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

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

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Post by sandGorgon »

socceroos wrote: post #170
sandGorgon wrote: post #151

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Nope. That boat has already sailed. And kotlin will most likely supersede Flutter because of the tooling. https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mobilecrossplatform/ (That links points to Yandex , etc who are using it in production)

That's only business logic, you still have to entirely reimplement the UI layer for each platform. Cross platform business logic isn't the killer feature that cross platform Devs are looking for.

sure. but that's going live in a couple of months. EAP was in KotlinConf.

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

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Post by dickjocke »

pjmlp wrote: post #113
dickjocke wrote: post #45

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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…

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

That's neat, im just not much of a .NET person myself and I guess that using a language/framework that is enjoyable is more valuable to me than the portability aspect. I came into React Native for those portability reasons, and it wasn't enough to keep me excited about it. I don't see how Xamarin and .NET, which im even less into, would be different.

Also I'm not sure that Xamarain or QT are really very relevant, HNSVBubble or otherwise.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=xamarin%2Crea...

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

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Post by dickjocke »

jrs95 wrote: post #72
dickjocke wrote: post #48

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Please, please try Flutter. I had literally the same issues with React Native and gave Flutter a test run late last year. I will never go back. Flutter is so stable and honestly my frustrations with Flex made consider giving up on mobile development. I think as a backend dev i really struggle with the layout aspects of mobile dev and flutter makes it so easy for me. I'd say spend two nights playing with flutter. It t…

Exactly what I was hoping to hear, I'll get started with it this weekend :)

Did you do it?

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

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Post by PunksATawnyFill »

Kiro wrote: post #110
Benjammer wrote: post #42

This is super interesting, but the problem I have is that this guy's eye for design leaves a lot to be desired. When was the last time someone built a clunky table directly into the UI and added fully styled table rows dynamically? Why not modernize the design, and use a styled list view with a data adapter and try this again on each platform? It didn't surprise me at all that he struggled with the table in basically…

What's wrong with tables and what does styled list view mean?

I guess we're not going to get an answer...

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

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Post by kdot »

siquick wrote: post #30
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.

> 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…

Any competent dev will be functional in Dart in days. Flutter really is fantastic, I like being in Dart 90% of the time, no XML, no Storyboard. Currently employed on a Flutter project, hopefully jobs aspects improve.

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

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Post by dogprez »

bsaul wrote: post #144
CraftThatBlock wrote: post #35

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Flutter uses the Chrome rendering engine (Skia) and scrolling is fully fluid (in release mode). React native uses native views (if implemented correctly) and is usually very fluid too

I tried a flutter app i found from the sample app catalog on the iOS store on an iphone X and the scroll wasn't really good (although the views were very basic). Can you point me at an iOS app made with flutter that implements this correctly on the store ? EDIT : it's the "veggie season" app and i've tried it again on my iphone 6. it's almost unusable. The scroll stops completley sometimes and other times it just scr…

This might be worth checking out: https://flutter.dev/showcase Also this if you want to dig deeper: https://flutter-dashboard.appspot.com/benchmarks.html
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