Interesting timing, since I've just started experimenting with this. I'm a Web/TypeScript developer who wants to create a mobile application which doesn't do too much fancy stuff, but will rely on some esoteric WebView logic (think injected scripts) and possibly a Rust module. I've been reading up on Flutter and React Native, and am currently in the process of the Flutter "Hello World" tutorial. So far I've been really impressed with the docs, but I'm literally on hour two of this experiment.
I'll probably try React native too, but I've been using React for six years and frankly I'm sick of it - I wanted a change of pace, and I feel like React Native is a bit of a crutch for web developers. Sure you can keep using TypeScript and CSS and everything in a WebView, but you end up with a janky application that buckles under the weight of all its abstraction layers. And it seems like a lot of effort just to avoid learning something new.
What I absolutely do not want to do is code the same thing twice, once for Android and once for iOS. So far it seems like Flutter or React Native are the best options. This blog post [0] convinced me to experiment with Flutter first.
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Interesting timing, since I've just started experimenting with this. I'm a Web/TypeScript developer who wants to create a mobile application which doesn't do too much fancy stuff, but will rely on some esoteric WebView logic (think injected scripts) and possibly a Rust module. I've been reading up on Flutter and React Native, and am currently in the process of the Flutter "Hello World" tutorial. So far I've been really impressed with the docs, but I'm literally on hour two of this experiment.
I'll probably try React native too, but I've been using React for six years and frankly I'm sick of it - I wanted a change of pace, and I feel like React Native is a bit of a crutch for web developers. Sure you can keep using TypeScript and CSS and everything in a WebView, but you end up with a janky application that buckles under the weight of all its abstraction layers. And it seems like a lot of effort just to avoid learning something new.
What I absolutely do not want to do is code the same thing twice, once for Android and once for iOS. So far it seems like Flutter or React Native are the best options. This blog post [0] convinced me to experiment with Flutter first.
[0] https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/10/31/comparing-frameworks-f...