Flutter vs. Other Mobile Development Frameworks: A UI and Performance Experiment

Post by pjmlp » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 8:44 AM UTC

braindongle wrote: post #28

Looking at Flutter vs React Native, the only comparison of interest for, perhaps most of us, Flutter for the win! Lower dev resources and way lower cpu usage. Dart is lovely, the docs are great, wide array of great UI widgets, and easy animation. As for hot reloading, well, you just have to experience the difference.

Post by pjmlp » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 8:45 AM UTC

dickjocke wrote: post #45

siquick wrote: post #30

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> Lower dev resources Learning a completely new language in Dart to even get started with Flutter doesn't seem like low dev resources. With React Native you are using: - Javascript which most devs have a grasp on in 2020 - JSX which really isn't much different to HTML - Styling is practically just CSS with slightly different property formatting and naming If you've decided to go down the RN then theres a decent chanc…

Learning Flutter is really easy. I know everyone says it, but I encourage everyone to spend one Saturday trying to build some toy app with a single Google Maps screen or something. I fought with React Native for so long because it's dominant but I don't think I can ever go back. I never found myself getting truly comfortable with it or feeling like it did what I expected. Im a backend dev so I really love that flutte…

Post by pjmlp » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 8:55 AM UTC

dcow wrote: post #68

shubham_sinha wrote: post #63

X vs Y thing is always fun to read. We would all agree that Native apps are still better than RN and Flutter ones. So choosing either platform is a decision you need to take whether you want something fast and compromise on few thinks like look and performance or you want something solid. Secondly the issue with flutter is Dart. If you're a startup with 3 guys, working on Go lang for backend APIs, React / Svelte for…

Flutter isn’t going to get shelved. It is the UI framework for Fuchsia. I agree Dart is its biggest problem but Fuchsia prides itself on not having a single system language so I’m sure you’ll be able to target the flutter framework from kotlin and swift and rust and go soon. Also Dart isn’t hard.

Post by afro88 » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 9:07 AM UTC

novok wrote: post #101

One thing missing from the benchmarks was one on iOS. I'm curious how the cross platform frameworks compare to iOS native, since iOS apps are not garbage collected typically. Also startup time is another interest to me, I've heard flutter apps tend to have slower startup times.

Post by pjmlp » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 9:49 AM UTC

distances wrote: post #118

pjmlp wrote: post #113

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Xamarin and Qt also give me the same, with more useful industry programming languages.

Both of which are now practically deaf on mobile. Flutter comes from Google, and while that doesn't guarantee it'll live, at least it has better potential.