Learning Flutter™ — Simultaneous publication of apps for Apple and Google Android devices

Flutter is an open source framework by Google for building beautiful, natively compiled, multi-platform applications from a single codebase.

I create mobile applications that can be published in the App Store and Google Play. I'm not a hard core developer, I have professional developers working with me in my clients and contracted work. But I am a product manager / interim CTO.

It seemed to me that going through the whole process of app creation and management and documenting it for others would be useful. I've been writing requirements and producing mobile applications for decades but I thought I'd like to learn at a far deeper level about Flutter just for fun and because cross platform applications are something I have a passion for. This is my learned experience of picking up these development tools and seeing what I can do.

Of course, one does not simply publish an app.

In order to publish an app you have to plan, code, build, test, publish, operate, monitor, manage and update it. This is a familiar pattern these days, its sometimes called 'devops', and it can't be avoided, for if you skip elements of it then updating your app or managing it might become impossible over time. You don't want that! So while this collection of articles is based around Flutter it is also about all the surrounding disciplines that need to be considered as part of development and operating a cross platform mobile application and the inevitable platform behind it.