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by moritzmoritz21 2101 days ago
Sorry to play the bad boy here.

But we have 2020 these 2 Apps (Android and iOS) are looking like websites from the 90s.

I don't get the point why everyone wants to add a framework to write one codebase and deploy on many platforms.

There are great working frameworks out here why we need the 100 framework doing this?

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Because everyone wants their preferred set of tools/languages to do it using the design patterns they like and there is nothing wrong with that. I don't see myself using Beeware ever really but that doesn't mean people shouldn't work on it.
the last line of the comment you replied to gave a pretty good example: If you have tools build in tech X and just want to wrap them in a UI to make them usable on a phone. (similar to how Python ships with Tk bindings for UI: no, its not pretty, but it's an UI and thats what you want sometimes, without learning something big or worse a different tech stack)
> Looks very interesting, going to give it a go adding guis to some existing cli python toys I've built

and your python cli you want as bundled iOS/Android app? I don't buy it.

But anyway everyone has different problems and if this 1000 framework is solving this, congrats :clap:

Because if I can compile an iOS app in Python I don't need to give Apple (as much) money.
I mean, you’d still need to give them money for the dev tools if you happen upon some iOS specific bug.