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In 2019, I joined a project with other 2 partners to develop an app for audiobooks. The CTO said the app should be done using Flutter and he sold it like it was
by meerita 5y ago
In 2019, I joined a project with other 2 partners to develop an app for audiobooks. The CTO said the app should be done using Flutter and he sold it like it was paradise on earth. I disagreed but couldn't push that much to try to convince the rest of the guys about this detail.
On month 8 on the project, the CTO resigns and leave, leaving us 8 months ahead of no major development because it was impossible to find Flutter people and, most importantly, people who were proficient on that platform. In the end we relied on an agency, paying a huge price to do upgrades.
Nowadays I am doing a RN project and the speed, results still put that over any option I could do. I would only pick Flutter once it reaches a degree of maturity in all terms like RN.
- vsareto 5y ago> because it was impossible to find Flutter people and, most importantly, people who were proficient on that platform If you can't find them, you gotta train them
- meerita 5y agoWe did that with one guy after month 3, the guy accepted and started Flutter course, etc. He quit the job on month 5 arguing he disliked Flutter and Dart.
- penjelly 5y agosample size of 1. It may not have been for that individual but that doesnt mean hiring and training on the job is incorrect
- meerita 5y agoCorrect, but the reality was we couldn't afford a larger sample to see if Flutter is superior or not to other options.
- questiondev 5y agoi’ve trained on flutter for over 8 months and pushed an from design to app on the app store and built the api in dart as well. i am one of those weirdos who likes it but nobody is hiring so i am rebrushing back up on javascript and react native. one area i would love to see is json being automatically accessible just like in javascript, also their routing in flutter needs work. it’s not for everyone but it has a ton of potential if some things get change
- lvass 5y agoAny idea how long it should take? I don't do frontend, but when I tried making GUIs back in the Tk heydays, it was feasible to cook up a very functional GUI in the first day of learning/usage.
- penjelly 5y ago6 months for learning and becoming proficient in a new framework/language
- meerita 5y agoAny guy with reasonable coding experience in frontend or backend can do a project in React Native in less than one month. I was CSS/HTML frontend development back in the days and it took me one month to learn JS+React Native. It's very convinient and straightfoward process. In Flutter, with all the widget, folders, environment/IDE setup, concepts. It takes longer.