GOLIS UNIVERSITY
Chapter One
Introduction To Mobile App Development
Programs: Bachelor Degree of ICT & Software
Engineering
10/06/2025
Lecturer: Abdikarim Ali.
MBA,ICT & BBA of PM
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Introduction to Mobile Development
Introduction To mobile application
• In general, creating a mobile application is a very complex and
challenging task.
• There are many frameworks available, which provide excellent
features to develop mobile applications.
• For developing mobile apps, Android provides a native
framework based on Java and Kotlin language, while iOS
provides a framework based on Objective-C/Swift language.
• Thus, we need two different languages and frameworks to
develop applications for both iOS and Android.
• Today, to overcome form this complexity, there are several
frameworks have introduced that support both iOS along with
desktop apps.
• These types of the framework are known as cross-platform
development tools.
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Cont…..
• The cross-platform development framework has the ability
to write one code and can deploy on the various platform
(Android, iOS, and Desktop).
• It saves a lot of time and development efforts of
developers.
• There are several tools available for cross-platform
development, including web-based tools, such as Ionic
from Drifty Co. in 2013, Phonegap from Adobe, Xamarin
from Microsoft, and React Native form Facebook.
• Each of these frameworks has varying degrees of success in the
mobile industry.
• In recent, a new framework has introduced in the cross-
platform development family named Flutter developed
from Google.
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What is Flutter?
• Flutter is a UI toolkit for building fast, beautiful, natively
compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop with
one programing language and single codebase.
• It is free and open-source. Initially, it was developed from
Google and now manages by an ECMA standard.
• Flutter apps use Dart programming language for
creating an app.
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What is Flutter?
• The first version of Flutter was announced in the year
2015 at the Dart Developer Summit.
• It was initially known as codename Sky and can run on the
Android OS. On December 4, 2018, the first stable version
of the Flutter framework was released, denoting Flutter 1.0.
• The current stable release of the framework is Flutter
v1.9.1+hotfix.6 on October 24, 2019.
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What is Flutter?
• Flutter apps use Dart programming language for
creating an app.
• The dart programming shares several same features as
other programming languages, such as Kotlin and Swift,
and can be trans-compiled into JavaScript code.
• Flutter is mainly optimized for 2D mobile apps that can
run on both Android and iOS platforms.
• We can also use it to build full-featured apps,
including camera, storage, geolocation, network, third-
party SDKs, and more.
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What makes Flutter unique?
• Flutter is different from other frameworks because it
neither uses WebView nor the OEM widgets that shipped
with the device.
• Instead, it uses its own high-performance rendering
engine to draw widgets.
• It also implements most of its systems such as animation,
gesture, and widgets in Dart programing language that
allows developers to read, change, replace, or remove
things easily.
• It gives excellent control to the developers over the
system.
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Features
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History
•Flutter is a free and open-source UI software development
kit introduced by Google.
• It is used to build applications for Android, iOS, Windows,
and the web.
•The first version of Flutter was announced in the year
2015 at the Dart Developer Summit. It was initially known
as codename "Sky" and can run on the Android OS.
•After the announcement of Flutter, the first Flutter Alpha
version (v-0.06) was released in May 2017.
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History
• Later, during the keynote of Google Developer days in
Shanghai, Google launched the second preview of Flutter
in September 2018 that was the last big release before
Flutter 1.0 version.
• On December 4, 2018, the first stable version of the
Flutter framework was released at the Flutter Live event,
denoting Flutter 1.0. The current stable release of the
framework is Flutter v1.9.1+hotfix.6 on October 24, 2019.
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Advantages
•It makes the app development process extremely fast because
of the hot-reload feature.
•This feature allows us to change or update the code are
reflected as soon as the alterations are made.
•It provides the smoother and seamless scrolling experiences
of using the app without much hangs or cuts, which makes
running applications faster in comparison to other mobile
app development frameworks.
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Advantages
• Flutter reduces the time and efforts of testing.
• As we know, flutter apps are cross-platform so
that testers do not always need to run the same set
of tests on different platforms for the same app.
• It has an excellent user interface because it uses a
design-centric widget, high-development tools,
advanced APIs, and many more features.
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Advantages
•It is similar to a reactive framework where the developers do
not need to update the UI content manually.
•It is suitable for MVP (Minimum Viable Product) apps
because of its speedy development process and cross-platform
nature.
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Disdvantages
• The Flutter is a comparatively new language that needs
continuous integration support through the maintenance
of scripts.
• It provides very limited access to SDK libraries.
• It means a developer does not have a lot of
functionalities to create a mobile application.
• Such types of functionalities need to be developed by
the Flutter developer themselves.
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Disdvantages
• The Flutter apps do not support the browser.
• It only supports Android and iOS platforms.
• It uses Dart programming for coding, so a
developer needs to learn new technologies.
• However, it is easy to learn for developers.
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Course Tools
• Android Studio
• VsCode
• Git
• SDK
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