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by realusername 1277 days ago
I only use it to release on iOS for flutter, every click takes 3 seconds, project files get random changes everytime and it plays badly with git, every update takes 12GB (not joking) and the app upload is so broken even apple had to release a third party upload tool to bypass it.

Just using it to compile the app to release it is very painful, I can't imagine doing any serious work with that kind of software.

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I don’t work in flutter but I wouldn’t be surprised, having worked in react-native, if there isn’t a massive amount of native deps under the hood that have to be rebuilt often that are slowing things down more than your typical entirely native app. I’d look into fastlane and automating your uploads outside xcode it is not too bad to write a script to do this for you.
Yeah I tried fastlane but unfortunately it did not work, I'm still keeping a macbook in a box for releasing in the mean time.