Open AccessA multi-criteria comparison of mobile applications built with the use of Android and Flutter Software Development Kits
Author(s) -
Damian Gałan,
Konrad Fisz,
Piotr Kopniak
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of computer sciences institute
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2544-0764
DOI - 10.35784/jcsi.2614
Subject(s) - android (operating system) , computer science , benchmarking , flutter , operating system , software , embedded system , source code , static analysis , engineering , programming language , marketing , business , aerodynamics , aerospace engineering
This publication presents a multi-criteria comparison of two mobile applications built with the use of Android and Flutter SDK. The former has been implemented with Kotlin and the latter with Dart. The benchmarking process examines factors such as execution time and CPU usage during data and disk operations. During the analysis, attention was paid to the length and volume the source code, community support and the availability of libraries. The comparative analysis shows that a mobile application written using Android SDK is often not only faster and more efficient, but also has greater community support and the number of libraries available. In addition, an analysis of the source code volume showed that Flutter has more concise but more difficult to navigate code than Android.