Well, @Dave, I have to admit that your request, made more than 2 years ago, was really relevant and correct! At that time, I was just getting to know Flutter, and although I liked it, I shared @George thoughts about not mixing web technologies with something else. However, today, I can say for sure that Flutter is the best solution for cross-platform development of mobile applications. The technology is stable, actively developed and maintained, there is a lot of documentation, articles and videos, and a very active community. But most importantly, it works great. Application performance is simply not comparable compared to js + cordova
. It is especially noticeable when the application works with large amounts of data. In cordova applications, this can turn into hell for the user when the application interface is completely frozen until processing is done.
What prompted me to write this text? FlutterFlow - these guys launched in March 2021 (just 7 months ago!) and have already caught an incredible hype to date. Even though their instrument is incredibly raw. I look at their tool, see so much in common with the concept of Wappler and remember this request… What if 2 years ago Wappler would have decided to implement this functionality? To date, we would already have the best full-stack tool in absolutely all areas of cross-platform development (mobile applications, desktop applications and web applications), and Wappler itself would have a huge army of subscribers in the person of flutter adherents.
P.S. By the way, @George, @patrick and @Teodor, I want to say a special thank you for your attitude towards us, the users of your product. Everything is known in comparison. And when I got into the FlutterFlow community, I realized how lucky we all are with you. There is practically no documentation, very few videos, and there is no adequate tool for communication with the community. Instead of a forum, there is only a discord channel, from which you can learn little. At the same time, the developers themselves do not get in touch.
P.S.S. I forgot to say that I think this function is still relevant. Even more relevant than before, because the hypothesis about the necessity and expediency of this technology has been confirmed in practice. With the competencies of the Wappler team, it seems to me that an implementation would be several times superior to FlutterFlow. So everyone who is thinking at least a little about the future, please vote for this feature, don’t make my mistake that I made 2 years ago.)