Introduction

Flutter is a UI toolkit (made by Google) for building natively compiled Android, iOS, web and desktop apps while using a single codebase.

It’s used and developed in dart and requires XCode (an aPpLe computer… -,-) and Android Studio as well as according SDKs.

Motivation

As a web developer I am interested in mobile usage of websites as well as webapps and I want to go some steps further and develop native apps for the currently dominating operating systems Android and iOS.

Lúcio, a character from Overwatch

has this skill where he speeds himself and everyone around him up, Google AMP tries to do this as well.

But while the speed goes up, there are some down sides as well.

AMP aims for mobile websites where lower speeds and bandwidths makes websites feel slow which raises the website’s bounce rate.

While there are certain restrictions to AMP, like

• no JavaScript (which might be confusing at first)
• stylings in the page’s head or inline
• no more than 50kB of styling

it also introduces some other problems to the (new) battlefield of “my customer is able to measure my website’s speed, halp”.