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Google’s Flutter: Mobile, Web & Desktop Frontends from 1 Codebase?

The phone is the main computer for consumers today. Even enterprise users increasingly rely on mobile devices. Now native mobile applications often provide a better user experience than web applications. But developing two different applications for iOS and Android is usually too expensive.

Cross-platform frameworks promise salvation and deliver iOS and Android apps with one codebase. Like Google's Flutter, some even give us web & desktop frontends, too! And Google says Flutter is "the most popular cross-platform UI toolkit" with half a million apps. So, does Flutter deliver?


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Karsten Silz

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer

Karsten Silz has worked as a full-stack Java developer for 23 years in Europe and the US. In 2004, he co-founded a software product start-up in the US. Karsten led product development for 13 years and left after the company was sold successfully. Since 2017, he has been a contractor in Germany...

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Date

Tuesday May 10 / 12:20PM EDT (50 minutes)

Track

Current Trends in Frontends

Topics

FrontendsMobile DevelopmentMobileDevelopmentUXUser Interface

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