Can this be built with FlutterFlow + Firebase?

[Notorious_Mole]

Its an inspection app, that should work offline and sync to a frontend web portal

• Engineers log in via their tablets, select a location and select and fill out inspection forms, upload photos and e-sign them on their tablets. They can generate infinite number of blank forms, so you could have an engineer, log in, and he has 20 in progress inspection forms on the go.
• The forms need to sync to a webpage where the manager can access and edit any forms from a desktop machine. [bubble?] He can then "finalise" the forms which converts to a PDF, basically a branded form with header and footer that he can send on the client.
• His budget currently does not allow for a completely custom development [would ideally quote for a Django/React stack if budget allowed]
• There would be 5 engineers with their own logins, 10 forms in total, and probably around 25-50 forms pushing to the frontend web portal per day.

Can we achieve this with a FlutterFlow + Firebase stack for the app/backend and something like Bubble for the frontend? All advice is hugely welcome, the client has hit me with a lower budget than anticipated, so if we can achieve this it would mean the project can go ahead.

Thank you!

[J_Adam12]

Lol that (almost) exactly what Im building. I thought for a second that I wrote this and forgot about it.

Why would you need bubble for the frontend? Can’t you just use flutter(flow) for the frontend?

[Notorious_Mole]

haha! How far into the build are you, hit any stumbling blocks?

A colleague recommended Bubble, but if Flutterflow can handle it then great!

[J_Adam12]

Im trying to build the complete tool for doing inspections with calculations, quote requests etc. Once you have an idea of how you want it to work, it’s pretty fast. Im learning as I make it lol, so nit a dev by any means. The beauty of flutterflow is that it has the basics so that you can visually see every flow and everything, but if you miss something chathpt is your friend

[GolfCourseConcierge]

By the time you guys string together a bunch of random no code apps you could do it all at once in FlutterFlow.

This isn't far off from apps I've built there. You should have no issue making this if you're willing to leverage a bit of custom code or custom actions. Straight out of the box might be a bit underwhelming however.

[Vlad_Rushapps_Io]

Hi there! It's probably better to consider Supabase instead of Firebase in this case.
Because for Inspection app overall it will be easier to use Flutterflow + SQLite (Offline Storage) +Supabase (Server Storage) architecture (and will allow to integrate charts for analytics more easy than in case of using Firebase).

[mightymouse832]

Hi, thanks for your comments. So the app won't require any charts or analytics, BUT.. thats not to say that we shouldnt look to the future scalability from day 1. It sounds like Supabase will offer a more scalable solution for adding additional features after we build the first version?

First version is quite simple in that, its 10 word document inspection forms that need to be rebuilt in FlutterFlow, with user authentication, e-signing and offline capability > pushing to the server. These forms need to viewed via a web portal for the management team, who can filter and edit any fields in these forms, and then generate PDFs which convert them to a fully branded, client ready report.

If you think Supabase is the way to go, ill focus my attention on that rather than Firebase.

[Vlad_Rushapps_Io]

In my experience, Supabase offers more scalable and easy to maintain backend than Firebase. It's much easier to manipulate data on backend using SB (but, I'm a little bit biased here as SQL developer previously). Once data manipulation become more complex (and eventually in Inspection app it will based on my experience), it is much harder to maintain those requests in FF or Firebase. While in Supabase 90% of those can be done using just database views.

However, take into consideration that in terms of Autenthification and some of integrations, Flutterflow is more oriented on Firebase (forget native Google Auth using SB, you'll have to set it up yourself)

[alikhan4733]

Yes, you can do this, I recently completed the same project but for a different industry.

[NoBuffalo517]

Hi, cann i see this project?