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Will Flutter Die The Same Way React Native Did

Fred Grott
5 min readJan 9, 2022

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React Native died sometime ago. And its demise could happen to Flutter as the same signs are present.

Why React Native Died

React died as there was one major UX and Architecture pattern that had to be implemented to be cross-platform and UX compliant on the Android platform that was not maintained by the Facebook React Native SDK team.

And the slowness of the Facebook React Native SDK team to integrate those solution ideas into the React Native SDK.

In fact, in general, app dev studios that use React Native generally refuse to include developing the android app in the same dev studio quote package as the iOS app due to this mess.

It is not that a separate plugin or package was created to make things right on Android for React Native developers. It’s that the Facebook React Native SDK team abandoned that package as far as supporting it.

The Current Mess

We have UX Pattern Components not implemented in the Flutter SDK, including:

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