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sebe
7y ago
They do say "Flutter is a great way to build Chrome OS apps" and they say "Because Chrome OS runs Android apps, targeting Android is the way to build Chrome OS apps." The article is about chromeos and flutter, to make it
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sebe
7y ago
I'm interested to try flutter out on chromeos, I might get a chromebox, the acer and hp i5 U series are the recommended ones for Android development. Developing flutter without the need for a simulator or a phone connected via usb, is
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sebe
7y ago
They are working on it, you can check the wiki/Desktop-shells link below for progress. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Desktop-shells they say - "Work is ongoing to extend Flutter to support
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sebe
8y ago
The chrome guys who started the sky experiment, now flutter, used JavaScript for the first few iterations. I think they went with Dart because they were able to get the Dart GC customised for flutter. The big feature that the Flutter team g
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sebe
8y ago
With regards Flutter, keen to see it come to the desktop, there are some experiments. https://github.com/Norbert515/flutter_ide
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sebe
8y ago
Like a game engine, Flutter draws every pixel, compiles to native arm code, so you can create a custom design across android and ios or use the supplied material design and ios widgets. Also they had an event in London last month, if you do
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sebe
8y ago
Interesting thing is Flutter was started as an experiment by guys on the chrome team, Ian Hickson, co-editor of the CSS 2.1 spec, works on Flutter as a TL. An aim of the Flutter team is to improve the developer experience. Google uses a des
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8y ago
Their website has some tutorials https://flutter.io/docs/reference/tutorials and it has a getting started for mobile and web devs https://flutter.io/docs/get-started/flutter-for/an
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sebe
8y ago
They have started a "Dart FFI project" https://gist.github.com/mraleph/2582b57737711da40262fad71215...
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sebe
8y ago
Michael Thomsen's Coldfront talk is up on youtube, https://youtu.be/sl5TaN7EwjQ
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sebe
8y ago
Going with Dart gave flutter - complied to machine code - fast GC - stateful Hotreload, a feature of the Dart vm use in dev builds. My understanding is Dart originally started out with a vm along with a Dart-to-JavaScript compiler. The Dart
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sebe
8y ago
Hey I've been following Dartlang's up and downs over the years, here are some ramblings about Flutter. When the chrome guys started the Sky experiment, now the flutter project, they started with javascript. I don't know why t
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sebe
8y ago
Some dart ramblings. Seems to me, that the Chrome team is responsible for Dart demise and its later flutter inspired resurgent. Flutter was started by people in the chrome team, as an experimental project called sky. With regards to making
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sebe
8y ago
With chromeos support for android apps, I wonder if a chromebox, that has android support, could fire up a futter/android app in kiosk mode. Maybe it's possible to do with a pc running chromium os.
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sebe
8y ago
I posted this earlier, I think accessibility was a requirement for an internal google flutter app, have you had a chance to look at https://flutter.io/accessibility/
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sebe
8y ago
I think accessibility was a requirement for an internal google flutter app, have you had a chance to look at https://flutter.io/accessibility/
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sebe
9y ago
Here is an article on why flutter uses dart. https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebf Some tidbits from what I've read, etc, about Flutter - They moved to Dart from JavaScript three years ago, after lo
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sebe
9y ago
I think the sub second hot reload feature, makes it cool. Have a look at the "Unified layout" section in https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebf and or install the flutter plugin in vs code or an
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sebe
9y ago
Fuchsia docs says POSIX lite and Web runtime, under Backwards compatibility. More info at https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/HEAD/book.md#zircon-... You can fire up the fuchsia in qemu, as it requires ha
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sebe
9y ago
>Fuchsia will be using Dart instead of Java The current sysui is flutter/dart based, Flutter is google's newish mobile app sdk, the guys who started it have work on the chrome team, it's in alpha and has support android an
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sebe
9y ago
Fuchsia can display web content, it has a web view that currently webkit based not chrome/blink. I think the plan is to use chrome/chromium web browser, once/if arrives in fuchsia,that will be interesting.
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sebe
9y ago
I've had a play with Fuchsia via qemu on linux and it has web_view so can display webpages, don't know when or if chrome web browser will arrive. Fuschia book say it has Backwards compatibility, POSIX lite and Web runtime https: