For those looking for a summary: this is a SwiftUI clone for Android. SwiftUI itself is heavily inspired by React and older Functional-Reactive-Programming frameworks.
Jetpack Compose Alpha is released
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Re: Jetpack Compose Alpha is released
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm also curious about what will happen with Flutter in the long term. I mean, Flutter is an SDK, and the other is an UI toolkit, but I don't see how Flutter UI will remain relevant, specially since Jetpack might take over.
Flutter will stay relevant exactly as long as Google believes it is relevant. I'd say the jury is still out on it but IMHO things are looking increasingly like they don't have a winner on their hands in terms of developer adoption. I've yet to encounter a single Flutter app in the wild. I'm not aware of anything mainstream using it. You can tell a lot by what Google is talking about and what they are not talking abou…
According to [1], there are more than 90,000 Flutter apps on the play store, growing at over 10,000 per month. Now to be fair many of these are low quality throw away apps, but there some significant apps including Hamilton, and Google Stadia.
In addition, flutter runs in a whole bunch of places, including native desktop apps and of course Fuschia.
I am coming to the opposite conclusion. Flutter is a massive hit - and I think Google is smart enough to know they have a a winner on their hands. Flutter isn't going anywhere.
[1] https://medium.com/flutter/announcing-flutter-1-20-2aaf68c89...
Re: Jetpack Compose Alpha is released
#23As an Android dev, I'm confident this will become as popular as Kotlin did vs Java once it becomes stable.
The preview looks great, it feels like it will make a breeze out of building composable small views, which in turn will mean many small libraries will be released, and on goes the virtuous cycle.
As a fan of React and SwiftUI, I'm excited!
Re: Jetpack Compose Alpha is released
#24Name collision? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Jetpack
Re: Jetpack Compose Alpha is released
#25How similar Jetpack Compose is to SwiftUI?
extremely similar to Flutter, SwiftUI is a sort of more wonky FP-y approach and they have a lot of work to do to flesh out the API still, we'll know more then
Re: Jetpack Compose Alpha is released
#26Re: Jetpack Compose Alpha is released
#27For those looking for a summary: this is a SwiftUI clone for Android. SwiftUI itself is heavily inspired by React and older Functional-Reactive-Programming frameworks.
To be fair, Google has had Flutter since well before SwiftUI was released.
Re: Jetpack Compose Alpha is released
#28I was just upgrading my side project from dev14 - dev17 I had no idea the alpha would be out so soon.
Re: Jetpack Compose Alpha is released
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm also curious about what will happen with Flutter in the long term. I mean, Flutter is an SDK, and the other is an UI toolkit, but I don't see how Flutter UI will remain relevant, specially since Jetpack might take over.
But Flutter works on iOS, Android and now on web.
This is true but I do see it’s adoption far more among Android devs.
Re: Jetpack Compose Alpha is released
#30For those looking for a summary: this is a SwiftUI clone for Android. SwiftUI itself is heavily inspired by React and older Functional-Reactive-Programming frameworks.
Jetpack Compose was announced before SwiftUI :)