I looked at Kotlin and decided to go with Flutter.

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I've mostly done Android development with Kotlin.

What were some of the things that made you choose Flutter instead?

I'm planning on going back to Android development and want to know if it's worth my while to learn Flutter.

Multiplatform.

Nostr app dev momentum around it.

Fine-grained control over UI custom painting (I build design packages).

Resources about it.

Yeah, I started out with the dart library, but had to fall "out" to Flutter because I had so much weird stuff that he wasn't covering.

I looked into Kotlin, as that's normally the one I heard about, but I'm rolling with the dart.

I'm testing the Flutter on Chrome Desktop and Android Mobile Phone, and there's a lot of overlap, but some mobile design decisions don't make sense on a larger screen.

And I had to scratch my initial database choice, so that it works well on all platforms.

im always surprised when i go to do some mobile dev and realize there is nothing but sqlite or similar crap dbs.. me thinking it is linux, and could run a proper database, but, it doesn't exist for some reason. 😅

Hard to break out of the browser sandbox. That's why we're going to add the Tauri on GRW and I'm doing Flutter on Alex. Need native support for this stuff.

But browser is always the first step, IMO.

yeah, db's are even worse on browsers, but not by much. it's the whole, having a phone as powerful as a laptop only to have native dev be just as limited. so dystopian.

Yeah, sort of weird.