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Flutter tutorial for beginners

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Re: Flutter tutorial for beginners

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Post by blandflakes »

Kaladin wrote: post #4

As someone starting out, would it be beneficial to learn flutter or go the kotlin way?

What are you starting out on? Kotlin has more web presence, but is pretty much Android-only on the mobile app side. Flutter is theoretically crossplatform with relatively low serverside mindshare.

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Post by milap »

Kaladin wrote: post #4

As someone starting out, would it be beneficial to learn flutter or go the kotlin way?

I think kotlin is mostly used for android development and is a programming language. Flutter is mostly with cross platform development. It uses dart as programing language which is very easy and fast to learn.

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Post by Austin_Conlon »

From a design standpoint I don't see effort from Flutter to look and feel native to iOS. Hamburger menus and details like the sharing icon might be great on Android, but it's unclear if they're familiar to iOS users. Personally I tried Flutter's demo app associated with their announcement, and basics like scrolling stuttered on the latest iPhone hardware.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017-802/?time=1...

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Post by garyclarke27 »

Austin_Conlon wrote: post #7

From a design standpoint I don't see effort from Flutter to look and feel native to iOS. Hamburger menus and details like the sharing icon might be great on Android, but it's unclear if they're familiar to iOS users. Personally I tried Flutter's demo app associated with their announcement, and basics like scrolling stuttered on the latest iPhone hardware. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017-802/?time=1..…

I think developers worry far too much about platform native look and feel. Users don’t care, nice design, ease of use, ease of learning with intuitive obvious paths to functionality that solves their needs, is all they care about. Even developers as users don’t care, as proven by the success of VSCode.
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