Samuel
@samuel.fm
wolt app is straight up hilarious. feels like a powerpoint presentation made by someone who just discovered slide transitions, and honestly I respect that
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Samuel
correction: uikit is the number of framework for making nauseating and vertigo-inducing apps
Samuel@samuel.fm· 6 Apr 2025
huh I might be wrong then! it’s definitely not RN (straight up not possible to do those dumb transitions yet), but seems like you might be right that it’s just their merchant app that’s flutter. its just a native iOS app - sorry for the flutter slander then!!
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Eli Mallon
nah you’re on to something, when i got Rappi for ordering food in colombia it was like “why is everything in the app… moving around like this…” it was flutter, it’s always flutter
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Cornelius Mark
Oh right. I was wrong. Flutter uses the Impeller engine in favour of the old Skia engine. Both use Metal on iOS and Vulkan on Android with a hardware abstraction layer in between. To create a universal API for the Impeller engine.
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Samuel
yep, a completely custom renderer (which is how it’s crossplatform). different to React Native, which instead uses native platform views on each platform (and thus can leverage uikit)
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Gil
the main app is RN though, they only used flutter in their "for restaurants" app
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Samuel
huh I might be wrong then! it’s definitely not RN (straight up not possible to do those dumb transitions yet), but seems like you might be right that it’s just their merchant app that’s flutter. its just a native iOS app - sorry for the flutter slander then!!
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Samuel
(I saw wolt on the flutter website and assumed it was the customer app, cause it doesn’t feel like a native one at all)
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Gil
huh, i remember seeing some RN roles open a while back, interesting that they just pivoted to native then
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Samuel
like I gotta respect the execution, it’s a super well polished app. but also wtf were they thinking
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Archived fry69
Well they could also have put menus on the walls of a virtual dungeon and make you crawl corridors. "Hey, you there! Follow me through this secret passage for 10% off your next order."
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v buckenham
just one of the many things that can be accomplished if you're not beholden to contorting your app to the platform standards (okay I'm not a fan of this effect either, I admit it!)
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Samuel
heh yeah I mean the app made me respect flutter a whole bunch more in terms of making fluid and well-polished experiences. but there’s no fixing bad taste lmao
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Houssam Elbadissi ❄️
Compose also makes animation/transition APIs so simple that making crazy stuff isn't out of reach, but somehow most developers seem to stay sane... a little too sane sometimes given the power they have (i blame Material UI for that, people are lazy and just use the defaults)
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Houssam Elbadissi ❄️
Regardless of framework, what frustrates me most is seeing an app maxxing on crazy transitions users don't need, but forget or break basic animations that we'd expect from a fluid responsive UI, or just straight up shitty UX
Harry
Leaving Copenhagen today and will be looking down wistfully at the wolt app like a ww2 soldier with photos of the woman he left behind
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