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Andris

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Recently, Google announced availability of their Beta SDK for Flutter, their "mobile UI framework for crafting high-quality native interfaces on iOS and Android in record time." Does anyone have experience with it yet? And what's its potential for affecting our B4X work?
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LWGShane

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I've read about it. I don't think that it will affect B4X.
Another question is would you even think of transitioning B4A and B4i to Flutter?
 

Andris

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I've read about it. I don't think that it will affect B4X.

That's good to hear Erel! From looking at it, I can't see it coming close to B4X in development speed. And as usual, B4X is ahead of the pack ...
 

AHilton

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One of my programmers has been making Dart servers (running under the Dart VM) for awhile and she really likes the language. It's produced some good tools and she's been wanting to experiment with Dart under Flutter to tie her servers into the mobile area instead of just browsers. From the initial looks of it, it seems compelling and we're going to see what it can do in the (our) real world. It certainly has some advantages over lots of other professional development environments.

There's talk of Flutter being positioned to being featured on a (possibly) new Google OS, as well. But, of course, that's just speculation. Still, it's amazing how fast reality comes from speculation these days. Except, you know, the early-mid 90's.

I'm still reluctant to fully abandon desktop UI's for the types of bread-and-butter systems we create although the writing has been on the wall for fully browser-based for awhile now. Depending on how her experiments go on the mobile side, it could change some of what we do in mobile development platforms. If a professional development environment can offer development speed, platform reach and sufficient numbers of programmers for the future, then that's the way we'll go.
 
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