Dopes anyone know any good mobile app frameworks that are open source. I would like to be able to develop from windows, but move over to a mac (I own one) when I build for IOS. I want raw NATIVE ui provided by SwiftUI and whatever android has (material design I think).

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I firmly believe you should develop apps natively for that platform. That means jetpack-compose for android, and swift ui for iOS.

    These write-once-for-all platforms layers are always bloated, slow, unoptimized, and behind the official native specs.

    Decent programmers know how to learn new languages and frameworks as necessary, and most of the concepts are the same across programming languages. Nothing near as difficult as learning a real language.

    • guymontag@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 months ago

      Yes, I hate the bloat aswell! However, I really like that native feel(idk why its just SO nice). I was planning on making my own sketchy framework using the Haxe programming language, which compiles to other platforms, so performance wouldn’t be a problem; however, it doesn’t support swift or objc, I still haven’t found a suitable solution.

  • glitching@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I’m outta that racket, but way back when I used flutter/Dart, specifically because multiplatform support was a must and having dedicated Android/iOS/web devs wasn’t in the budget. no idea how the landscape is now, I imagine react native is the thing. as to performance, it was way faster than the alternatives of its time (meteor, ionic, etc), but still laged a bit behind native app development.

    • guymontag@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 months ago

      I just really hate the flutter ecosystem tbh. The whole dart language just isn’t my thing.