Exploring Flutter for Cross-Platform Mobile Development
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Re: Exploring Flutter for Cross-Platform Mobile Development
#2Nice article. The lack of native iOS looking components would be a deal breaker for me.
I wonder how stuff like navigation is built? If that's all in dart I'd be interested in seeing how the back stack looks in the hierarchy explorer. I.e are precious screens rendered still.
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#3Nice write-up. I've been popping my head on over to their project every few months to check out their progress. Something that's pretty cool is that they're using Flutter to write Fuchsia's UI [0].
My favorite thing about Flutter is that it looks like they took some heavy inspiration from React. If anyone reading this isn't familiarized with React, or they don't really "get it", I'd highly suggest reading the Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome [1].
One of the big problems with implementing a UI toolkit is having to re-implement everything relating to accessibility. Although it's totally understandable that they're still focusing on the core.
Something I'd be interested in seeing is how Dart and Flutter might affect battery life. I'd expect the stock UIs to be pretty well optimized by now, but I have no idea how Dart stacks up in performance.
[0] https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/sysui
[1] http://jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-...
Re: Exploring Flutter for Cross-Platform Mobile Development
#4Nice article. The lack of native iOS looking components would be a deal breaker for me. I wonder how stuff like navigation is built? If that's all in dart I'd be interested in seeing how the back stack looks in the hierarchy explorer. I.e are precious screens rendered still.
[disclaimer: I work on the Flutter project]
We're adding more Cupertino (iOS-flavor) widgets. A few that we already have: spinner, toggle slider, button, alert. Check out the library (https://docs.flutter.io/flutter/cupertino/cupertino-library....) and let us know which ones you'd like to see next! https://flutter.io/issues
Thanks!
Re: Exploring Flutter for Cross-Platform Mobile Development
#5Nice write-up. I've been popping my head on over to their project every few months to check out their progress. Something that's pretty cool is that they're using Flutter to write Fuchsia's UI [0]. My favorite thing about Flutter is that it looks like they took some heavy inspiration from React. If anyone reading this isn't familiarized with React, or they don't really "get it", I'd highly suggest reading the Removin…
[disclaimer: I work on the Flutter project]
One of the reasons we picked Dart was that is compiles to ARM (native) code. Dart has been pretty efficient for the project so far, but we haven't yet looked very deeply at battery life. Something to keep an eye on!
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#6Codename One (https://www.codenameone.com/) runs circles around fluttr.
Re: Exploring Flutter for Cross-Platform Mobile Development
#7Nice article. The lack of native iOS looking components would be a deal breaker for me. I wonder how stuff like navigation is built? If that's all in dart I'd be interested in seeing how the back stack looks in the hierarchy explorer. I.e are precious screens rendered still.
I agree, but I'd take it one step further actually. For me it doesn't cut it if the widgets just LOOK correct. I want them to BE correct. So, native widgets only please, no mimicking.
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#8How does flutter compare to weex? (Native VueJS)
Re: Exploring Flutter for Cross-Platform Mobile Development
#9Nice article. The lack of native iOS looking components would be a deal breaker for me. I wonder how stuff like navigation is built? If that's all in dart I'd be interested in seeing how the back stack looks in the hierarchy explorer. I.e are precious screens rendered still.
[disclaimer: I work on the Flutter project] We're adding more Cupertino (iOS-flavor) widgets. A few that we already have: spinner, toggle slider, button, alert. Check out the library ( https://docs.flutter.io/flutter/cupertino/cupertino-library.... ) and let us know which ones you'd like to see next! https://flutter.io/issues Thanks!
Will your custom widgets work with all iOS accessibility features?
Accessibility is often forgotten when something gets reimplemented.
Re: Exploring Flutter for Cross-Platform Mobile Development
#10Nice article. The lack of native iOS looking components would be a deal breaker for me. I wonder how stuff like navigation is built? If that's all in dart I'd be interested in seeing how the back stack looks in the hierarchy explorer. I.e are precious screens rendered still.
I agree, but I'd take it one step further actually. For me it doesn't cut it if the widgets just LOOK correct. I want them to BE correct. So, native widgets only please, no mimicking.
Not only that but if you reimplement the widgets then your always playing catch up when they change. It's better to just use the platform's 'primitive views' then constantly reinventing a wheel that looks similar. Someone else also mentioned accessibility which to me is a deal breaker if your app doesn't match a native apps accessibility.