Do you know of any project that is trying to use Flutter wit

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Do you know of any project that is trying to use Flutter with Kotlin instead of Dart

ghedeon · Answer

Probably not possible not a priority for the Flutter team What you can do instead is to abstract as much as possible into kotlin native and use it from dart OLX guys presented a small PoC recently that does that

Jeremy · Answer

one app supporting 2 platforms ios+android and 2 multiplatform libs kotlin native+flutter and 3 languages swift kotlin dart sounds like a nightmare scream

Drew · Answer

Couldn t Kotlin MPP theoretically be developed to also target the Dart VM along with the other targets

Jeremy · Answer

I m not an expert but from attending meetups and talking to ppl working w Flutter they said Dart and Flutter is like Ruby on Rails In particular the platform creates a lot of small temp objects and the vm is specifically tuned to handle these scenarios If any dart experts avail please retort me

Jeremy · Answer

so its compiler vm and tooling

Jeremy · Answer

everyone s mileage may vary but thats a few too many levels of abstraction for me to avoid using swift

Jeremy · Answer

kn is a better compromise imo

Drew · Answer

Kn is great but I did read a good point made by someone which is that business logic is 20 30 of code while UI code is the rest

Drew · Answer

If that s true not sure and depends on app obviously then some shared UI definition via Kotlin however that happens would be great

Jeremy · Answer

depends on app I ve worked on apps where 90 + was business logic and others where reverse

Jeremy · Answer

kn is possible to share presenters networking serialization persistence business logic if those are big parts of app theres opportunity for a lot of common logic

Drew · Answer

I d be curious to see how far one could push the boundary into common MPP Thus far my thought is having domain business logic all the way to Presenter viewmodel with view interface all in Kotlin

Jeremy · Answer

I ve been exploring that question myself I think many others are as well As usual it probably depends

Drew · Answer

Indeed I would think you could even abstract navigation between screens into Kotlin with just having implementations for how to actually render that screen transition i e startActivity in platform code

Jeremy · Answer

Yes I ve been working on some POC My lacking iOS Swift knowledge is holding me back though disappointed

ghedeon · Answer

yeah iiric the luxury of shipping your own VM with the app allows you to have such awesome things as Hot Reload on flutter where on Android let s not talk about Instant Run Kotlin transpiling into Dart is a valid question tho but I m not informed enough on this subject

Jeremy · Answer

I don t know enough either The question came up at a meetup I was at and the vm gc was response but the tooling ecosystem would be by far my biggest concern

itnoles · Answer

Reason they do Dart for Hot Reload

Foso · Answer

I was hoping someone is working on a Kotlin to Dart transpiler

gildor · Answer

I m pretty sure nobody working on a Kotlin to Dart transpiler