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by satvikpendem 8 days ago
Flutter is great, still the fastest way to make cross platform mobile apps and you get desktop and web support essentially for free.

Performance is very fast as it's all natively AOT compiled machine code without any web views like Electron.
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greekrich92 8 days ago
On desktop does flutter have native access to the machine it's running on? Can it talk to printers for example?
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Zigurd 7 days ago
I have successfully added AppFunctions on Android to a Flutter app. I figure that's about as hairy a platform-specific feature as it gets. So far nothing has interfered with other platform build targets. I look forward to adding Apple's agentic tool calling interface, too.
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satvikpendem 8 days ago
Of course, via FFI. Not sure why one would think it couldn't, it's just a programming language based GUI framework after all.
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