Flutter iOS vs Android - one of the other UI?

[paul curtis]

I'm reviewing the docs, playing around a bit and think i know the answer to this but would like confirmation.

I believe if i want to mimic an iOS style UI then there are the cupertino widgets? But then an android version would be the same.

There's no targeted delivery with a unified design structure looking like iOS on iPhones and Android on android devices is there?

So if i wanted an app that looked native on both sides then i basically need two apps?

Is that right?

thanks

Paul

[Frank Harper]

You can customize the UIs based on platform as much as you want. From identical, to completely different for iOS and Android.

If you use the material design widgets, some of them do adjust based on which platform they're runnin their look and feelg on. For example the overflow menu looks different. The scrolling looks different, etc.

Even if you go 100% custom UI for each platform you can still share significant amount of code: the business logic, the data later etc.

[paul curtis]

Yes, so if we start with a MaterialApp then everything will be Material. To start an app that looks like iOS i have to use different containers and widgets.

But that also means that i basically would need separate flutter projects if i wanted iOS looking AND Android looking apps because i don't *think* there is any way to basically target different frameworks from one flutter app? Sure some of the classes would be the same but the UIs would be different.

Then we're back to Xamarin and managing two UIs with shared logic

Is that right, or have I missed something!?

thanks!

Paul

[Seth Ladd]

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FWIW I found this article that talks about a strategy for writing UIs that are different on iOS and Android: https://medium.com/flutter-io/do-flutter-apps-dream-of-platform-aware-widgets-7d7ed7b4624d

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[Ian Hickson]

Our long-term goal is to have the material widgets automatically defer to the cupertino widgets when the ThemeData.platform is set appropriately. We haven't finished implementing this yet (we're still just in beta!), but this is indeed our design; that's why, for example, the cupertino library doesn't depend on the material library -- it allows the material library to depend on cupertino without a dependency loop. We've actually already done this for one widget that I can think of, the MaterialPageRoute -- it knows how to defer to CupertinoPageRoute on iOS.

We're making sure we have the cupertino widgets fleshed out before we start setting up the material widgets to defer to them.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:11 PM paul curtis <pa...@inventome.com> wrote:

That's a great link, thank you.

I do wonder why was flutter not designed ground up to work like this?

cheers

Paul

On Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 3:54:11 PM UTC, Seth Ladd wrote:

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FWIW I found this article that talks about a strategy for writing UIs that are different on iOS and Android: https://medium.com/flutter-io/do-flutter-apps-dream-of-platform-aware-widgets-7d7ed7b4624d

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Hi Ian,

this is amazing news! Coming from Xamarin forms I still have the topic of platform specific look in the back of my head. Now hearing that this will soon be possible too is just amazing!

Best

Thomas 

 

[Paul Curtis]

Hi Ian,

That's some fantastic news, exactly what i want to hear.

Is there any chance of some vague timeline?

Also on a slight side note, has anyone got a flutter app running on an AppleTV?

thanks

Paul

[Ian Hickson]

Only the vaguest of timelines; it's probably something we'll do in the next year-ish? But we can't guarantee that at all. It could be as soon as in 3 or 4 months, or it could be later.

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This is great news, this will make Flutter ever more awesome, looking forward to it.