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It’s hardly some toy SDK that is only suitable for MVPs. Google’s single biggest money maker Ads is built with it. It’s hardly a Google specific thing either th
by mhoad 4y ago
It’s hardly some toy SDK that is only suitable for MVPs. Google’s single biggest money maker Ads is built with it. It’s hardly a Google specific thing either there are a number of mega sized players also strongly betting on it for some fairly mission critical stuff if I understood correctly.
- wiseowise 4y ago> Google’s single biggest money maker Ads is built with it. If Flutter disappeared tomorrow nobody would even notice it. How much functionality do you think is there?
- kjksf 4y agoIn March 2021 there were 150 thousand Flutter apps in Google Play store. In May 2022 - 500 thousand. See: https://www.nomtek.com/blog/flutter-app-examples https://www.nomtek.com/blog/flutter-app-examples Today: I'm too lazy but you can google for more up-to-date stats. "nobody" is gigantically wrong. Flutter is extremely popular in mobile. Web and desktop support is behind but it'll improve and popularity of Flutter on desktop and web will grow too.
- wiseowise 4y agoI meant in Google Ads. How much is the front end there anyway?
- scarface74 4y agoYou realize that even Google doesn’t use Flutter in their cross platform consumer apps. https://9to5google.com/2021/10/10/google-ios-apps-native/ https://9to5google.com/2021/10/10/google-ios-apps-native/ And just because “mega sized players” are betting on it has never stopped Google from abandoning projects before.
- capableweb 4y ago> Google’s single biggest money maker Ads is built with it You mean Google Adwords right, the admin panel? I can't see any evidence of that, nor is it listed at https://flutter.dev/showcase https://flutter.dev/showcase, where you get this from?
- malkia 4y agoGoogle Ads is written in Flutter - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.adwords&hl=en_US&gl=US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... - if you go download, skip the welcoming bits, and go to licensing you'll see lots of flutter libraries including flutter itself
- capableweb 4y agoRight, when people say "Google’s single biggest money maker" they're talking about Adwords, which is usually accessed via the web, not a Android app called "Google Ads".
- satvikpendem 4y agoTo be fair, it's all the same thing underneath, the Ads app is the same as AdWords on web. "Google's biggest money maker" isn't referring to either AdWords the website or the Ads mobile app, it's talking about the underlying ads product itself, ie what gets shown on websites, these are simply UIs over that.
- capableweb 4y ago> the Ads app is the same as AdWords on web Clearly not, the AdWords on the web is rendered using the DOM, while a Flutter application will be rendered via a canvas DOM element. You can try this yourself by opening up the inspector. Where the ads are mostly shown, is also built using normal (in the web sense) DOM elements, either images or text, rather than Flutter canvas elements.
- satvikpendem 4y agoGoogle AdWords is made with Dart, specifically AngularDart, not Flutter. Edit: yes, Google Ads the mobile app is made with Flutter.
- mhoad 4y agoSorry I was referring to the mobile apps not the web experience.
- satvikpendem 4y agoWhere does it show that the mobile app is in Flutter?
- mhoad 4y agoUnder the settings screen there is a software licenses section. In there.
- satvikpendem 4y agoNeat, it says Powered by Flutter on Android. That's pretty cool.
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