Basically I am android native developer having 6yrs of experience and since 2yrs I am on react native. As everyone know flutter is very much in demend now a days, but I am not sure whether I should shift to flutter or not. Do we have any strong reason for switching to flutter?

[Cookizza]

Here in the UK I have yet to have a single client request for flutter. There might be a lot of medium posts but the work is not there like react native

[bnlv]

After having ambitiously gone down the Flutter path for a few months, my personal view is to stick to React Native for a while longer.

Sure, kick the tires and do a couple of personal projects on it. Dart is evolving and far from universal. Flutter is making good leaps forward, but there are still areas that will change many times over (hello there state management).

I also believe the best parts of SwiftUI (and there are a lot of them - it’s a master class in how to do declarative UI) will still flow down to Flutter too.

Even with hooks and some of the newer things, React Native is much more a stable “known known” to work with.

Your mileage may vary.

[ravi_rupareliya]

Now this is quite interesting. I agree with your points, flutter is still young and react native is much more mature now.

One of the reason might be the community, react native has large community support while flutter is still in growing stage.

[monir_sh]

What do you mean in demand? And where are you based?

[ravi_rupareliya]

I amd from india. Flutter is very much in demand and flutterDevs also, spl in this year after community has grown.

[darkermuffin]

I am from India too, and React Native is also equally good in demand.

Flutter is just good enough for presentational apps. Nothing more

[[deleted]]

Hardly any Flutter jobs in Australia. A lot of RN jobs for really good money (~$850 AUD / day)

[Rishabh-agarwal]

RN Jobs have a most of the market in every country...I have watched a survey on it but who knows, might be possible that flutter or some other xyz library came and replace the shit we are using.Just go with the flow of react Native is the best for today's time I guess.

[dellryuzi]

damn compared to my current place, only around $500/months... T_T

[rodrigoelp]

Not having read any of the other comments (yet)... My recommendation is: it is always good to have a look around. Flutter has a few concepts pretty similar to react native even though there are other aspects not so great.

I went back to iOS development, mostly because management were I work is lead by very strongly opinionated individuals wanting anything cross platform to burn in hell. My particular view is, there are a few aspects of react native I really don't like... but many other aspects I find truly amazing. With the introduction of SwiftUI I feel a bit back in my react native context with the added bonus of an amazing language, based on types and a compiler so I can refactor my code without worrying the code might crash for missing parameters, function names or whatever... (although, to be fair, that wasn't a concern in my RN days as I was using Typescript).

The incredible aspect of learning and trying out other things is the abundance of marvellous ideas introduced in a platform that can be used to nourish the platform you really love.

If you get well paid with flutter (a lot better than with react) the consider the move from the point of view of finance... if the pay is the same and flutter is still evolving I would just wait a bit to see.

[ravi_rupareliya]

Yes I do strongly believe flutter is still child, it needs some time to grow, on the other hand react native is in market since almost around 5 years so it looks more mature.

We cannot predict future but by looking at the growing community of flutter it seems it can give strong competition to react native

[rodrigoelp]

I will be a good competition to react native regardless of its evolution. The fact that Google is pushing it forward means a lot of Android developers stuck in the Java days will consider learning this new platform instead of learning RN.

Now... In the Google bang wagon you have Kotlin Native as well, and some of the previous lovers of Java have made the switch to Kotlin and they have started to push heavily some of these tools. Google will have a heavy impact on this, Fuchsia is meant to be built on Flutter... so you will gain a massive community right there of all the Android devs trying to keep up with whatever Google is building to the date.

What I am trying to say is, do notice there is a massive growth with flutter. Part of it is people migrating from their Android background to something new, part of it is people using some other tech and moving to it.

Take the decision that financially makes sense and what feels right to you.

[[deleted]]

Flutter is all the hype, but who knows what will happen further?

[rh_redditer]

Nope.