. Developing your B2B app not only provides new features but also heads up to grab future opportunities.  We are a full-stack app development company providing vibrant flutter app development services. To uplift your business we can deliver services best suited for you. 

Introduction Music is all-pervasive and is working as a medicine. Developing a music app is a great idea as it has the power to engage audiences very frequently and can get users’ attention easily. One of the positive points of mobile apps like Spotify on Flutter development, it has a large market share which significantly adds to the success of music apps.  Being the best app development company we render music apps with flutter functionalities and features that will blow your mind. Our flutter app developers worked on various music apps used in daily life getting an immediate market response. So, here in this blog, we will guide you on key elements to increase your app’s significance in the market.    Points to consider before building a music streaming app Streamlining your ideas and getting all the necessities fulfilled is the foremost step you need to consider to develop a music app on flutter. Sort your requirements in the project by choosing the type of music streaming app, its platform, licensing, and data storage.  Here we have listed some points which need to be considered beforehand to develop a music streaming app Types Firstly, you need to discover your type of music app. Majorly, there are three kinds of music streaming apps.  Music Library  These are server-based apps where you provide various content on the subscriptions or it can be free. Examples such as Spotify or Apple Music Cloud Storage These kinds of music apps allow you to store your app which means publishing or streaming the song on any other platform without any app security measures. Example AudioBox Radio Stations These apps provide special radio stations with the availability to stream on other platforms    Platform Majorly we develop a mobile app like Spotify on Flutter for two platforms; Android and iOS. So, it will be very beneficial if you prepare a cross-platform application for both platforms at once. Hence, flutter will help you a lot as it is a cross-platform app development framework which makes it easier and saves time & resources.   License You can allow your users to use your services for free without any subscription. But as a mobile app owner, you need Public Performance rights as a license.    Data storage Data storage is one of the most important aspects to store content in a music app. It can be done by fetching third-party streaming APIs or you can create your own data storage-based app.   Use of plugins and packages  By adding relevant plugins and packages you can add various functionalities to the app. In flutter, you can get various plugins and widgets which will help you to increase the performance of your app.   Essential features of music streaming mobile app through Flutter  Flutter is Google’s toolkit to perform tasks across platforms and is open-source providing enormous services and features.  Search online songs Beautiful UI with multiple themes including light themes and dark theme Language options Background play support  Play / Stop / Pause Previous / Next Albums  Shuffle Favourites list Download Beautiful screens Songs suggestions Top tracks, Recent songs, Random songs Album view, Artist view Themes- Dard and light Landscape mode   Music streaming app development process on Flutter  Select packages You can select packages according to the features and functionalities of your application. According to your requirement, your package will be decided and implemented in the flutter development process.    Setting up the project Importing packages after sorting and checking the deliverables is an important aspect of setting up the project.   Play Music With the use of the internet and assets, music is played. By the creation of an audio manager instance, this task is performed. Though, an Audio manager works on rendering with start () which assists to play the music. This works with title, cover, description, and auto.    Fetching the music from external links With the two options, one can store data to the backend, by developing its own storage or by integrating third-party APIs. You can use FutureBuilder or FlutterAudioQuery to fetch the music files from external sources.    Setting up the audio After getting the data it needs a setup. Placing it in its right position with significant information.   Creation of control panel While adding music functionality start() it also needs to add a control panel. The control panel includes a Play/pause, a previous and next button and it also has a repetition button.    Duration of the song Song duration addition is the part of the control panel    GitHub app  Registering the app Spotify on Flutter Github will provide a large marketplace to sell the app and get good marketing.    Our Flutter app  We have developed a very vibrant Flutter application. VibesR is our music app providing various functionalities with smooth runtime. Contact Us

Introduction Flutter was introduced in 2018 by google to develop cross-platform native mobile applications. The UI of flutter is impressive and the toolkit provides various modern and reactive solutions for app development. Flutter widgets framework works on Google's in-house Dart language which seems much easier to learn than other programming languages.  Though, one of the most impressive features of the Flutter framework is its widgets. We can say flutter is everything because of its diverse widgets and is most considered by developers. Whatever you code in flutter it will be basically inside the widget. The central idea revolves around how your application will look and how it will portray the base idea about your app. This will basically help to make Flutter future-ready for enterprise app development The collaboration of widgets actually builds your app. In short, everything you see in your app is a widget from design, to display to features. Widget in flutter is used to determine what to draw on the screen. This is the hope the flutter widget works:  [Root] My app Material App My Home Page Scaffold Center Column Text App Bar  FloatingActionButton   Icon This is how flutter works in layers on the screen. Once the flutter widget is created it can't be changed means that they are immutable. Though, Flutter handles this by changing the whole set of widgets. When an application needs change, it gives flutter a new set of widgets. Though, this sounds like a waste of time and effort. But Flutter is designed in a way that it can handle updates in the widget try very efficiently. Behind the scenes elements and render objects keep track of where the widget is in relation to other widgets, whether things need to be rebuilt based on state, and updating the screen as needed.  Types of widgets Generally, flutter widgets are of two types visible including output and input and invisible layout and control. These are the basic types of flutter widgets. Let's briefly get into this.  1. Visible Widgets  Visible widgets are basically related to the user input and output data. Here are some crucial types of visible widgets. Text The text widget is one of the important widgets as it covers a prominent place in the application. The text widget can be aligned through the textAlign. Even though style one can customize the text according to the need. It covers font, font weight, font style, letter spacing, colour, dimensions, and many more.  Button This widget helps in going towards other functions through the action of click. As all the flutter developers are well known for the fact that flutter does not allow to use of the button widget directly so it uses other buttons such as RaisedButton and Flat button.  Image Images create a visual appearance in your application so introducing effective images into your app is a must. This widget can be fetched through various other sources as well it can be through the asserted property or from the URL. image loading needs various constructors, these are: Image: It is a simple image loader, that works through ImageProvider. memory: It loads from the memory. network: It loads through the network. asset: It loads your image through the project asset folder. file: It loads through the system folder. How does an image widget work? To add an image firstly the developer needs to create the asset folder where all the images are stored and then add the Image. asset('assets/computer.png') in the pubspec.yaml file. Icons This widget is the storehouse for adding icons to your application. Icons are also one of the major aspects of the visual representation of your app. The following code is generated to add an icon to your app. Check the  example below: 2. Invisible Widgets Invisible widgets have layout and control properties. These widgets are actually what manage the working of visible widgets. These deliver how other layouts are going to look and function on the screen.  Column This widget enables all the widgets to be arranged in vertical alignment. The spacing is used through crossAxisAlignment and mainAxisAlignment properties. These alignments have different properties. The cross axis uses the horizontal axis and the main axis uses the vertical axis.  Row This widget works similarly to the column widget. The major difference between both is the representation; the row widget is represented horizontally. This widget is exactly opposite to the column its cross axis is the vertical axis and the main axis is the horizontal axis. Padding  This widget provides padding in some specified directions as instructed and as specified in the design.  Why Widget is important? Flutter SDK is nothing without a widget. As we have said earlier Flutter is nothing without its widgets. Flutter has various widgets which showcase different functionality on screen and even every widget has its own particular purpose. Though, putting up an individual widget together add up to a great interface. Though, flutter widgets built the best native applications. Develop your application with Appic Softwares We develop the best flutter applications with our dedicated flutter developers. To know more check our portfolio and contact us for the best app development experience. Contact Us

Introduction Do you want to get the best mobile development solution and develop your app more quickly and with ease? Want to reduce the cost of development on cross-platform development? But do not have an idea of which technology to choose? Here we got you the solution by comparing the two best market technologies of cross-platform development Flutter or React-Native from the developer’s perspective. This will help you to gain insight into what to choose for your mobile development.  So, first and foremost we understand what these two technologies are and what they are best in.  What is Flutter? Flutter is a cross-platform development framework to develop natively combined apps across mobile apps, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Development on a single codebase is the luxury that flutter provides to the developers.  Flutter is officially released by Google in 2018. Recently, in May 2018 Google launched a newer version of Flutter its Flutter 2.2.0 What is React Native? React Native is an open-source mobile application development framework basically used to develop native applications for cross-platforms. It uses JavaScript language. Introduced by Facebook in 2015.  Let’s look deep into the pros and cons of both frameworks and try to get a better understanding.  Pros of Flutter 1. Hot Reload  From a developer’s viewpoint, Flutter offers more powerful – and quicker – app advancement. It is probably the best thing about Flutter, appreciated by each top mobile app advancement organization. Developers can make changes to the codebase on-the-fly, and see them promptly reflected in the application. This is the Hot reload component, and it normally takes (milli-)seconds for changes to show.  The element assists groups with adding highlights, fixing bugs, and investigating novel thoughts in a moment. Furthermore, Hot Reload is extremely helpful with regard to the developers-designers joint effort.  2. Single codebase for different platforms With Flutter, developers can compose only one codebase for two applications – covering both iOS and Android platforms. Flutter is a platform-agnostic as it has customized widgets and designs which help to access the same app on two platforms. 3. Customized widgets Flutter doesn't depend on native framework segments. Flutter has its own customized designs and widgets. This is all because of the user-friendly UI which helps in this development. One of the main aspects of Futter development is its customizable widgets which allows customizing the existing widget and to develop the new one.  4. Perfect MVP development In order to develop MVP (Minimum Viable Product) for an application. MVP helps to showcase the product to the investors and works effectively to get a better insight into the product. Flutter is the one-stop solution to developing MVPs.  5. Supportive UI Mobile applications developed from Flutter are supported on all devices. This means that the mobile app runs on the older devices of iOS and android effectively without any hindrance. You do not have to worry about running the applications on older devices. 6. Faster Apps Flutter apps perform tasks frequently and quickly – without hanging. The reason behind this is that Flutter utilizes the Skia Graphics Library. On account of this, the UI is redrawn each time when a view changes. The vast majority of the work is done on GPU which helps in smooth UI working conveying 60fps (frames per second).  The redrawing while developing can create bugs while using the app. Redrawing the entire view rather than simply those components that change, can influence the performance and speed of the application, particularly on the off chance that you need to reload the view frequently. Cons of Flutter 1. Experienced Developers community? The majority will advise you: a vital benefit for React Native over Flutter is its more settled, more experienced developers. And even the flutter uses dart language which is not widely known, even JavaScript is broadly utilized and known. Flutter developer’s community needs time to establish as DART language is the biggest hindrance in performing tasks through Flutter.  2. Affluent Libraries and support Noteworthy, the libraries and the backend support are impressive but are not as rich as a native framework. Google's support for Flutter is great, yet Flutter is still very new. This implies that you can't generally discover the functionalities you need in existing libraries, so your developers may have to construct custom functionalities by themselves, which takes extra effort and time.  3. Platform Risk  Even Flutter is written on open-source and if Google chose to pull support for the project then it will be a big issue. That said, since the Google group delivered the Beta form of Flutter, it has just increased its endeavours, as outlined by Flutter's role during Google IO '19.  4. Extended App size Applications framed on Flutter are relatively bigger in size than native. The bigger app size may be an issue to run on various devices.  Pros of React Native  1. Faster Refresh and coding Basically a similar feature to Flutter. Hot Reload speeds up the improvement interaction by permitting a developer to infuse new code straightforwardly into a running app. In this way, a developer can see changes quickly, without modifying the app. Hot Reload additionally holds the application's state, staying away from the danger of losing it during a full reload which is accelerating the mobile app advancement measure much further.  2. One codebase, 2 mobile stages This is also similar to Flutter: compose a single codebase to control 2 apps – covering both Android and iOS platforms as a cross-platform developer. The React Native libraries provide a distinct variety to develop the application by creating codes for the different platforms. The libraries such as React Native for web, RectXP, react-native windows, etc.  3. Use of JavaScript  It utilizes a popular mainstream language JavaScript, a programming language that has numerous well-known developers while Dart is yet not really broadly known or utilized. This is one of the biggest advantages of the React Native framework as it has a lot of well-known writers who can efficiently perform tasks on the native platforms.  4. Developer's freedom to choose React Native allows developers to fabricate cross-stage apps. It provides developers with a way to make decisions with respect to performing various tasks. The benefit is that React Native permits the developer to choose decisively what arrangements they need to utilize; both as per the task's necessities as much as the developer’s ease.  5. Easy to learn and comprises a vast community Respond Native has a huge developer community. Yet, there are innumerable instructional exercises, libraries, and UI structures that make it simple to get familiar with the innovation which helps in speedy and simple to perform tasks. Even though it is easy to learn. Even the react developers can easily work on this. The developers utilize mainstream React arrangements, and can undoubtedly work with React Native, without learning new libraries.  Cons of React Native 1. Supports only basic components  React Native supports only some fundamental segments out of the box. It has limited the changes as the developer can utilize components in a project however this requires extra exertion and time. Though the Flutter is designed to help in customizing elements, the system upholds significantly more gadgets. It saves time. A developer utilizing Flutter can make better perspectives from developed widgets that are effectively adaptable and customized. 2. Opportunity to take a decision This works both ways as an advantage and disadvantage for a Native developer. While creating a new project a developer needs to decide various aspects including a navigation package and which global state management to use. It usually takes a lot of time to understand the variations of each solution and to choose the best one them.  3. Delicate UI  The React Native uses native components in such a way that after the UI update the components in the app will be immediately upgraded. In some instances, this can break the app's UI however it happens very rarely. What's more terrible, updates can turn out to be considerably more hazardous as they can be key to changing the Native components API.  While with regards to Flutter the app UI is significantly more steady. Though, because of the manner in which the system recreates the native components itself.   Concluding... With respect to this comparison between React Native and Flutter, we have gone through various aspects containing the pros & cons of both frameworks. The comparison come upon some significant points: React Native is simpler and easy to learn and has a large developer community.  For Flutter everything is a widget and plays a major role even the components in Native are basic. Flutter has a fast-performing base as it includes arm or x86 native libraries. The react comparatively is less performant.  Bugs on React Native take time to fix though, on Flutter this happens even faster.  Even both Flutter or React-Native is doing great as cross platforms. At last, it depends upon the developers to choose their platform for development. And on the client’s preference. Contact Us

Introduction Flutter is a new-age app development UI toolkit to build impressive UI’s with native performances from a single codebase. With the introduction of the flutter 1.22 update, it is emerging as the most preferred and a favourite toolkit for developers. Even this update carries Flutter app development services that make the development much easier and a handy experience for the users.  The framework of flutter complements all Product ideas irrespective of the space it provides with all the technical assistance. The best thing about flutter is that it provides customizable widgets to build the native interfaces in a couple of minutes or even less than it. It also integrates all the platform tools to work simultaneously avoiding differences. Its fully customized layered architecture renders flexible and expressive designs. The use of Dart native compilers makes the working more smooth.  Services of Flutter Native + Hybrid of intuitive user interfaces Planning an outstanding user interface is pretty much as significant as inserting highlights inside your Flutter app. The incompetent interface results in a client loss due to the confusion in navigating the application. To design an awful interface one can look into the end-user perspective,  consistent designs, and an effective colour balance. Flutter builds native mobile applications which results in a potent and appealing performance.  Eye-Catching Native UI In contrast to the other cross-platform apps and hybrid technologies, flutter does not need to build a bridge to integrate the native components. The rendering system of flutter makes it all easier and simplified. Though, it undergoes four steps to render the apps Layout Phase: The system decides the size of each task and its position in the design.  Painting Phase: Flutter appends every gadget to a material and orders it to be painted.  Compositing Phase: The tech assembles the entire scene and sends it to the GPU for additional handling.  Rasterizing Phase: The scene is made with the assistance of pixels and shown to the user.  Customized with Material Designs and Device Widgets Flutter widgets provide native performance for both iOS and Android frameworks and assimilate various platform differences including scrolling, fonts, icons, and navigation. The widgets were built in modern parameters taking inspiration from the native.   One of the most important aspects of Flutter's design system is widgets. In Flutter, almost everything is a widget—even design models are widgets. Basically, everything that we find on an application is a widget such as the images, icons, and text. Even the things that you don’t see are also widgets such as the grids, arrows, columns, constraints, etc.  Uses Single Codebase It has solved the problem of developers where they need to use multiple codes for different platforms. But with the single codebase feature Flutter has come up with the one-time approach. The single-time coding made it easier for the coders to develop the mobile app for iOS and Android operating systems.  Though, this codebase releases the hectic workload of developers and makes it easier for the users to perform tasks.  Consisting of DART programming language Flutter uses DART programming language which is basically a single-purpose language and provides luxury to the developers to simply understand. The language can be accessed by any level programmer to grab and work. Though, one of the impressive aspects of the dart is that it is not limited to only mobile application development though it is extensively used for desktop apps, servers,s and developing apps.   Easily maintained  Due to easy setup, customizable widgets, and the single-purpose language flutter creates a healthy framework that is easy to maintain. The single codebase helps in maintaining the app rather than other development platforms with an effortless development process. The hustle created in the development process is not possessed by Flutter.  Compliments MVP development Flutter helps to validate the ideas in the market which is a positive point for the startups to capture the market and showcase their projects. MVP is a Minimum viable product strategy, which is basically a scratch version of your mobile application including all the unique features of your app which is offered to the imminent users to check what they feel about the new offering. The concern of the offering and this strategy is to know the feedback and get to its development according to the reviews. Simply, MVP is a one-stop solution to showcase your idea, explore solutions and problems, gather feedback, rectify the backlogs, and identify market needs.  Flutter is the need of the market  Ending to the point that with the feasible services flutter is getting developers as well as market attention. With the single codebase and the MVP features Flutter easily delivers the best mobile application ideas to the market prospects. Where the needs of the clients are showcased, the backlogs are rectified and the delivers the best in-hand experience. If you have any queries about Flutter app development services feel free to contact Appic Softwares.

There is so much you can do with flutter that it makes life quick and fast for developers. Flutter is the future of app growth. Flutter is an innovative development framework for making iOS and Android applications. It is at no expense, an open-source cross-platform. It is Google-designed and is also used to build applications for Google Fuschia.  Why flutter, though?  Flutter has already become the top software development framework, allowing you to use Dart and create cross-platform apps with output comparable to native apps. Based on your specifications, many businesses offer personalized flutter app development services. What effects flutter the future of app developments? It is simple, fast, successful, and different from other frameworks. Compared to other app frameworks, it has several benefits. Flutter provides you with more versatility, native performance, and an awesome group of backups. Soon, you'll find developers who use Flutter more. There are some significant reasons for the future of app growth to be discussed.  Becomes Fast App Development Process Flutter's hot reload feature makes it very easy to try. Any improvements a developer makes can be seen in a moment and helps the bugs to be patched instantly as well. It can develop UIs, validate the bugs, and keep an eye on the new features. Provides great unity We already know that widgets and not platforms belong to the business, so it is much simpler to move between different platforms with Flutter. On various Operating Systems, there would be fewer or no compatibility problems.  Cross-platform Development Much of your time and money are saved by cross-platform development. Using Flutter allows you the ability to build, manage, and use codes only once for two separate applications. Flutter has made life simple for developers where different applications for different platforms would have to be developed earlier, only a single code would work.  Benefits to Produce Performance Flutter gets the race between React Native from Facebook and Flutter from Google, as it has the benefit of Dart plus there is no need to bind to JavaScript to start any discussion with the native elements of the system. Therefore it improves the productivity and effectiveness of development. Improves Productivity The most important feature of every company is to produce high potency. For each change they make, the developers don't need to compile code with Flutter. When you make them, all corrections are saved. This helps to improve the developers' success. Not only that, Gradle does not need to slow down the period of growth and is mainly used in iOS app development. Flutter associates developers and designers quickly, enabling quick collaboration.  More limited Coding Using the programming language Dart, Flutter is made. Dart uses the compilation of JIT & AOT that enhances the overall startup time, efficiency of service & speed. Using hot reload functionality, JIT enhances the development framework. Without creating a new one and saving the developer's efforts & time, it simply refreshes the UI. Constant Delivery & Integration Apple placed more focus on constant sharing and integration, for which it used the Xcode server, but iOS developers argued that the Xcode server in large projects is not flexible and not sufficient. Here is where, with faster distribution & integration, Flutter transforms its magic wand with high scalability.  Expressive UIs With Flutter, developers with remarkable iOS widgets can create an impressive and majestic UI. It does not allow the use of the Operating system platform's native elements to build User Interfaces like other frameworks. It is highly capable of designing its own UIs that can be used across multiple platforms of the Operating system. Binding Up Flutter app development services in India would be almost new to others, but there is a great deal of potential to improve and expand its functionality. Its things are what have attracted startups to adapt it and use it in their development. For its robustness, flexibility, and efficiency, Flutter is a winner in the development field. In Flutter App Growth, Appic Softwares has experienced and expert developers. We're more than happy to help if you have a question. At any time, you can contact us.