Show HN: InKino – An open-source movie app made with Flutter • Hacker News Board

dang wrote: post #3

unop wrote: post #2

Hmm, the HN title is grossly misleading.. I wonder why?

What is misleading, and what would be a better title?

It is an app exclusively for "Finnkino" cinemas. Most people would interpret "movie app"to be something broader than that.

Re: Show HN: InKino – An open-source movie app made with Flutter

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Post by savolai » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 6:58 AM UTC

I thought from title it would actually show films.

By far the prettiest app for Helsinki kino/cinema though.

Re: Show HN: InKino – An open-source movie app made with Flutter

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Post by danmaz74 » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 6:59 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #3

unop wrote: post #2

Hmm, the HN title is grossly misleading.. I wonder why?

What is misleading, and what would be a better title?

From the project Github page:

"inKino - A cross platform movie and showtime browser for Finnkino cinemas, made with Flutter."

"inKino - a showtime browser for Finnkino cinemas"

Re: Show HN: InKino – An open-source movie app made with Flutter

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Post by roughike » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 7:13 AM UTC

unop wrote: post #2

Hmm, the HN title is grossly misleading.. I wonder why?

There's only so much I could fit in the title, and I honestly didn't mean to mislead anyone. I can definitely see how it could be a little misleading now that you mentioned it.

Sorry about that!

Re: Show HN: InKino – An open-source movie app made with Flutter

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Post by shelune » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 7:15 AM UTC

I was just wondering today why Finnkino hasn't released their own app since their web experience is horrible. Nice!

Re: Show HN: InKino – An open-source movie app made with Flutter

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Post by rvanmil » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 7:19 AM UTC

This looks really nice considering it's built with a cross platform framework. Did you also consider using React Native, and if so what made you decide to use Flutter instead? My team is looking to move away from Cordova for our cross platform mobile projects to either one of these so I'd be interested to hear about this. And thanks for open sourcing!

Re: Show HN: InKino – An open-source movie app made with Flutter

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Post by roughike » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 7:39 AM UTC

rvanmil wrote: post #9

This looks really nice considering it's built with a cross platform framework. Did you also consider using React Native, and if so what made you decide to use Flutter instead? My team is looking to move away from Cordova for our cross platform mobile projects to either one of these so I'd be interested to hear about this. And thanks for open sourcing!

I've been using Flutter for a year now, and I've loved it since the first time I gave it a try.

In my work, I've been using other cross-platform technologies, such as Xamarin and React Native briefly (actually currently doing a customer project with RN). In my experience, RN is not that bad and mostly gets the job done, but I've grown to like Flutter more. The tooling and documentation are top-notch ("it just works"), and since it custom renders everything, the UIs are consistent across devices and platforms. For example, with React Native I had to recently fight with a third-party library to have gradients (RN doesn't support them), but couldn't get the library working.

Another thing that I heard from colleagues was that React Native can introduce a lot of breaking changes between versions. I have a one-year-old hobby Flutter project and I was still able to run that without any pain when the first beta came out.

Being a native Android & Java guy for the last 5 years or so, having the strong type system of Dart also felt more natural to me than Javascript.