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I'm more worried that if Fuchsia goes, Flutter will go with it too. Flutter is actually a useful framework.

by rjh29 4y ago

scarface74 4y ago
Not useful enough for Google to use in most of their own cross platform apps… https://9to5google.com/2021/10/10/google-ios-apps-native/ https://9to5google.com/2021/10/10/google-ios-apps-native/
- baggsie 4y ago
  The only one I can think of is Stadia... which was killed this week.
- rjh29 4y ago
  Aside from that article being quite old, the newest version of Flutter has tons of fixes for iOS. Although at the moment it's mostly used for internal apps.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    So you think Google decided to reverse course again and depend on cross platform frameworks? Facebook also realized that they had to go full native a long time ago. You should always worry when your platform vendor doesn’t eat their own dog food. Besides Flutter will always be behind tsking advantage of the latest iOS features - especially if Google doesn’t depend on it. This is also one of the major complaints about some of Apple’s APIs especially on the Watch. Even worse, Apple has specialized equipment that makes Watch development faster than it is on the outside.
    - timsneath 4y ago
      We're using Flutter for plenty of apps internally. Just yesterday we showed off Google Classroom, which has just been rewritten using Flutter for both iOS and Android. Classroom also uses Flutter for the web-based practice sets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVJF_M9bgj4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVJF_M9bgj4 (Disclosure: I work on the Flutter team.)
baggsie 4y ago
My money's on Kotlin Cross platform being the viable longterm solution.
RetpolineDrama 4y ago
Companies that bet big on flutter are in for a world of pain when google abandons it. You'll end up with a huge legacy codebase and dart devs that are useless for most other platforms. I do expect there will be lots of $$$ rebuilding legacy flutter apps in SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose

I'm more worried that if Fuchsia goes, Flutter will go with it too. Flutter is actually a useful framework.

by rjh29 4y ago

I'm more worried that if Fuchsia goes, Flutter will go with it too. Flutter is actually a useful framework.

Not useful enough for Google to use in most of their own cross platform apps… https://9to5google.com/2021/10/10/google-ios-apps-native/ https://9to5google.com/2021/10/10/google-ios-apps-native/

baggsie 4y ago
The only one I can think of is Stadia... which was killed this week.
rjh29 4y ago
Aside from that article being quite old, the newest version of Flutter has tons of fixes for iOS. Although at the moment it's mostly used for internal apps.
- scarface74 4y ago
  So you think Google decided to reverse course again and depend on cross platform frameworks? Facebook also realized that they had to go full native a long time ago. You should always worry when your platform vendor doesn’t eat their own dog food. Besides Flutter will always be behind tsking advantage of the latest iOS features - especially if Google doesn’t depend on it. This is also one of the major complaints about some of Apple’s APIs especially on the Watch. Even worse, Apple has specialized equipment that makes Watch development faster than it is on the outside.
  - timsneath 4y ago
    We're using Flutter for plenty of apps internally. Just yesterday we showed off Google Classroom, which has just been rewritten using Flutter for both iOS and Android. Classroom also uses Flutter for the web-based practice sets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVJF_M9bgj4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVJF_M9bgj4 (Disclosure: I work on the Flutter team.)

baggsie 4y ago

My money's on Kotlin Cross platform being the viable longterm solution.

RetpolineDrama 4y ago

Companies that bet big on flutter are in for a world of pain when google abandons it. You'll end up with a huge legacy codebase and dart devs that are useless for most other platforms. I do expect there will be lots of $$$ rebuilding legacy flutter apps in SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose