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Highly recommend the appbrewery flutter bootcamp (it’s a video course). It’s $10 and will get you up and running quickly. I have no affiliation with them other

Highly recommend the appbrewery flutter bootcamp (it’s a video course). It’s $10 and will get you up and running quickly. I have no affiliation with them other than as a happy customer.

jmnicolas 5y ago
I took it last year, the woman has a mesmerizing voice! (and the course is great too :D) If you're an experienced software dev it's a bit basic. I like Flutter a lot, but I'm not a fan of Dart. It's a false friend, it makes you believe it's simple and mostly a copy of your favorite language, but once you start to dig a little deeper it feels like something bolted on, hacky, not designed. I come from the .net world which is the exact opposite: C# is a superb language but every UI framework MS has ever produced is sub par. Now if I could get Flutter with C# I would be a happy man.
- vanillax 5y ago
  Just learn native flutter and dart. If you cant learn a new lang, you shouldn't be developing.
- voidmain0001 5y ago
  Flutnet[1] - either a dream come true, or a nightmare. [1] https://www.flutnet.com/ https://www.flutnet.com/
  - cutler 5y ago
    I don't really get this. Both Flutter and Xamarin are hybrid frameworks. Mixing them up just seems ..... pointless. What's there to be gained?
  - jmnicolas 5y ago
    Wow I never encountered Flutnet before. It's more of a nightmare IMHO, my goal moving to flutter was to avoid Xamarin in the first place!
- cweagans 5y ago
  Huh. I really enjoy Dart and found a lot of it very elegant. What about it did you not like?
  - abelsm 5y ago
    yes, we've been writing a lot of Dart over the last couple of years and also enjoy it quite a lot. interested in hearing what issues GP faced.
  - jmnicolas 5y ago
    Of course it's highly subjective but here are a few examples: There's too much syntactic sugar for my taste to the point it gets diabetic. Callable classes really? For example you can write MyClass()(); Underscore to mark a variable or a function private, but you can still use an underscore to declare a variable inside a function so it muddles the comprehension. Are we going to lose some precious milliseconds if we have to write private in front of a variable? There's also the need to use buildrunner for almost everything since the language wasn't thought out for modern use cases. It works, but this is very inelegant IMHO. When I peak at the generated code I don't feel fluent in Dart quite the opposite. Then there's the ultra strict linter that won't let me add an empty new line where I want. The resulting code is very compact and is harder to read.
- faldore 5y ago
- chgibb 5y ago
  I am slowly trying to make this happen https://hydro-sdk.io/ https://hydro-sdk.io/
sprite 5y ago
I took the Appbrewery course and it seemed extremely basic and also not updated for latest Flutter versions. I found the free Flutter Apprentice on Ray Wenderlich site much better.

Highly recommend the appbrewery flutter bootcamp (it’s a video course). It’s $10 and will get you up and running quickly. I have no affiliation with them other than as a happy customer.

jmnicolas 5y ago

I took it last year, the woman has a mesmerizing voice! (and the course is great too :D) If you're an experienced software dev it's a bit basic. I like Flutter a lot, but I'm not a fan of Dart. It's a false friend, it makes you believe it's simple and mostly a copy of your favorite language, but once you start to dig a little deeper it feels like something bolted on, hacky, not designed. I come from the .net world which is the exact opposite: C# is a superb language but every UI framework MS has ever produced is sub par. Now if I could get Flutter with C# I would be a happy man.

vanillax 5y ago
Just learn native flutter and dart. If you cant learn a new lang, you shouldn't be developing.
voidmain0001 5y ago
Flutnet[1] - either a dream come true, or a nightmare. [1] https://www.flutnet.com/ https://www.flutnet.com/
- cutler 5y ago
  I don't really get this. Both Flutter and Xamarin are hybrid frameworks. Mixing them up just seems ..... pointless. What's there to be gained?
- jmnicolas 5y ago
  Wow I never encountered Flutnet before. It's more of a nightmare IMHO, my goal moving to flutter was to avoid Xamarin in the first place!
cweagans 5y ago
Huh. I really enjoy Dart and found a lot of it very elegant. What about it did you not like?
- abelsm 5y ago
  yes, we've been writing a lot of Dart over the last couple of years and also enjoy it quite a lot. interested in hearing what issues GP faced.
- jmnicolas 5y ago
  Of course it's highly subjective but here are a few examples: There's too much syntactic sugar for my taste to the point it gets diabetic. Callable classes really? For example you can write MyClass()(); Underscore to mark a variable or a function private, but you can still use an underscore to declare a variable inside a function so it muddles the comprehension. Are we going to lose some precious milliseconds if we have to write private in front of a variable? There's also the need to use buildrunner for almost everything since the language wasn't thought out for modern use cases. It works, but this is very inelegant IMHO. When I peak at the generated code I don't feel fluent in Dart quite the opposite. Then there's the ultra strict linter that won't let me add an empty new line where I want. The resulting code is very compact and is harder to read.
faldore 5y ago
chgibb 5y ago
I am slowly trying to make this happen https://hydro-sdk.io/ https://hydro-sdk.io/

sprite 5y ago

I took the Appbrewery course and it seemed extremely basic and also not updated for latest Flutter versions. I found the free Flutter Apprentice on Ray Wenderlich site much better.