Quick Review of Futter Flow - 1
knight • 9 Mar 2022 •
I share the two no-code tools that I plan to put in my stacks recently, Futter Flow and Draftbit. I m still building and selling components on Adalo, but for mobile app requests, I m planning to divert over to those two tools slowly.
I did a quick run on FutterFlow that day, and some of the things that impress me are how the layout work; if you go through the tutorials, you will pick up how to use the column + rows + flex to structure your layout, I feel that it can generate a more precise design compare to using drag and drop layout builder.
Let me share more when I have more fun with it. So far, the first impression is pretty good!
Comments
@clark agreed, I see they release features every month! mind to share the example of complex interactions need to do it locally?
The main issue I ran into was that I couldn’t implement just a time selector - at the time they only offered date + time. I tried using a custom function for it, but the Flutter package that is needed for a time selector wasn’t available. Since ejecting, I’ve done some other things that I don’t think I could have done in FF like a full calendar implementation.
Also a small warning - if you use API connections and you sync with GitHub, whatever security mechanism you are using, like an API key for example, will be stored in GitHub in plain text. There was not a way to get around that. The best I could do was just make sure the repo was private.
since Github provide private repo for free, that shouldn’t be a big problem. thanks for the reply!
I started building an app on FlutterFlow and I really like it for what it is, but I found when I needed to build any kind of complex interactions I had to basically “eject” and build the rest of it locally. That said, it was great to get started and have a good looking user interface! I also think the FF team adds features regularly so maybe the limitations I faced are no longer an issue.