On Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 12:31 PM Nathan Fisher <nfis...@junctionbox.ca> wrote:
> Oh that’s awesome! I didn’t realise they were supporting desktop now. It > sounded like it was abandoned in a push to focus on the mobile experience. > On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Ged Wed <ged...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I used QT for 6 months and Flutter is way ahead. >> QT has a huge licensing issue. You can only use QT and not pay a yearly >> fee of 3 k if you provide the ability for end users to recompile your app >> against QT. >> Also it's got a lot of rough edges once you get into the 80/20 situation >> on real world apps. >> It takes 20% of your time to get 80% of your app done, and 80% of your >> time to get the last 20% of your app done. >> Flutters plug-in system avoids you getting cornered in the 80/20 >> situation. >> >> I started to do an integration of botldb and some other golang code but >> am half way through. From what I can see there are no roadblocks. There is >> one issue with APK packing but I think it just need a script to fix it. >> I have not published on GitHub yet because it's not done but will..gedw99 >> is my GitHub org >> >> There is a repo there called CI where I am also getting continuous build >> going for flutter with golang for iOS and Android. >> I intend to extend it for all Desktops too. >> >> https://github.com/gedw99/ci >> > I didn't know flutter was also targeting desktops. I've got many years of Qt experience on desktops, so teaching for a mobile Qt solution felt like a natural first choice. But it is a real motivation to look at flutter if I can use it in the desktop space as well. >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 10:16 PM Justin Israel <justinisr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 9:28 AM Ged Wed <ged...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I am starting to develop an app using flutter and golang. >>>> >>>> Flutter is the dumb GUI and everything else is written in golang. >>>> >>>> It is reasonably easy to compile your golang code using gomobile and >>>> then bind to flutter using the Method Channel API that flutter provides. >>>> >>>> Is anyone interested in this ? >>>> >>> >>> I was just recently considering getting some mobile dev practice in, and >>> was thinking whether to use a flutter approach or something with Qt and >>> gomobile. I would be very interested in reading a write up of your >>> experience getting started with Flutter + gomobile >>> >>> >>>> Flutter now runs on all desktops and mobiles officially. The desktop >>>> version was announced 2 weeks ago and already Linux and macOS works, with >>>> Windows probably being a few weeks away from what I guesstimate. >>>> >>>> The cool thing about this is that you get a very well supported and >>>> high performance GUI engine for Forms and 2D. 3D is still not provided by >>>> has been stated by the team to be looked at later. >>>> >>>> Anyway I hope to spark some interest in this and I will be putting up >>>> some demo code on my git hub repo and hope others are interested enough to >>>> also give it a try and work through it. >>>> >>>> >>>> How to write a plug-in: >>>> >>>> https://flutter.io/platform-channels/ >>>> >>>> Plugins already available : >>>> >>>> https://pub.dartlang.org/flutter/packages >>>> >>>> Printing. >>>> They have not yet officially committed to how cross platform out put to >>>> PDF and XPS ( for windows ) will be supported. >>>> Under the covers Flutter is using the same engine that Google Chrome >>>> browser uses; called Skia. >>>> >>>> Skia has an API for printing web pages and it uses pdfium under the >>>> hood. >>>> It seams logical that the Flutter team will also start using this >>>> method to provide built in PDF output and even print spooling but from what >>>> I can see it's not resolved yet. >>>> >>>> All other things like touch, keyboard, sound, gestures etc are all >>>> built into Flutter because it's built into Skia. >>>> >>>> Would be great to hear if there is a strong interest in this and to >>>> discuss . >>> >>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "golang-nuts" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > - sent from my mobile > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
