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Why you should NOT use NativeScript

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Re: Why you should NOT use NativeScript

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This post is on point. I spent a good amount of time working on multiple NativeScript apps (NS with Angular and NS with Vue) and can attest that the documentation is not good enough and that there are serious bugs that are pointed out and never fixed or addressed. I will say that open-source is a good thing to do and that they are not solving an easy problem - developing native mobile apps with multiple JS frameworks…

> marketing their software as production ready, easy-to-use, and working out of the box while it being the exact opposite

I stuck my nose into NativeScript years ago and turned right around because of the disconcertingly large gap between the slick experience promised by the project web site and the rough edges reported by people trying to use it.

Presenting your project as a polished solution when it still has a ton of rough edges is not a social norm, an emotional necessity, a human right, a signal of scrappy ambition, or "just what people do." It's a deception that can cause harm. Normally people are not within their rights to demand solutions from open-source projects, but it's fair to ask them to live up to their marketing. They could fix this by rewriting their marketing to better reflect the state of the project, so they attract the right users for the current level of maturity.

Re: Why you should NOT use NativeScript

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biggest advantage of flutter is the amount of time/energy spent in marketing flutter itself. dart is given up by google engineers long time ago. There were time where small amount of ads front end written in angular dart (like 10 pages across 4 applications) and those pages replaced with angular/typescript. Probably you should go with java/kotlin instead of flutter/dart.

This is simply false. Dart/Flutter is very actively being used at Google by dozens of teams.

I think that person meant the language itself.

Re: Why you should NOT use NativeScript

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biggest advantage of flutter is the amount of time/energy spent in marketing flutter itself. dart is given up by google engineers long time ago. There were time where small amount of ads front end written in angular dart (like 10 pages across 4 applications) and those pages replaced with angular/typescript. Probably you should go with java/kotlin instead of flutter/dart.

If Microsoft's interest in Flutter becomes more substantial, it might diminish the perception it's one of those projects Google could abandon on a whim.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/surface-duo/flutter-dual-scre...

Shipping phones with Fuchsia (which as I understand will support Flutter apps) would also help.

Re: Why you should NOT use NativeScript

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2021: Why you should NOT use NativeScript It’s been two years since our company decided we’ll pick NativeScript to create and maintain our Android App. This was the biggest mistake our rapidly growing company made in the last 4 years. We are about to rebuild our Android app in Flutter from scratch now… 2023: Why you should NOT use Flutter It’s been two years since our company decided we’ll pick Flutter to create and…

Now do 2025 :D

Re: Why you should NOT use NativeScript

#25
If you want to use javascript/typescript angular for hybrid development use ionicframework. It has it's warts too like all things, but it's much more mature than NativeScript.

Living with the warts is sometimes worth it, if you need to get to mark in a few months and have no mobile dev experience, it's worth using one of these frameworks.

Then start learning the native landscape and building out what needs to be done. After a few years for most app it would feel like as if it would have been easier to go native all along, but the reality is that if you did, you would be much behind.

Re: Why you should NOT use NativeScript

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2021: Why you should NOT use NativeScript It’s been two years since our company decided we’ll pick NativeScript to create and maintain our Android App. This was the biggest mistake our rapidly growing company made in the last 4 years. We are about to rebuild our Android app in Flutter from scratch now… 2023: Why you should NOT use Flutter It’s been two years since our company decided we’ll pick Flutter to create and…

Don't know much about nativescript, but picked up flutter 3 weeks back and am almost finished writing my first flutter app just coding during my free time. Feels great coding in it and seems well thought out. Just my 2 cents

Re: Why you should NOT use NativeScript

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If you want to use javascript/typescript angular for hybrid development use ionicframework. It has it's warts too like all things, but it's much more mature than NativeScript. Living with the warts is sometimes worth it, if you need to get to mark in a few months and have no mobile dev experience, it's worth using one of these frameworks. Then start learning the native landscape and building out what needs to be done…

> get to mark

Freudian slip? /s

Re: Why you should NOT use NativeScript

#28

biggest advantage of flutter is the amount of time/energy spent in marketing flutter itself. dart is given up by google engineers long time ago. There were time where small amount of ads front end written in angular dart (like 10 pages across 4 applications) and those pages replaced with angular/typescript. Probably you should go with java/kotlin instead of flutter/dart.

I have my hesitations and critiques about Dart and Flutter, but this is flat out wrong.

Dart has evolved significantly over the last few years, and Google is very serious about Flutter.

Re: Why you should NOT use NativeScript

#29

2021: Why you should NOT use NativeScript It’s been two years since our company decided we’ll pick NativeScript to create and maintain our Android App. This was the biggest mistake our rapidly growing company made in the last 4 years. We are about to rebuild our Android app in Flutter from scratch now… 2023: Why you should NOT use Flutter It’s been two years since our company decided we’ll pick Flutter to create and…

I don't know enough about NativeScript to comment but Flutter is a great platform, I'd pick it up over native any day.

Re: Why you should NOT use NativeScript

#30

2021: Why you should NOT use NativeScript It’s been two years since our company decided we’ll pick NativeScript to create and maintain our Android App. This was the biggest mistake our rapidly growing company made in the last 4 years. We are about to rebuild our Android app in Flutter from scratch now… 2023: Why you should NOT use Flutter It’s been two years since our company decided we’ll pick Flutter to create and…

Now do 2025 :D

“We didn’t touch the app for a year and after we upgraded to Gradle 13, everything went to hell”?
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