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Re: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

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Post by _bxg1 »

adamqureshi wrote: post #50
_bxg1 wrote: post #28

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Well the obvious advantage of using React Native is portability to Android. The less-obvious advantage is partial portability to the web (would still take additional dev work, but some code could be shared) and the ability to hire JavaScript developers instead of Swift developers, of which there are lots more. But if it's definitely an iOS exclusive and you don't plan on scaling your dev team up massively in the futu…

Thank you! Yeah for version 1 its iOS, most of my customers are on iphone. the other thing i need feedback on is, do i charge charge $1 to download the app or not? i do plan to charge to list your item for sale. Last i heard apple takes 22%? no way im gonna run ads on it.

Unfortunately I have no qualifications to give an opinion on that question

Re: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

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Post by je42 »

askthrowaway wrote: post #49
oorza wrote: post #34

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(six months into a react-native project) RN isn't production-ready/stable yet either. They're about to do a major overhaul of the internals because of fundamental flaws that have been surfaced by the community. While it's possible to use RN in production, "stable" is a laugh... there are monthly releases and almost all of them have some kind of breaking changes, so pacing RN releases is a huge fucking hassle. For exa…

Also the bug introduced in 0.55.3 where deleting from TextInput a few times make it very slow.. To fix it I have to upgrade to higher version which drops support for iOS 8 !!

they broke fetch's cookiesupport in one release...

Re: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

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Post by bybjorn »

_bxg1 wrote: post #48
bybjorn wrote: post #46

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Why are you not even considering Flutter? Flutter has all the needed Firebase libraries and AFAIK better performance than RN (no bridge)

Flutter isn't yet at a 1.0 release. It looks very cool and I'm excited about it personally, but compared to React and Swift it has less stability and far less tooling support and developer knowledge. There's also reason to believe that it could be abandoned by Google down the line: it's being developed by the Dart team, but it's inherently at odds with the Android team because it circumvents their API almost entirely…

Re; abandoned - yeah one never knows but Dart is a pretty integral part of Google these days with Adwords being built on it. Also I think that Google knows it will lose some developers to multi-platform solutions like this, so they might as well lose them to their own alternative (than say, react native).

As for tooling support - what's missing? It has had hot reload since the start and there's the Flutter plugin for IntelliJ IDEA (can be used with the free Community Edition btw) which includes everything you expect from IDEA in addition to things like Flutter Inspector etc. https://flutter.io/inspector/

Re: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

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Post by kkkk460 »

E-commerce Flutter App : https://github.com/Praneet460/E-commerse_App/tree/master/flu...

Avenger Gallery Flutter App: https://github.com/Praneet460/Avengers-Gallery

Chat App using flutter: https://github.com/Praneet460/Flutter-Codelabs/tree/master/f...

Flutter 3D Animation: https://github.com/Praneet460/Flutter-Animation/tree/master/...

Re: Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native or Flutter?

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Post by ponyous »

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meme-generator-by-zombodroid...

The app on play store has 10m+ installs, I had to clone it to iOS and since I'm a web dev I used React Native. Haven't seen stats for sometime but I assume it has 100k+ MAU at this point.

Another one: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/in-window-social-experience-...

This is the first app I built (with a team). Development started with React Native version 0.7. And I think it's a good example of possible user interactions. Example app features:

- Gyro to "navigate" around images (looks neat and it's smooth, not sure you can do much better with native)

- Blur & parallax scrolling (On old phones (iPhone 5 and less) performance could become a little janky)

- Lists with 1000s of items (just want to say performance is good if you handle it properly)

^ Note: you need to register to see anything in this one

React Native has come a long way, but most of the stuff was already possible two years ago. Personally I never found myself in a situation where something wouldn't be possible. If it was impossible in RN then we simply made a bridge to Obj-C and boom, double the ecosystem of available libraries.

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