Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0

Post by pjmlp » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 8:02 PM UTC

Apocryphon wrote: post #112

pjmlp wrote: post #100

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Their whole reasoning just feels like justification after fact. specially when one has experience with older development environments which offered similar developer workflows. I guarantee to you that if they had choosen a proper modern language, Flutter's uptake would be much higher. As it is, you will see many of us complain about Dart until Flutter ends up being replaced by something else, unless they force Androi…

Then why bother to post to complain? Is it necessary to also post in React Native threads about how that framework does not fit your needs?

Post by pjmlp » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 8:03 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #120

pjmlp wrote: post #105

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Material UI just happens to be the official Android UI.

Which is irrelevant to my point, which is that it's also used where it's not native.

Post by mg74 » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 8:12 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #103

mg74 wrote: post #95

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Dart is fine. Way better than Java. So don't let that stop you, you will pick it up in no time.

Nah, I rather built up my skills with C# and Xamarin, Qt and C++, or PWAs, it is more relevant to my CV.

Post by forgot-my-pw » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 8:15 PM UTC

weberc2 wrote: post #108

Would love to see something like this extended to the Linux desktop.

Post by minieggs » Tue, Dec 04, 2018, 8:20 PM UTC

on_and_off wrote: post #55

bsimpson wrote: post #47

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If you consider APIs that power its businesses, Google's support history is a lot better. Dart and Closure were never popular outside Google, but they're still invested in because they are used internally. Android and Chrome are both heavily invested in by Google, with massive external ecosystems too. Speaking in a personal capacity with no insider knowledge, I'd be shocked if Google stopped supporting either. The UI…

You mean the OS that is developed independently from Android with completely separate teams and that nobody knows where it will be in 2 years ? Since this is Google we are talking about, no warranty that this will ever go on one of their flagship phones.