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Re: FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps

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Post by sebe »

mleonhard wrote: post #99
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #75

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I'm waiting for Flutter to stop draining the battery. On my Mac, a single TextField with a blinking cursor inside uses somewhere between 10% and 20% CPU. This is a complete show stopper for me.

Flutter in iOS Simulator will drain my laptop's battery in an hour. It's quite frustrating. Pre-pandemic, I often worked in cafes and libraries and purchased a long power cable to use when I need to work with Flutter and can't get a seat next to an outlet. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/21445 https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/31865#issuecomment... https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/33833#iss…

Seems with Flutter being open, the growth of flutter outside of mobile was started by others, with it's being picked up by other teams within google and outside of google.

In this podcast, Eric one of the original flutter guys,said desktop and web started by other team with in google. https://twitter.com/darkofabijan/status/1392061926407028740

Teams from Sony, Toyota and Samsung(Tizen) are giving flutter a go on their own. Also the ubuntu guys are active committers to progress flutter desktop.

Re: FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps

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Post by gozzoo »

novok wrote: post #94
gozzoo wrote: post #85

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> Flutter for Android, Windows, Linux and possibly a web client. Wouldn't Jetpack Compose make more sense for these platforms? It is native for Android and is similar to flutter for web and desktop.

You can't make desktop apps with android or jetpack compose. Find me one written with it that actually distributes their app that way vs. some emulation hack that nobody uses.

Actually you can. They have Compose for Desktop. I don't know how stable and mature it is tough.

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose/

Re: FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps

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Post by offtop5 »

babaganoosh89 wrote: post #62
offtop5 wrote: post #12

I was very interested up until I saw the pricing. $70 a month is way too much. A big issue here is just how easy flutter is, I'd rather invest 20 hours once to build it using Dart, then to pay $800 a year.

$70/month is definitely too cheap if it delivers what it promises. Unity3D is similar in concept but for games and charges $0/yr/seat, $400/yr/seat or $1800/yr/seat depending on how much your company makes.

TBH I'm very skeptical this is usable for a business. Auto generating good code is very very hard

Re: FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps

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Post by shadowfu »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #98
klunger wrote: post #93

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There must be something else going on that you are not aware of hogging the CPU. This cannot possibly be the source of that.

I'm simply observing the CPU usage of the Flutter app when a TextField gets the focus. I don't see why it matters whatever else may be hogging the CPU as well. I tried it on macOS as well as on the iOS simulator and on the web, but I haven't tried the latest version yet. You can try the web version here: https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/demo/cupertino-text-field Edit: I have now tried the latest version (2.2) and I'm se…

Just out of curiosity; do you see these while running in profile / release mode?

Re: FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps

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Post by primitivesuave »

fakedang wrote: post #84
swyx wrote: post #52

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its not a binary.. first of all there are tons of people who have software needs who just dont have that option. Whats the solution, hire you? you're expensive, and you have your own backlog to deal with. *they are bottlenecked by you*. second of all flutterflow (and other code-exporting builders like webflow) generates code you can take over, so it can even be helpful to people who could code it themselves, all it h…

This. I tried out Flutter Flow a few days back. I was able to do a ton of boring design work very productively, as well as the Firebase integration gamut, but I can't see myself coding app logic with the existing setup.

Awesome, thank you for this insight! Does it generate quality code?

Re: FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps

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Post by fakedang »

primitivesuave wrote: post #105
fakedang wrote: post #84

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This. I tried out Flutter Flow a few days back. I was able to do a ton of boring design work very productively, as well as the Firebase integration gamut, but I can't see myself coding app logic with the existing setup.

Awesome, thank you for this insight! Does it generate quality code?

For layouts and basic UI, definitely. But backend integration was a bit convoluted and I think difficult to decipher by design. Like if you expect to just do the stuff on the web app, then download code and make changes, nope not going to happen. You'll have to spend some time with each of the files you downloaded.

Re: FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps

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Post by Gys »

asgreaves wrote: post #26

FlutterFlow cofounder here! We thought the HN crowd would want to see the generated code for FlutterMet, so here it is: https://github.com/FlutterFlow/FlutterMetSample/tree/flutter... We try to generate clean Flutter code that follows best practices – we have a long way to go, but we couldn't be more excited. Edit: Also, here's the video of us building it (in just under an hour): https://youtu.be/TXsjnd_4SBo

Are push notifications on iOS supported?

Re: FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps

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Post by readonthegoapp »

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #2

I am still looking for the equivalent of Visual Basic for making modern Web and mobile apps. It is exciting that we might finally be getting there!

The closest-ish i've come is messing with Anvil.

not affiliated, but i do go back every 3 months to find out again that the $50/mo buy-in is too high for my liking.

https://anvil.works/

Re: FlutterFlow: Low-code Flutter apps

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Post by readonthegoapp »

asgreaves wrote: post #26

FlutterFlow cofounder here! We thought the HN crowd would want to see the generated code for FlutterMet, so here it is: https://github.com/FlutterFlow/FlutterMetSample/tree/flutter... We try to generate clean Flutter code that follows best practices – we have a long way to go, but we couldn't be more excited. Edit: Also, here's the video of us building it (in just under an hour): https://youtu.be/TXsjnd_4SBo

congrats.

would love to see a 5-min version of this video, narrated and/or annotated, with zero formatting, or bootstrap-like default formatting.

one thing that always trips me out with UI builders is seeing how, to produce some 'simple' list, you have to stack a grid, on top of a card, on top of a row, on top of a column, on top of a cell, on top of a row, inside of a column, etc.

just seems like i should be able to drag one simple list-like component into the view, wire up the api/db query, done.

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