Hello dear community! I have a question regarding Compose, Firestore and Flutter. I don't mind opini...

# compose

[Najib Ghadri]

Hello dear community! I have a question regarding Compose, Firestore and Flutter. I don't mind opinionated answers, even though I know you don't like them, however I have been planning on my app for quite some time and I need help in taking the best decision. (I have read previous questions here regarding this, but I thought I need to ask.)

I will be starting building an e-commerce-like app myself, and I plan a release for not earlier than next year March/April. I've been following the progress in Flutter for a year now and I leaned back to go back to native Android for the first release. I also knew about jetpack and compose, and saw that it's not production ready yet. I like the development efficiency of both Jetpack compose and Flutter, but both are not production ready compose being less. However I feel like Compose could be supported more fundamentally in the long run, since it is the native platform. Another thing is, I have been looking around how to use Firestore with Compose, but couldn't find anything, is this integration possible currently?

Considering that I will use Firebase services, the current state of compose, my release date (and if you have any familiarity with Flutter) what is your opinionated suggestion, which platform should I/ I shouldn't start building on? Android Kotlin native, Jetpack compose, Flutter? Thank you.

[Grigorii Yurkov]

Firebase should not influence your decision (if we are choosing between Android Kotlin native and Compose) because it does not affect UI

[Grigorii Yurkov]

I think, you should be willing to spend much more time if you chose compose because of experience and documentation lack.

[Ash]

Looking long term looks like Koltin Multiplatform with Compose / SwiftUI so that is what we are building today ...
https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-android-and-ios-studio-apps-kotlin-multiplatform-d6d4d8d25d23

[Najib Ghadri]

Okay, then if I ask it this way: Should I use Flutter or Compose if I want a production-ready app for early next year? 🙂 I like Compose a lot more! But so what do you think?

[Najib Ghadri]

Like okay, maybe I need to spend more time now with Compose, but the way I looked at it it's pretty usable. I come from react js, flutter, android native, so I am not scared. But the question is, is it possible to build a production app in it?

[Najib Ghadri]

Suppose I will need to use Firebase SDK, Google maps, incoming /outgoing intents (I guess this is navigation) , state management, camera and gallery usage, background notifications, and i18n ie translations. I don't need nothing too fancy like animations, or extra native functions.

[Najib Ghadri]

Thank you in advance @channel 💙🧡💙