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Flutter is a mature option for mobile development, esp. for small teams developing for multiple platforms.
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Pretty sure it excludes Linux as a GUI target.
It has a Skia target (in Microsoft.Maui.Graphics) which is theoretically very similar to how Flutter does UI.
People are talking about a better developer experience, but hardly anyone is talking about the user experience with apps built with this tech. I don't feel it's great, especially on older devices. Take google pay, a showcase flutter app. It's a laggy mess on an iPhone SE 2016, whereas the "old" google pay ran perfectly fine. On top of that, many google apps I use these days will just freeze and stop accepting touch i…
Google doesn't even support its own devices from 2016, so I doubt they'd optimize their apps for the iPhone SE 2016.
The best experience for users would be a library that handles business logic, as well as describes how the UI should be laid out, then building native clients that use that library.
People are talking about a better developer experience, but hardly anyone is talking about the user experience with apps built with this tech. I don't feel it's great, especially on older devices. Take google pay, a showcase flutter app. It's a laggy mess on an iPhone SE 2016, whereas the "old" google pay ran perfectly fine. On top of that, many google apps I use these days will just freeze and stop accepting touch i…
Is this really Flutter's fault or is it Google's? Google doesn't even support its own devices from 2016, so I doubt they'd optimize their apps for the iPhone SE 2016.
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Google Home is the first thing that comes to mind. See here: https://flutter.dev/showcase
Google home is my most-hated mobile app. It’s slow, janky, buggy, and has terrible UX.
Despite many maturity issues in practice Flutter is the only realistic option for true cross platform UIs that run everywhere. Apart from Qt , but the licensing issue is a hindrance. And yes, the web backend isn't ideal, but it will improve over time. I just wish Google had built Flutter on a low level core that isn't tied to Dart, so it would be usable from other languages. Dart isn't horrible and is getting better,…
Depending on your needs, Livecode has you covered. https://livecode.com
Runs on Mac, Windows, Linux. Delivers on all three, plus iOS and Android. The underlying language is patterned after HyperTalk and people either love it or hate it, but I haven't seen any other tool where you can open the new installation and within 2 minutes deliver single-file executables for three platforms. (Disclosure: I build a developer tool for Livecode)
People are talking about a better developer experience, but hardly anyone is talking about the user experience with apps built with this tech. I don't feel it's great, especially on older devices. Take google pay, a showcase flutter app. It's a laggy mess on an iPhone SE 2016, whereas the "old" google pay ran perfectly fine. On top of that, many google apps I use these days will just freeze and stop accepting touch i…
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> Facebook uses React on the web and abandoned react native on mobile. That's not true, FB very much still uses RN on mobile.
The Facebook app is not written in React Native. They tried it and famously abandoned it no?