Topic by arbuz 2021-01-06 10:43:02

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I know that native Android apps are developed with Java. My problem is that I don't want to switch from VSCode to Android Studio in order to develop Apps for Android. There are plenty reasons for it: debugging, familiour and same environment, so I found another thing called Flutter framework. This framework requires to know Googles programming language called Dart which is quite new. Do you guys have an experience with it? Or perhaps there is a way to make all the project with Java by using VSCode?
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Reply by ogomez92 2021-01-06 13:24:28

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I encourage you to go with Flutter. I don't have much experience with Dart, but I've heard it's really good.

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Reply by ashleygrobler04 2021-01-06 13:48:00

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As far as i know, you will need to use dart with flutter?

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Reply by Quin 2021-01-06 15:10:30

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@2 unless I'm not understanding what you're saying, Dart and Flutter are connected, so you *have* to use both.

Also, I've been looking at React as well, it looks interesting. The only thing you need to open Android Studio or Xcode for is to build--React generates .xcodeproj and such files.

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Reply by Phoenix009 2021-01-06 17:10:31

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Hi

No, you can write react native apps without opening XCode or Android Studio. If you use expo, you can just type a command in the terminal to get a build done.

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Reply by chrisnorman7 2021-01-06 18:58:12

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I never miss a chance to wax lyrical on Flutter and Dart.

I love them both. They'll be even better too when Dart sorts out null safety.

Your mileage will definitely vary mind you, but for normal apps, it's great, and the VS Code integration is dead tight as well.

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Reply by Quin 2021-01-06 19:57:55

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@5, interesting. What's that command, or do you know?

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Reply by Phoenix009 2021-01-07 08:05:29

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7, you can go and read the expo docs at
docs.expo.io

The gist is that you install the expo cli using npm install -g expo-cli, and then init an expo project, but the documentation will be able to explain it a hell of a lot better than I will.

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Reply by Dragonlee 2021-01-07 09:31:50

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also, you don't need android studio to build an android app, although it probably makes it much easier. if you just google "how to build android app without android studio" then you get a multitude of results. you can write your code with whatever editor you like and then build the app using command line.

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Reply by Phoenix009 2021-01-07 09:48:29

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Yeah
There is a tool called gradlew which can build the app if there is a keystore and appropriate config files. It works a bit better with the react-native-cli but can also work with most any programming language.

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