Today marks an important milestone for the Flutter framework, as we expand our focus from mobile to incorporate a broader set of devices and form factors. At I/O, we’re releasing our first technical preview of Flutter for web, announcing that Flutter is powering Google’s smart display platform including the Google Home Hub, and delivering our first steps towards supporting desktop-class apps with Chrome OS.
Do any OSNews readers with a far better grip on such frameworks than I do have experience with Flutter?
I do. It is a fantastic platform.
We have used hybrid, native, React Native and ended up with Flutter.
It is way more productive than all the alternatives.
* Same source code
* Same look on both iOS and Android and web in the future.
* Release builds are native (no java VM)
* Debug builds are very fast to modify.
Think software designed purely for Gnome 3. Bleh.
Think software designed purely for Gnome 3 users. Bleh.
How do you feel about using Dart? Is it ok or would you wish another language?
I think Flutter is some of the most promising things I’ve seen in UI frameworks these days. It combines a bunch of great ideas from other UI frameworks, like the functional-reactive pattern (React, etc…), with a pretty nice language (Dart), a low level drawing model that very easily allows you to create custom stuff (actually haven’t seen this many other places, but unsure if particularly new or not). The performance is high enough that you can make 2D games with it as well.
For me it would be absolutely perfect if it had official native desktop support, so I’m personally super exited about their work on that.