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Flutter is the default choice for future Ubuntu apps

by dangwu on 3/3/21, 4:26 PM with 23 comments

  • by argvargc on 3/3/21, 6:30 PM

    Because Flutter came from Google, I've never considered it.

    EDIT: to those downvoting, this is a serious, sincere question:

    I realise it's a UI framework, but are there any investigations into it phoning home/tracking users etc? Does it pull any resources from Google at runtime for example?

  • by bithavoc on 3/3/21, 4:44 PM

    Can I use flutter without Material Design? It’s one of the things that throws me off about it, all the examples look like Android apps.

  • by leoedin on 3/3/21, 8:22 PM

    I wrote a simple interactive calculator type app in Flutter recently and found the experience mostly good.

    However, the documentation is _terrible_. It looks OK initially - but then you need to use it to find a specific piece of information, and it all falls apart.

    Hopefully Flutter 2 will improve on this.

  • by remir on 3/3/21, 6:33 PM

    I'm curious to see if Flutter could be a viable alternative to Electron for multi-platform apps.

  • by eska on 3/8/21, 5:25 PM

    I read Google's announcement about Flutter 2, and saw that Google Pay switched to it. Of course their developers loved it.

    So I had a look at the app reviews for Google Pay: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

    Everyone laments how the old version was better, the new one is prettied up, bloated, and slower as a result.

  • by ajfjrbfbf on 3/3/21, 5:28 PM

    What's wrong with GTK?

  • by Barrin92 on 3/3/21, 7:21 PM

    recently dabbled in building a mobile app for the first time and of the few frameworks I tried I liked Flutter a lot. It's very complete, Dart was easy to learn and just pleasant. Would be nice to see it on the desktop as well. I've usually sticked to Qt but they seem to be getting more and more restrictive with their licensing.

  • by InitEnabler on 3/6/21, 2:19 AM

    Soooo Flutter desktop environment. Is that even possible?

  • by qnxub on 3/4/21, 3:35 AM

    Calling it now: Ubuntu is working on a Fuchsia distro.

  • by qnsi on 3/3/21, 5:41 PM

    Meanwhile any news about fuchsia?