[MarkMc]

The clicking sound on button presses has been fixed in the latest build, and the Flutter team is working on accessibility. But I agree that a Flutter app will always have some deficiencies compared to a native app.

However, the question is whether a Flutter app will be Good Enough when the alternative is writing two separate apps. I would argue that even in the current alpha stage it's getting pretty close to Good Enough - the Hamilton app was written in Flutter and gets 4.7 stars on Google Play [1] so users aren't too bothered that double-tap doesn't select text.

Java Swing was slow, bloated and looked far less like a native app than Flutter. And in 2003 Windows had a 95% market share, so there was no major benefit to writing a cross-platform desktop application. Things may be different this time.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hamilton.a...

[Illniyar]

As some one who has written cordova apps they often times are also good enough. There are cordova apps in the 4.5 range with 100's of reviews.

Life rpg was one that I remember (now its down to 3.9).

The alternative isn't writing two native apps, the alternatives are cordova, react-native and xamarin.

Frankly I haven't other people's compatibility issues with react native.

[crispinb]

> However, the question is whether a .. [Flutter, Cordova, React-native etc app] .. will be Good Enough when the alternative is writing two separate apps

This is a more important consideration than is often given credit for, perhaps because the perspective we most often read about is the high end of the industry. But vast amounts of software is written to extremely tight budgets, often for small businesses, where there is flat-out zero chance of two native apps being written. It's choose-your-platform, or something cross-platform.

For very many of these kinds of apps, which are pretty much invisible from the blogs/HN/medium world, RN/Flutter/Cordova etc are perfectly appropriate. The fact that these may not be the best platforms from which to use the very latest, most hardware-entwined OS features, or to do highly custom 'delightful' bits of UX, is often in this world quite irrelevant.