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Comparing with Flutter, I must appreciate things that SwiftUI does not have: - open source code - if something is not clear I can always CTRL + click a widget
by krzat 7y ago
Comparing with Flutter, I must appreciate things that SwiftUI does not have:
- open source code - if something is not clear I can always CTRL + click a widget and see how it's implemented
- there is official formatter for Dart which formats widgets on save (IMO essential things for layout in code)
- documentation is good enough
- it works on any iOS version
- it works on two popular IDEs which support plugins
- latchkey 7y ago100% Agreed. When I was evaluating what platform to develop on, I found Flutter and it checked off all the right boxes on paper. So I started to write an app in it and soon discovered the checks are absolutely real. I can't imagine that it works for 100% of the use cases, but if you're developing a relatively simple mobile app... Flutter is the way to go. Dart is lovely to work in and the API is strangely similar to SwiftUI. ;-) I also filed a bug about tests in Dart not being able to be code folded properly in IDEA and it was fixed within about a month. The developers of that plugin really take it seriously. Totally awesome.
- bsaul 7y agoI personnaly stopped exploring flutter after seeing how it lagged on scrolling even on an iphoneX (flutter demo app on the app store), and how this app also had bug when opening the keyboard, with a blank placeholder wasn’t in sync with they keyboard animation and could be seen while the animation took place. I had great hopes for flutter, but this kind of cooled me down instantly.
- krzat 7y agoI did not intent to praise Flutter, it's just amusing that Google's side project is in many ways more polished than Apple's main source of income. Regarding bugs you have mentioned... I've seen worse stuff, but that's how it is with new technologies.