Minimizing the costs of building complex cross-platform applications with flutter and firebase

Abstract

In our time one of the most if not the most common types of services is client-server ones. There are many frameworks written in many programming languages for both client applications and server ones, especially considering many different popular operating systems that are used by people today. With this many options, the question of which technologies to use to achieve the goal with minimum sacrifices is always relevant and in this article, we research what might be one of the most convenient technologies for client-server development not only for applications with relatively small amount of users but huge ones as well that allows for 1-2 developers to relatively quickly develop, release and maintain big systems with multiple client applications. As a result of the work, there has been performed a research on the technology for developing cross-platform applications – Flutter, the easiness of its use, and its advantages compared to alternatives, on Firebase services for minimization of the costs to customize the server and on the combination of these technologies for modern client-server application development.