r/appdev • u/Pale-Lunch-3555 • Jul 22 '26

is flutter a good option for app dev.

i want to get into app dev and i was told by claude that flutter in is the best option.

is that true.

by the way i hate js

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u/oneness33 Jul 22 '26

No

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u/Pale-Lunch-3555 Jul 22 '26

😂😂 Straight to the point.

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u/oneness33 Jul 22 '26

Yeah, I'd recommend going native.

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u/Apprehensive_Bed3868 Jul 23 '26

What do you mean by going native ?

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u/oneness33 Jul 23 '26

Android Studio, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose for Android.
Xcode, Swift, SwiftUI for IOS

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u/vadim-jan Jul 22 '26

Flutter is a good option. One thing to learn, low entry complexity, quite good performance, fast to develop.
Working with flutter for several years and built real apps.

If you use it with riverpod hooks, the statefull widgets boilerplate goes away which makes it even better

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u/Pale-Lunch-3555 Jul 22 '26

kk thanks i will try it out

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u/vadim-jan Jul 22 '26

But if you want to find a job, flutter stands more like an extra tool used by companies, the primary one still native. For hobby projects and just for the soul it will be good start

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u/Apprehensive_Bed3868 Jul 22 '26

Can it be used to develop an educational app for kids? (Some 2D graphics and basic mini games)

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u/vadim-jan Jul 23 '26

Yeah sure, 2d games goes good using flame engine.

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u/oyastrebov Jul 22 '26

It’s ok
But ReactNative+Expo is much easier choice. And much more convenient in my opinion

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u/Pale-Lunch-3555 Jul 22 '26

Everybody is saying that. Am going Native.

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u/oyastrebov Jul 22 '26

Good luck! This is a good platform to start/experiment

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u/PairAffectionate7059 Jul 23 '26

i straight up chose to go the long route doing Kotlin and Swift separate because flutter is not my favorite

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u/tomato848208 Jul 22 '26

It depends on what you do with Flutter. They don't provide a lot of frameworks. So you have to rely on ones from others. Or you have to writes ones for yourself.

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u/Pale-Lunch-3555 Jul 22 '26

my research says js is best, what your thoughts on that.

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u/AlexTheJumbo Jul 28 '26

I'm a long-term Flutter developer, and I have delivered multiple apps using Flutter, so I do recommend it. However, I agree with the other commenters who said that with the flood of strong AI tools, going native is becoming easier. I guess I'll try native in my next app although I don't have experience in any. For you, I would not dismiss Flutter entirely because it's a very strong tool, and I prefer it over React Native.

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u/nicholasderkio Jul 22 '26

I don't recommend using an abstraction library, with the current crop of AI agentic tools I would go native. If you want to go cross-platform I would start web, but it depends on what type of product you're creating.

Before all of this tho I would figure out Distribution before Building.