I’ve been messing around with Flutter, Google’s SDK for building native apps for both Android and iOS, recently. It’s been two weeks actually, and I’ve found myself captivated by how they’ve made it quite easy to build native and reactive UIs fast, which includes the usual validation and interactivity. That’s really awesome, especially for someone like me who’s never written any native mobile app before.

There’s still many things to learn though before I can confidently call myself a mobile app programmer – state management, databases, animation, APIs, to name a few. After feeling productive with the user interface, I’ll most probably try to tackle all of those in the coming months. For now I’ll keep practicing with our current project at work, will eventually share it with the team, then let them decide what they want to do with it.

In the immediate future I’ll likely write some tools on the mobile platform, for my own use or for others to try.