Is it worth learning Flutter in 2024? 

Gracias por verlo!

If there are a lot of Flutter jobs why don't you go and learn Flutter?

@@DavidSerranoIO because i already learned java learning native android is faster than learning flutter cuze i dont know dart

I think yes, as time goes by and Flutter becomes more and more mature, I think it will little by little become another option with notable advantages over React Native.

How did you get a job as a junior flutter dev with no experience?

@@tasoscat4295 The job requirements were problem-solving skills, communication skills, knowledge about the framework, and also English. This is the recipe to get along with any new tool I guess. Yes, I didn't have experience working with Flutter but I read a lot about it. Strong basics matter more than experience for a junior level role sometimes! I got picked out of 30+ applicants some of whom had prior experience with flutter!

My advice is that if you like Flutter, don't hesitate to continue with it. That doesn't stop you from learning other technologies. On the other hand, regarding decisions about which technology to learn, don't worry so much. It's not uncommon to see programmers change their tech stack mid-career. What matters most are the principles, the fundamentals, rather than the technological detail. If you learn the fundamentals well, they will serve you well and will allow you to write quality code in any language or environment.

My observation of the market is that there are just few opportunities in Flutter in EU... For business, career, earning money, etc. Flutter does not seem to be the right choice. Though it is a great technology, big or medium businesses seem to ignore it completely.

I think that currently RN is more widespread and there are more jobs, although perhaps this will change in the long term.

I don't know React Native, but for me the mere fact of working with Dart instead of javascript is enough. Furthermore, Flutter's performance is superior.

Thanks!

just learn react then reactnativ its a better choice

@@ahmed_5g Learning react rn 🙂

Go for web development 😉, and when you'll get yourself a descent machine you can easily transfer your skills.

@@ravi2048 Might just do it! 😃

There are flutter web IDEs where you can run emulators as well

Hey, i was wondering the same, so i joined quite a number of freelance groups in telegram and discord, and most of the clients are demanding flutter apps as they are cross platform. So i genuinely think flutter is booming.

@@luciferaswin that's sounds great thank you for your reply

@@MirAppDev developers for developers 😄

​@@luciferaswinheyyy but most of them are saying there is no scope for flutter

@@nevilpaul8519 i said in the context of india, here flutter jobs are booming, not sure about other countries. But hey you gotta skill up for the latest trends

I would say that if it motivates you enough, yes. It doesn't hurt to learn other technologies either.

No idea, I don't specialize in python.

@DavidSerranoIO it'd flutter wrapped in python. But it's risky since it actually relies on a strong flutter community.

Flet using flutter SDK, so learn flutter

@user-rh1sw6ji6t I'm time-constrained and need to convert my web-app that's in production into an actual app, hence my desire to write cross-platform as lazily as possible. Is Flutterflow, the low-code product, a good way of jumpstarting a Flutter project? Heck, can I get away with writing no Flutter code? Flet is attractive coz it's Python, something I've battle-tested.

That is not the way to work with either Dart or Flutter. In Flutter, widgets are not extended, they are composed. If you want to give special features to a widget, then what you have to do is create another widget that contains it and gives it those features.

@@DavidSerranoIO Sounds like you meant to say the word extends in Dart is compose? TextField extends StatefulWidget (class TextField extends StatefulWidget). All I need was to be able to access a variable in the class but that is impossible to do so without bunch of workarounds, because Flutter declares everything final.

@@believeornot12 No, I didn't mean that. The issue is, why would you want to access a variable in a widget? Therein lies the problem, what you describe will never be necessary because the objective of widgets is not to be used as regular classes, but as widgets. What is the final objective you want to achieve?

@@DavidSerranoIOOk, I didn't want to but it forced me to. Here is a practical example. I want to create a TextField that takes user input and also use the same field to put internally calculated value when needed. So, to do that, I need to be able to retrieve the value and set the value. Now, for retrieving the value you will have to create a textedittingcontroller externally (EXTERNALLY) and pass it into the constructor. So, if you have lots of TextField to show then you have lots of external controllers. To simplify it you will need to create a class extending the widget (instead of the expected TextField, which is also a widget) and declare a controller and return a textfield with it. So all of that work is just to be able to retrieve the value. Now the part where you need to push the value into the textfield. You can't just change the value in the controller. It has to be inside the widget. So if you have a non widget class doing some background calculation and update the value from there, it won't work. Anyway, Flutter is NOT a good architecture. If I need to use a bad architecture, I may as well use react native. At least it gives some freedom.

@@believeornot12 The problem is that you are using widgets for everything, and that is not their goal. They are visual components, they take an input (in parameter form) and create a visual representation in the interface. They are not utility classes, nor should they store business logic, or any other calculations beyond what is necessary to create that same visual representation. In your case, you should correctly delimit the layers of your application, and move all that business logic to the relevant classes, and then have your visual part pristine and free of any logic not necessary for the interface.

Because the code and tools I show are updated as of 2024. While an old video can also help you learn, it is always better to watch a video where the person teaching does so with the latest software versions available to avoid confusion.

Why?