Flutter vs. Ionic: A Comparative Overview

Ionic is the most used cross-platform developer solution with 5M developers worldwide. It powers 15% of apps in the app store, not including thousands of apps built internally at enterprises for every line-of-business need. Ionic is unique in that it takes a web-first approach, leveraging HTML, CSS, and Javascript to build high-quality iOS, Android, desktop, and Progressive Web Apps.

Comparing Flutter with Ionic, flutter has an enormous amount of designs and Cupertino widgets, but Ionic has a larger number of packages and plugins than Flutter, In this blog, we are going to discuss how to take build in both of them.

Initial Setup

Before taking the build, we need to set up a few things to do, afterwards we are going to take the build both of them. first, we need to install Android Studio, after installing Android Studio, we need to install the java JDK file to compile and build the flutter app respectively.

After installing Android Studio properly, we are going to take the build.

Build Using Flutter

• Flutter doctor – Flutter doctor is details of the flutter versions, dart tools
• Flutter create. – Creates the sample Flutter application.
• Flutter pub get – Flutter pub get is used for getting packages as the latest version.
• Flutter build apk – This is the final command of Flutter.

Build for Ionic

Command to build the ionic application and generate the APK.

ionic cordova platform add android

This command is used for adding the android folder in the project.

ionic cordova build android

This will genearted the apk file in the folder, check the apk file.

Summary

Ionic is normally considered easier to learn for developers with web experience, as it utilizes familiar web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Flutter, on the other hand, requires knowledge of the Dart programming language, which may have a deep learning curve for few developers.