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I created apps in cordova, react native and now flutter and I have to say flutter beats both by a lot. It's just been such a nice experience. I'm absolutely in

I created apps in cordova, react native and now flutter and I have to say flutter beats both by a lot. It's just been such a nice experience. I'm absolutely in love. My most successful app in flutter is https://stockevents.app https://stockevents.app if you want to try.

stephenhuey 6y ago
I'm a long-time fan of pure web apps, but in my experience, it's more streamlined to develop and ship mobile apps with Flutter than with Cordova and some of the other tools that package web apps for mobile.
- davidkuennen 6y ago
  Yeah I certainly wouldn't use cordova today, but it was very innovative when it was released and I love what it did for the hybrid space.
  - stephenhuey 6y ago
    Exactly, and for all the skeptical folks on here, I do not feel Flutter will the the ultimate solution, just another step forward like Cordoba was for abstracting some things and making development faster and easier and paying the bills by shipping more stuff sooner.
pvinis 6y ago
I just tried your app, and like the droppod.gg app and every other flutter app I've tried, there are obvious broken UI things. In the watchlist tab, with one item in the list, I am able to scroll and make the one item hide behind the navbar, and it's happy to stay like that. These things are big obvious things that make me uninstall an app even if I want/need to use it. Again, I don't know if it's you or flutter that made this thing behave like that. But it makes me think flutter apps are all just one big mess.
- davidkuennen 6y ago
  Haha.. Thanks for your feedback and I totally understand. In this case tho it's my own fault and not flutters. I wanted that fancy AppBar and created that mess myself. I was actually planning on fixing all the broken AppBars in my next release.
  - pvinis 6y ago
    that's cool to hear! I wish you luck
charrondev 6y ago
The app looks nice but scrolling feels incredibly weird on my iPhone XS Max. Did you write some custom scrolling logic or is that just how scroll views are in flutter? There’s a bit of chop in the scrolling and it feels completely linear, instead of elastic like native iOS apps feel (and websites).
- davidkuennen 6y ago
  Oh thanks a lot for letting me know. I will investigate this, since I really don't know.
grouma 6y ago
[Googler who works with the Flutter team] I'm a big fan of your app! It has become the main way I consume and watch stock data. There are some minor issues however. The "Watchlist" header has an issue where it renders under the back button both on Android and iOS. Also the Watchlist view can have some jank while scrolling unlike other sections of the app. Finally it'd be great if the app responded to the system level dark mode setting instead of having it's own toggle. Overall though, great stuff so keep up the good work :D
- davidkuennen 6y ago
  Wow, thanks a lot! That's such a nice compliment. And thanks for your suggestions as well. Currently working on migrating to Flutter 2 and will look into it after that. :)

stephenhuey 6y ago

I'm a long-time fan of pure web apps, but in my experience, it's more streamlined to develop and ship mobile apps with Flutter than with Cordova and some of the other tools that package web apps for mobile.

davidkuennen 6y ago
Yeah I certainly wouldn't use cordova today, but it was very innovative when it was released and I love what it did for the hybrid space.
- stephenhuey 6y ago
  Exactly, and for all the skeptical folks on here, I do not feel Flutter will the the ultimate solution, just another step forward like Cordoba was for abstracting some things and making development faster and easier and paying the bills by shipping more stuff sooner.

pvinis 6y ago

I just tried your app, and like the droppod.gg app and every other flutter app I've tried, there are obvious broken UI things. In the watchlist tab, with one item in the list, I am able to scroll and make the one item hide behind the navbar, and it's happy to stay like that. These things are big obvious things that make me uninstall an app even if I want/need to use it. Again, I don't know if it's you or flutter that made this thing behave like that. But it makes me think flutter apps are all just one big mess.

davidkuennen 6y ago
Haha.. Thanks for your feedback and I totally understand. In this case tho it's my own fault and not flutters. I wanted that fancy AppBar and created that mess myself. I was actually planning on fixing all the broken AppBars in my next release.
- pvinis 6y ago
  that's cool to hear! I wish you luck

charrondev 6y ago

The app looks nice but scrolling feels incredibly weird on my iPhone XS Max. Did you write some custom scrolling logic or is that just how scroll views are in flutter? There’s a bit of chop in the scrolling and it feels completely linear, instead of elastic like native iOS apps feel (and websites).

davidkuennen 6y ago
Oh thanks a lot for letting me know. I will investigate this, since I really don't know.

grouma 6y ago

[Googler who works with the Flutter team] I'm a big fan of your app! It has become the main way I consume and watch stock data. There are some minor issues however. The "Watchlist" header has an issue where it renders under the back button both on Android and iOS. Also the Watchlist view can have some jank while scrolling unlike other sections of the app. Finally it'd be great if the app responded to the system level dark mode setting instead of having it's own toggle. Overall though, great stuff so keep up the good work :D

davidkuennen 6y ago
Wow, thanks a lot! That's such a nice compliment. And thanks for your suggestions as well. Currently working on migrating to Flutter 2 and will look into it after that. :)