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Vitor is right when he says you don't want an iOS-looking app on Android and viceversa.

Flutter goes a long way to give you base themes for Android (Material) and Cupertino (iOS) both of which are very customizable. I do not know whether RN has an equivalent but he put both in the same basket so I'm clarifying.

As long as you respect basic HIG for each you are fine, navigation and inputs in particular. The latest iOS glass effect? Who cares. We got bigger fish to fry.

The world is going to the shitter and we need more apps out there faster.

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franzap 5mo ago

There's also purplestack (early days but pretty decent). I'm not sure if you like AI-assisted coding though

hodlbod 5mo ago

Not really, but I'll use whatever tool works. Maybe I'll give purplestack a try. It would require abandoning my state management library

franzap 5mo ago

I get it. It's probably better than purplebase which doesn't support outbox right now.

You could try other tools to vibe some React Native app. It might just be good enough.

I received hundreds of complaints, requests and bug reports for Zapstore over the last 18 months. Not a single one had to do with Flutter not looking native.

hodlbod 5mo ago

Zapstore does look nice. I feel like iOS has a more distinctive look though

hodlbod 5mo ago

Looking through the massive amount of HIG documentation I can't help but feel that a lot of this stuff is busywork which only hurts UX long-term by diverting effort away from stability and small projects, and toward fashion and large, well-funded projects. But that's nothing new.