Which IDE do you use for flutter? They are trying to get a good Preview working on Android studio. It's still quite limited, but when it works it's a killer.
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I've been using, and absolutely loving, Android Studio + Cursor with VS code for about a week now.
Virtual devices of Android Studio are surprisingly snappy on my low-end MacBook Air.
Yeah, the phone emulation is quite well done.
Though keep in mind that it's really hard to predict the finger interface/animation smoothness from the mouse interface when you move to a real device. I keep making interactive zones too small on the emulator.
Yes, I've seen that already too.
I keep sending APK's to my phone for testing but that's only worth it for testing a bunch of "final" widgets at a time. Especially with things like this ZapSlider there's quite some quirks to iron out.