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That is an incredible amount of work. You can see the effort required by google to make Flutter do this - plus it has the benefit of the dart language being simultaneously engineered for the task. Google has spent millions and put their top engineers on the problem and it looks to me to be an uphill struggle. Flutter has 8k open issues and 32k closed issues.


Namecheap I found to be pretty good. I only need basic features so I moved to a cheaper (in Canada) registrar - porkbun and they have been totally fine.


It would be simpler to have something like a google drive / dropbox where you allow access to store things on there to specific apps. Then you allow the data to be retrieved by another app. If the storing app does an export (say in csv format) each time you make changes then the data will always be available for another app to use. I think requiring an app to use a specific external database probably wont work because app developers have specific needs for each app, perhaps xml or key-value pairs etc. The app is then relying on a third party to provide the performance / latency they need. If a universal database could be chosen I would choose sqlite since that is available on phones.


Yeap, but storing data in things like dropbox/drive/s3 would require the app to have some sort of indexing in place (I'm thinking about ElasticSearch), as querying on these storages would perform really bad I think.


For the last 7 years I have had a callcentric account. I added telemarketer block to my calls, then callers have to press a number to get through to you which eliminates robocalls. You can assign friends into buckets which get different treatment such as dialing your cell number.


As an alternative to learning Kotlin on Android, you can spend the time learning flutter. Then you get concise code which works on Android and IOS now and on other platforms in the future - including desktops.


And it's made by Google, unsurprinsingly.

A big plus for Kotlin is that being a jetbrains project, it has top of the line intellij tooling support right at release date.


If it's made by Google, shouldn't we avoid it as it's likely to be discontinued in a few months?


About half of all tech on the internet today originated by google open sourcing it. Your and other google hate does not take into account the fact that many things that exist on the internet and tech is because of google I cant believe you guys are still crying about reader. Personally I think it was bad move on their part but I really don't get all the crying you guys do for something that shutdown 5 year ago.


Flutter will be official development platform for Google Fuchsia, their next big OS*. Google is supporting Android and iOS with flutter So that they can have plenty of apps available already when Fuchsia is launched.

With the big investment they are doing in Fuchsia it seem unlikely they will abandon it soon.


Big investment? Their next big os?

Please give us some sources, as to me it's just a project a team there is developing, and so far it can just as well be an experiment with no future.


Flutter's dev tools are built on intelliJ.


Except Dart is a worse language than Kotlin.


I am just asking here and not contradicting, but then isn't React Native too an alternative to learning Kotlin?


Can you point to any apps in the App Store using flutter ? Would be nice to see some real work examples in action.


Flutter is definitely on my watchlist but i’m still waiting for them to solve the map and videoplayer issues to bet my future on it.


I found all the "new" calls rather clunky, does Flutter has something like hyperscript-helpers or JSX?


There's a discussion on github about jsx-alike syntax on Flutter (https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/11609), and "new" keyword will be optional in Dart 2.0.


ah, the optional new should be enough I think.


You can try Pi-Hole which stops the ad and tracking DNS requests from getting through.


These guys have given you excellent market information. The piece of your project with value is the mls integration you are about to write. I think you should continue working on the open source part and keep the mls plugin closed source and sell the plugin for the mls integration to the realtors. imo this plugin will be worth more than $10k and the guys contacting you know that.


There is only 1 reason I stopped using Firefox completely. I cannot search with Google in the search bar. (This is in Linux Mint). I use search a lot and basically all the search engines on offer are sub-par. I use Chromium and Opera also, and have them all running, but I wont touch Firefox.


>I cannot search with Google in the search bar. (This is in Linux Mint)

It's certainly possible, it's one of the first tweaks I make on a fresh install. You may have to add a search provider, or change the default, but it's quite easy.

The only thing I can think of is that the bundled FF is old or is a fork that for some reason is not including that ability to do so in your case... I tend to use nightly whenever possible, so I don't remember what the default is or how old it is.


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