Flutter vs. the world
Hey everyone
I saw you guys seem to hate flutter, and I don't want to use this either
Are there some cool techs out there to build small iOS & Android app? What do you use?
I just want to play around a little bit and try things on mobile (never did mobile dev, wanna try out), are PWAs a viable option or maybe React Native?
What are the trending techs in mobile as nextjs is trending for web?
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Expo! You can also look into Solito, which is essentially react native + next
Expo
Expo
Expo is an open-source platform for making universal native apps for Android, iOS, and the web with JavaScript and React.
Nice, didn't knew either one
Are these really use in the professional world? I don't want to work with it, just curious 🙂
React native definitely is (which is basically what expo is), I believe solito is fairly new
yeah react native seems pretty production ready as far as I saw
I'm going to play a bit with expo this week end I guess!
Gl!
thank you for the links 🙂
damn expo looks clean
As mentioned, react native via Expo is a very popular choice.
there are some alternatives like nativescript, dominative, rehax-native, weex, etc.
pwa used to have the catch that ios didnt support push notifications. with ios16 thats changed a bit. however, not every can or will update to 16 immediately. A remaining PWA issue is background task limitations. afaik, you cant set alarm to go off later etc.
on the horizon we will see thing like Tauri, Wails, socket.sh producing mobile apps using web tech.
and there will prob be some exploration in rust canvas type rendering, eg Frui a flutter alternative written in rust and MakePad
theres even kivy if you use python 🙃
unless you really know what ur doing, RN based tech is really the only reasonable choice from a web angle atm. but its good to keep an eye on the emerging tech
its usually a good idea to decide early on what distribution goal is tho. Just mobile is fine, but if you desire code sharing with a website or desktop app, then you should plan accordingly
Oh right didn't knew that about PWAs
yeah for the moment the goal is not to make anything viable, I just want to play with things and see how mobile works
I guess we will see Rust alternatives for everything now 😅
you’ll probably starting seeing more rust mobile next year (which is not far off!).
tauri mobile inst out yet and leptos just launched. those would be the two i’d pick (atm) for a web tech based mobile app using a rust stack.
might be a bit b4 rust widget library is in a good place, so rust-canvas based rendered may lag behind for a bit
Wdym by rust in mobile?
rust framework like turbopack is or native rust compiling to mobile?
writing UI in rust to target mobile, either native elements , canvas, or web based DOM
ok then, looking forward to play with this in a few month 🙂