Sneak peek at Flutter from iOS developer perspective

A talk by Bohdan Mihiliev.

1. Sneak peek at Flutter from the iOS developer’s perspective 1. Disclamer; 2. Why I picked Flutter; 3. Dart vs Swift; 4. Flutter vs ReactNative; 5. My story with the app: from the idea to AppStore & PlayMarket; 6. F.A.Q; 7. Q&A.
2. Disclamer • This is just a sneak peek. We won’t cover Flutter for the web. Or the best practices with Flutter. • All the information you will hear is based on my experience with Flutter. Yours can be different; • Everything that wasn’t created by me (some benchmarks and additional info) has credits and links on the full articles.; • Some stuff worked in my case. Do not get upset if doesn’t work in yours.
3. Why I picked Flutter? I want to try something new
4. No pain no gain! • New language dart • Declarative UI • Everything is a widget (AnimatedOpacity, Padding, Baseline…)
5. Dart VS Swift https://medium.com/coding-with-flutter/dart-vs-swift-a-comparison-6491e945dc17
6. DART 1. Created by Google 2. Current version is Dart 2.4.0 3. First appeared on October 10, 2011 https://dart.dev
7. SWIFT 1. Developed by Apple 2. Stable release 5.0.2 3. First appeared on June 2, 2014; 5 years ago https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/
8. FEATURE DART SWIFT Optionals ❤ Tuples ❤ Mixins ❤ Extension ❤ Powerful enums ❤ Structs ❤ Futures ❤ Streams ❤
9. What is the same? Type inference Named parameters Unnamed parameters Single inheritance Multiple conformance Error handling Generics
10. FEATURE DART SWIFT Memory management GC ARC Concurency Isolates Dispatch queues Compiler JIT, AOT AOT
11. What I don’t like • const, final, • 100500 import… • Null safety? • Massive constructions • Pyramid of doom
12. Toooo massive constructions abstract class TrackedController <S extends StatefulWidget> extends State<S> with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin, RouteAware {
13. Pyramid of doom and ; , ({((){})}),
14. Positioned( top: position.top, left: position.left, child: Container( width: width, child: Card( child: Column( children: filteredSuggestions.map((T suggestion) { return Row(children: <Widget>[ Expanded( child: InkWell( child: itemBuilder(context, suggestion), onTap: () { setState(() { if (submitOnSuggestionTap) { final String newText = suggestion.toString(); textField.controller.text = newText; focusNode.unfocus(); itemSubmitted(suggestion); if (clearOnSubmit) { clear(); } } else { final String newText = suggestion.toString(); textField.controller.text = newText; textChanged(newText); } }); })) ]); }).toList(growable: false), ))))
16. What I like •No weak, strong, unowned •Abstract classes •Async/await •Lambdas •Class constructs
18. Future<void> createAndSendTask() async { final newCard = GloCard(boardId: boardId, columnId: columnId, name: _taskTitleText); final createdCard = await create(newCard, boardId); final attachment = await upload(boardId: boardId, cardId: createdCard.id, image: _image); createdCard.description = CardDescription(text: ‘[$_descriptionText](${attachment.url}).'); await updateCard(createdCard, widget.boardId); }
19. Lambda functions & Strings interpolation final List<String> list = <String>['apples', 'bananas', 'oranges']; list.forEach((String item) => print('$ {list.indexOf(item)}: $item'));
20. Class constructors class Person { Person({this.name, this.age, this.height}); final String name; final int age; final double height; } final Person created = Person(name: 'Bohdan', age: 24, height: 195);
21. React Native VS Flutter https://tinyurl.com/y3k98jvn
22. Flutter React Native Language Dart JavaScript Developers Goggle Facebook Initial Release 2017 2015 Native Performance Superior Good Documentation Precise, clear, and up- to-date Up-to-date and imprecise Who uses Alibaba, Reflectly, Tencent … Facebook, Instagram, Walmart, Wix …
23. Under the hood https://tinyurl.com/y57v6spb
24. My story with the app: from the idea to AppStore & PlayMarket
25. App demonstration
26. Apple review
27. Github issue
28. Did I make it?
29. Call with Apple
30. Where to learn • Flutter official cite - https://flutter.dev/ • List of communities - https://flutter.dev/community • Udemy recommendation 1 - https://www.udemy.com/dart-and-flutter-the- complete-developers-guide/ • Udemy recommendation 2 - https://www.udemy.com/learn-flutter-dart-to-build- ios-android-apps/ • List of interesting resources on GitHub - https://github.com/Solido/awesome- flutter • Telegram Chanel UA: https://t.me/artflutter
31. F.A.Q. • Bit code support? • Watch app support? • What I’ve got after the build? • Xcode project? Android Project?
32. @MacPaw Bohdan Mihiliev Q&A