The movement is really choppy on my iPhone 13 Pro. Did you use requestAnimationFrame for the tuning movement? & CSS animations for switching instruments? Kinda just wondering how the performance could be so bad. Reminds me of PhoneGap circa 2013
I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust
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Re: I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust
#62Purchased for Android, love Flutter and been trying to learn guitar off/on, so this could be helpful.
Question re: web (where I have not been impressed with Flutter as a platform) - I just get "Failed to start listening thread." I tried both Firefox and Chrome, latest versions.
Side note: Also noticed I can't highlight/copy the text (common usability/accessibility issue with Flutter Web. I believe it's not that hard to allow?)
Re: I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust
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What is that anger about Rust on internet forums about? I started learning Rust because it's a language with interesting characteristics and welcoming documentation. Only then I've discovered it's apparently "controversial" for some reason...
Members of the rust community were often accused of being overly-enthusiastic in recommending that things be rewritten in rust, so much to the point it more or less became a meme unto itself.
Now, visceral anti-rust gut reactions are more commonplace than inappropriate suggestions to use rust are. Even that is petering out, though.
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Yes, but to be fair it's awfully hard to find a free app that does the same without bloat due to any kind of ads. I'm going to buy this app just because of frustration due to that.
There are several such apps on f-droid.
F-droid often has nice apps, but too often, they are just not good enough for what I want or need[1]. In that case, I'll gladly pay on the play-store because the paid version is nearly always (but certainly not guaranteed to) have less or no trackers ads, and malware included. The free apps far too often do.
I use https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/ to check for trackers, ads and "malware".
[1] Far too often, the apps there are "OK, but...", clearly the work of a someone building a quick "works for me" or someone learning how to build apps. For some tasks, "just OK" is good enough. More often it just isn't.
Re: I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust
#65Purchased for Android, love Flutter and been trying to learn guitar off/on, so this could be helpful. Question re: web (where I have not been impressed with Flutter as a platform) - I just get "Failed to start listening thread." I tried both Firefox and Chrome, latest versions. Side note: Also noticed I can't highlight/copy the text (common usability/accessibility issue with Flutter Web. I believe it's not that hard…
The developer is supposed to use a SelectableText widget: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/SelectableText-clas...
Re: I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust
#66The movement is really choppy on my iPhone 13 Pro. Did you use requestAnimationFrame for the tuning movement? & CSS animations for switching instruments? Kinda just wondering how the performance could be so bad. Reminds me of PhoneGap circa 2013
Flutter is not web-based. It's all custom.
Re: I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust
#67The movement is really choppy on my iPhone 13 Pro. Did you use requestAnimationFrame for the tuning movement? & CSS animations for switching instruments? Kinda just wondering how the performance could be so bad. Reminds me of PhoneGap circa 2013
I can confirm. It is extremely choppy and resource hungry for what it does. Since they use Flutter, the UI is rendered using 119 canvas elements. The same thing could be implemented using the web platform (no flutter and no rust) with better results.
Re: I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust
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While $1 is certainly far less than the value this app provides, it’s going to be a hard sell when there are several free apps which do the same thing.
I will pay anywhere from $1 to $5 to eliminate ads, so this is a good value, considering the free apps almost all have ads, if I recall. Or are provided by one of the larger guitar companies and promote their subscription/learning platforms? I find the idea that $1 is a "hard sell" laughable, but unfortunately for software devs that is the world we find ourselves in when trying to monetize an idea.
Same. If I see a free app and a $1 app that does the same thing, I'll probably go for the $1 app.
Re: I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust
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While $1 is certainly far less than the value this app provides, it’s going to be a hard sell when there are several free apps which do the same thing.
I will pay anywhere from $1 to $5 to eliminate ads, so this is a good value, considering the free apps almost all have ads, if I recall. Or are provided by one of the larger guitar companies and promote their subscription/learning platforms? I find the idea that $1 is a "hard sell" laughable, but unfortunately for software devs that is the world we find ourselves in when trying to monetize an idea.
Well, there are also already at least dozen free ones that allow to buy ad-less versions
> I find the idea that $1 is a "hard sell" laughable, but unfortunately for software devs that is the world we find ourselves in when trying to monetize an idea.
and it's hard sell because you can just pick any of them, test to your liking and pay for one after using it.
Re: I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust
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While $1 is certainly far less than the value this app provides, it’s going to be a hard sell when there are several free apps which do the same thing.
Yes, but to be fair it's awfully hard to find a free app that does the same without bloat due to any kind of ads. I'm going to buy this app just because of frustration due to that.
Sometimes,
But a similar "utility" (shameless promotion here) I've made a free open source metronome. No ads and cross-platform.
So if someone like me had incentive for free metronome. I'm pretty sure there are also tuners out there.
Still, 1$ to support an app is really legitimate and sometimes gives more incentives for the developer to maintain it or add features.