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Flutter Inception: A Free Shorebird Alternative
There is an intimacy between web developers and their users that native app developers are jealous of. Within minutes of finding and diagnosing a software bug, web developers can publish
a fix that all of their users will see. There is no laborious back-and-forth with a third-party app store or a 4-day wait for an simple app review. The web developer builds their new application and sends it to the masses.
Native app developers are not so lucky. App review times on the Google Play and Apple App stores are infamously unpredictable and long, delaying what could have otherwise been immediate fixes for an indeterminate amount of time. This slow but necessary step can ultimately lead to poor
reviews, lost users, and developer frustration.
Flutter developers in particular are negatively impacted by these review process because they typically aim to publish their apps on all platforms. Every time they are ready to release an update, they must ask themselves, “Am I ready for two app reviews?”. Many other cross-platform developers face the same soul-crushing processes but in this article, I want to
present a potential solution for the Flutter crowd.
