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The UI and UX are serendipitous and feels almost joyous just to click and scroll. Well done. I see this app was done in Flutter. What was the motivation to cho

• andrewthebold 7y ago
  Thank you for the praise for the design :) My path to using flutter was that I wanted to use SwiftUI because of its native-ness, but found it was too buggy. I know react native well, but I realized that a lot of the interactions I wanted (e.g., animations) would be much more difficult. Flutter was a compromise that's overall been great to work with. I do feel very at-the-whim of the flutter team's progress (mainly native behavior I can't hide behind custom UI like text editing), but that's not unique to flutter. If you don't mind a link to reddit, I also wrote a comment about the decision [0]. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/g3qrkj/gentle_is_a_social_app_where_you_give_and_get/fnu7o83/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/g3qrkj/gentle_is_a_s...