Right, but, nobody uses it. So what's the point for Google?

doodlesdev 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've made a huge critic towards Flutter in another comment of mine, but adoption isn't it: the biggest bank in Brazil, with 135 million clients, is a digital bank whose sole interface is their Flutter app. They are different regarding tech choices (they use Clojure on the backend too), but I think it's a huge testament of how far along Flutter adoption has come.

Also, Google dogfoods it quite a bit.

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Cyph0n 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Interesting, so Nubank is a heavy Flutter user?

	▲	wiseowise 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://building.nubank.com/scaling-with-flutter/ https://flutter.dev/showcase/nubank

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owebmaster 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nubank also uses clojure and adoption is still a big issue.

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filleduchaos 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Third-party analysis (https://appfigures.com/top-sdks/development/all) has Flutter used in 16% of iOS apps and 24% of Android apps (free)

Archive link: https://archive.is/IIUaj

I really don't understand how/why people deny reality so hard when it comes to Flutter. Reminds me a bit of years ago when people were still scoffing at the idea of anyone actually adopting JavaScript to write web servers with while Node.js was very obviously eating up the market.

	▲	pjmlp 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It eats the market indeed, and also presents business opportunities for folks like myself, jumping in writing C++ addons, or completely replacing it with Java, .NET, Go, Rust,....

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gkhartman 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is that true though? I'm reading HN on an app built using Flutter. I had no idea until recently, so I would assume more apps could use it without my knowledge.

I understand it's limitations vs native apps, but there's quite a few cases where it really doesn't matter.

The biggest one for me is always the fear it will be abandoned. Pretty much goes for any cross platform app framework though.

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vips7L 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The creator of flutter was on here saying that 1/3 of all apps on the App Store use it. That seems to be a lot more than “nobody”.

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owebmaster 9 hours ago | parent [-]

The creator of flutter lied then. That's not true.

	▲	vips7L 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How do you know? Why are we inclined to believe you over him?

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Barrin92 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>but, nobody uses it.

I used to work at ByteDance and they alone employed I think more than 800 Flutter Devs. Douyin uses Flutter (the Chinese version of TikTok), Grab and Ebay use it, Alibaba and Baidu did too. Toyota and Volkswagen I think both use Flutter. Nubank I think is also a flutter app and they alone have like one hundred million some users.

With the popularity in the Chinese ecosystem alone there's gotta be a billion plus people using flutter.

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monocasa 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Google AdSense uses it.

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davidkuennen 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Been using it for six years with fairly high success: https://stockevents.app

	▲	liquid153 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
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