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Discussion on: Publish my first App, the worst Nightmare I never had.

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Mustafa Anas

Certainly sounds like hell.
Are you going to try React Native or Flutter soon? I'd like to hear your comparison about both.

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Alejandro Augusto Gomez Rodriguez

I have tried both, but in a minimal scale. React Native is very easy to jump to it, but you need to make your own UI components and elements first to avoid large pile of line codes. Flutter is very interested but is really hard to make a UI from it, you really need to be clear how each widget work and also how to modify them. It means that in both cases you really need a lot of practice.

I'm evaluating to build my second app on Flutter or Kotlin, it could be wonderful to work it with Flutter.

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Mustafa Anas

I built a relatively complex app with Flutter including real time data updating, I think Flutter did just fine. Worth mentioning that I had zero experience doing mobile dev or Dart. I was satisfied with the outcome but I just really disliked Dart :/.
As for the UI, I think you can find a variety of cool ready templates and widgets. More of Flutter than RN.