Flutter VS capacitor

Flutter arrived in 2017 as a Google project promising scalable cross-platform mobile development. It offers a batteries-included approach and comes with a comprehensive set of Material UI-themed components for building your interface. It uses declarative rendering, like React Native, but relies on the Dart programming language instead of JavaScript.

Meanwhile, Flutter has seen extraordinary growth over the past few years, with some months recording a 10 percent uplift in developer count. Its GitHub repository has more forks and stars than React Native’s, indicating the community interest it’s attracted. Flutter's popularity can be attributed to the platform's comprehensiveness, strong performance, and backing by Google.

Flutter is a mobile app SDK for building high-performance, high-fidelity, apps for iOS and Android, from a single codebase.

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Agreed, still unable to take a high res photo from any device using their own camera plugin.

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/58163#issuecomment...

Sighhh. Maybe one day.

Please check the contribution guide: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING....

We strive to be an open community. Anyone can become a Flutter team member if they frequently contribute :)

We've got a guide here that covers some of these areas: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING....

For a lot of first-time contributors, improved documentation and added tests are a great way to dip toes into the water. We also have a 'good first contribution' tag on our issues log that might be a source of inspiration:

Flutter (Google) 1.1k contributors 150k stars

Another option is to use Flutter. I've never built anything with it but seems straightforward and it works on all platforms.

There are layers that offer access to native APIs like capacitor, cordova and nativescript. Apparently sometimes multiple of them should be used, but I didn't understand what are the differences even after reading the announcement. These seem to be frontend agnostic technologies and Capacitor is apparently the more modern choice at the moment.

Konsta UI + Capacitor.JS + some native code for operating the printer. You can see the result here.

Depending on the nature of your app, if it's graphic intense, you might have to go native. I haven't done it at scale but used to build small ionic apps with cordova, it worked pretty well besides the fact that there's a lot of unmaintained Cordova plugins, otherwise it could get your idea from 0 to 1 real quick. As others mentioned, ionic team built their own Cordova now and it's called capacitor and they maintain the plugins for that. It seems like it's framework agnostic so you should be able to use any frontend tech you prefer. That said I haven't personally used it myself, just been hearing people saying how good the exp is. Been meaning to try it out myself haha

Take a look at capacitor, it’s basically what electron is but for mobile apps.

Hybrid - web app opened in a web view inside of a mobile app - we build web app and then use Capacitor for example to run this web app inside of a native mobile app,

Use capacitorjs to create a binary container - and it will allow you to create one codebase for alle these targets, and have all sorts plugin support https://capacitorjs.com/

Congrats on the release! From the looks of it Capacitor[0] has quite a big lead on in terms of support for native APIs (secure storage, SSL pinning, biometrics, etc) but hopefully they'll catch up quickly and avoid some of the mistakes Capacitor has made.

Definitely keeping an eye on this.

[0] https://capacitorjs.com/

Finally we will install Capacitor to quickly build a native iOS and Android app from our Angular app.