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I became quite interested in Flutter recently but it was pretty much impossible to find a range of good demo applications (or any demo applications) that show o

I became quite interested in Flutter recently but it was pretty much impossible to find a range of good demo applications (or any demo applications) that show off what it is capable of so I gave up. LOTS of technical documentation however but nothing to sell me on using it.

kyrra 9y ago
The beta announce blogpost for flutter links to 3 apps published that used it[0]. Also, it seems according to that blog post and the Ars[1] post on it, Adwords may be using Flutter? But that doesn't seem clear to me. [0] https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/02/announcing-flutter-beta-1.html https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/02/announcing-flutter... [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/google-starts-a-push-for-cross-platform-app-development-with-flutter-sdk/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/google-starts-a-push...
movedx 9y ago
I'm currently working on an open-source "wish list" application that will be Serverless with a Flutter based mobile application. I'm vLogging about it at my channel (youtube.com/opsfactory) and will be providing a premium training course going into much, MUCH more details than the YT videos. The course is due in a few months.
timsneath 9y ago
Yeah, we've got some work to do to fill out our set of examples. (Disclaimer: I work on the Flutter team.) - There's a catalog of simple but official examples in the Flutter repo, under the examples directory: https://github.com/flutter/flutter https://github.com/flutter/flutter - One Flutter user has contributed a pretty impressive list of examples and learning resources here: https://github.com/Solido/awesome-flutter https://github.com/Solido/awesome-flutter - One of my personal favorite examples is this restaurant app prototype, which is inspired by an Uplabs design: https://github.com/braulio94/menu_flutter https://github.com/braulio94/menu_flutter
- porker 9y ago
  > (Disclaimer: I work on the Flutter team.) Please, that's a disclosure, not a disclaimer. Keep up the great work, I'm really excited by Flutter!
- hoodoof 9y ago
  If you say you have a beautiful, powerful, fast, full featured application development system then you need to be able to SHOW me, and its gotta knock me out in every possible way. Nothing here at all for Flutter, just words.
  - sever 9y ago
    I think Newsvoice (https://newsvoice.com/app https://newsvoice.com/app) is written in flutter.
  - suprfnk 9y ago
    Well, Flutter has been at beta 1 for just over a week now. https://medium.com/flutter-io/announcing-flutter-beta-1-build-beautiful-native-apps-dc142aea74c0 https://medium.com/flutter-io/announcing-flutter-beta-1-buil... I can imagine they haven't had the time to flesh out docs yet.
  - VeryVito 9y ago
    Honestly, the best way to see the advantages of the toolset is to complete the "Get started" section of flutter.io. I develop iOS, Android, Web and Mac apps, and I was honestly blown away by the quality of the intelliJ and VSCode plugins available for Flutter. In fact, they've kinda ruined me for other language SDKs now. Granted, the lack of material, demos and discussions makes it difficult to tackle some problems, but that seems to be changing these days. It's hard NOT to enjoy coding in Flutter, though, and I think that end up being its biggest strength.
- lambda 9y ago
  Is having the UI layout and styling mixed in with the code considered a feature of Flutter, or is providing a way to specify them separately in a machine-readable or declaritive format just not done yet? I'm a fuddy-duddy still doing UI in GTK and Qt, I haven't kept up in trends in web and mobile design, but I know that when our developers do the layout and design it comes out awful and unusable, but luckily with GTK and Qt we can just hand it off to our designer after the basic functionality is in place and he can do some layout tweaking with Glade or Qt Designer, and is comfortable with working with CSS to provide us with custom widget styling and images, and then he sends it back to us and we clean up the results and merge it. All of the Flutter examples seem to have the UI written entirely in code, both layout and styling, and I don't think he'd be comfortable with that. You may note that we send it to him, he tweaks it, and sends it back to us to merge; we've never been able to teach him Git, but that's OK, because we don't expect him to teach us Photoshop and design. So, I'm just wondering if Flutter is intended to always be like this, with the whole UI specified in executable code that needs to be compiled and run for each iteration, or if it is intended to add a way to separate out the design parts (layout and styling) in a way that they can be worked on at least somewhat independently of the code? I know that there is IDE support for hot reload, which may be OK for a designer to work with, but I'm always a little skeptical of that since most developers I know use VIM or Emacs and not IDEs, so sometimes IDE tooling setup can break, and once a project gets complicated, the toolchain setup for running from within an IDE can get hard to install. The nice thing about Glade or Qt Designer is that they can work with purely declarative formats so that you don't need to worry about having to have your designer get the full toolchain installed.

kyrra 9y ago

The beta announce blogpost for flutter links to 3 apps published that used it[0]. Also, it seems according to that blog post and the Ars[1] post on it, Adwords may be using Flutter? But that doesn't seem clear to me. [0] https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/02/announcing-flutter-beta-1.html https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/02/announcing-flutter... [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/google-starts-a-push-for-cross-platform-app-development-with-flutter-sdk/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/google-starts-a-push...

movedx 9y ago

I'm currently working on an open-source "wish list" application that will be Serverless with a Flutter based mobile application. I'm vLogging about it at my channel (youtube.com/opsfactory) and will be providing a premium training course going into much, MUCH more details than the YT videos. The course is due in a few months.

timsneath 9y ago

Yeah, we've got some work to do to fill out our set of examples. (Disclaimer: I work on the Flutter team.) - There's a catalog of simple but official examples in the Flutter repo, under the examples directory: https://github.com/flutter/flutter https://github.com/flutter/flutter - One Flutter user has contributed a pretty impressive list of examples and learning resources here: https://github.com/Solido/awesome-flutter https://github.com/Solido/awesome-flutter - One of my personal favorite examples is this restaurant app prototype, which is inspired by an Uplabs design: https://github.com/braulio94/menu_flutter https://github.com/braulio94/menu_flutter

porker 9y ago
> (Disclaimer: I work on the Flutter team.) Please, that's a disclosure, not a disclaimer. Keep up the great work, I'm really excited by Flutter!
hoodoof 9y ago
If you say you have a beautiful, powerful, fast, full featured application development system then you need to be able to SHOW me, and its gotta knock me out in every possible way. Nothing here at all for Flutter, just words.
- sever 9y ago
  I think Newsvoice (https://newsvoice.com/app https://newsvoice.com/app) is written in flutter.
- suprfnk 9y ago
  Well, Flutter has been at beta 1 for just over a week now. https://medium.com/flutter-io/announcing-flutter-beta-1-build-beautiful-native-apps-dc142aea74c0 https://medium.com/flutter-io/announcing-flutter-beta-1-buil... I can imagine they haven't had the time to flesh out docs yet.
- VeryVito 9y ago
  Honestly, the best way to see the advantages of the toolset is to complete the "Get started" section of flutter.io. I develop iOS, Android, Web and Mac apps, and I was honestly blown away by the quality of the intelliJ and VSCode plugins available for Flutter. In fact, they've kinda ruined me for other language SDKs now. Granted, the lack of material, demos and discussions makes it difficult to tackle some problems, but that seems to be changing these days. It's hard NOT to enjoy coding in Flutter, though, and I think that end up being its biggest strength.
lambda 9y ago
Is having the UI layout and styling mixed in with the code considered a feature of Flutter, or is providing a way to specify them separately in a machine-readable or declaritive format just not done yet? I'm a fuddy-duddy still doing UI in GTK and Qt, I haven't kept up in trends in web and mobile design, but I know that when our developers do the layout and design it comes out awful and unusable, but luckily with GTK and Qt we can just hand it off to our designer after the basic functionality is in place and he can do some layout tweaking with Glade or Qt Designer, and is comfortable with working with CSS to provide us with custom widget styling and images, and then he sends it back to us and we clean up the results and merge it. All of the Flutter examples seem to have the UI written entirely in code, both layout and styling, and I don't think he'd be comfortable with that. You may note that we send it to him, he tweaks it, and sends it back to us to merge; we've never been able to teach him Git, but that's OK, because we don't expect him to teach us Photoshop and design. So, I'm just wondering if Flutter is intended to always be like this, with the whole UI specified in executable code that needs to be compiled and run for each iteration, or if it is intended to add a way to separate out the design parts (layout and styling) in a way that they can be worked on at least somewhat independently of the code? I know that there is IDE support for hot reload, which may be OK for a designer to work with, but I'm always a little skeptical of that since most developers I know use VIM or Emacs and not IDEs, so sometimes IDE tooling setup can break, and once a project gets complicated, the toolchain setup for running from within an IDE can get hard to install. The nice thing about Glade or Qt Designer is that they can work with purely declarative formats so that you don't need to worry about having to have your designer get the full toolchain installed.