The Battle of Technologies
For years, many developers and evangelists have compared technologies against one another which could stand the test of time. Gathering the masses of like-minded people to weigh up one technology against another, similar to good vs evil, a battle of David vs Goliath or if you should drink your tea with or without milk.
Alas!! This article will be no different!
With the dramatic entrance concluded, I do want to give a comparison, my personal feedback and view after working in both technologies building mobile applications, for myself and for customers. To give context to my professional experience in Version 1, I’ve worked mainly with customers in the Public Sector, the Agriculture Industry and with global companies from the Pharmaceutical Industry. …
Introduction
I first heard about Flutter when I was searching through Medium. “Flutter the future of mobile”, “Why you should learn Flutter in 2020”, “How to use Flutter and influence people” (made that one up but totally using it for another article!) flooded a lot of the search results. Reading article after article about how great people were saying Flutter was, I thought I would add this framework to the tool belt (another way to not finish my side projects).
I decided I was going to build an app in my spare time after learning some of the basics on Flutter. I work as a mobile developer, so I have mobile experience and I didn’t believe the transition would be too difficult. But I wanted to set some challenges when building the app. For this, I decided to come up with the below list of constraints for myself to make building the app a bit more fun. …
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