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Honestly, I don't recommend Flutter for mobile either. I've heard it joking referred to as "the other F-word" because of the performance and compatibility issues it leads to.

Any source to back this claim?

For performance, take the example of the original native Google Pay and the GPay flutter rewrite. The original had much smoother scrolling than the flutter version (on a Pixel 6). Now Google's decided to bring the original back as "Wallet".

As for compatibility, I don't remember the exact details, but it was something along the lines of "the API we need exists, but is limited to google code only, so we can't use it".

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