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by mleonhard 1738 days ago
I also worked at Google. Now I'm using Google's Flutter to build a mobile app. I worry that Flutter will stagnate and become unusable on mobile before I can afford native rewrites. Flutter's mobile support is already stagnating. Flutter Team has left many mobile features half-implemented: iOS widgets [0], dark mode [1], location [2], and camera [3]. They even hired an outside company to work on Flutter mobile extensions [4]. Flutter's engineers have moved on to web and desktop. Others have written [5] about this.

Beware depending on any Google tool for your business.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/d51o4w/were_the...

[1] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/80860

[2] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/31453

[3] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/70751

[4] https://medium.com/flutter/flutter-package-ecosystem-update-...

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/ju2zza/flutters...