I have been working with mobile app development a whole lot. Mainly as a backend developer. At King I was part of the Candy Crush team, at MAG I was part of the Ruzzle team and at Like a Boss games I was part of the MatchMVP game. I have from time to time tried to develop mobile apps on my own.
I have opted out native app development since for me that was not an option. I have looked at various cross plaforms frameworks such as LibGDX, Unity and Xamarin. But I gave up on all those frameworks and decided that mobile app development was not for me.
Last summer when I was discussing mobile app development with a colleague at Nasdaq he asked me if I had looked at Flutter. What? I had at that time not even heard about flutter. I downloaded Flutter and gave it a try and I fell in love at first sight. What makes Flutter unique in my view are:
- Platform independent
- Hot reload
- Dart which is a beautiful language
- Flutter Widget's (everything is) are so smartly crafted
- Flutter comes with really good command line tool and IDEA plugin
- Modern reactive framework
And since that time (less then a year) Fluttar has evolved a lot.
So now I have no excuse not to develop an app on my own!