Sharing some testing we did on Flutter

[nahuel-soldevilla]

We received some interest from our clients using Field-Book about the possibility to use it on iOS devices, so we started exploring some options, we know that there has been some efforts in this regard in the past, like Breeding-Insight's Field-Book-iOS app, and that flutter has been discussed too.

I wanted to share in this opportunity some exploration I did on flutter, specifically a workflow called add-to-app (https://docs.flutter.dev/add-to-app), a feature to include flutter as a "module" into an existing app, to either enhance it or migrate it "progressively".

If you are interested, you can check all the details, including code and some screenshots here: IntegratedBreedingPlatform#1
The prototype is just an exploration for the moment, with some testing on existing functionality, like activities, barcode scanner and sqlite, with an ios build tested on codemagic env.

If anyone knows any other project or current development in this area, or any comment/feedback in regard to this, just let us know, we will greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for this amazing tool!

cc @trife @chaneylc @timparsons @SCYarnes @BrapiCoordinatorSelby @mcrimi

[trife]

@nahuel-soldevilla This is really cool! We've been hesitant to work with a cross platform framework since it would require such a huge time investment. When we finally do have the resources to pursue this, I think that we're more likely to explore KMP/Compose given how much of the code base is already Kotlin-based.

[nahuel-soldevilla]

@trife Thanks for the feedback! I agree, this is quite a Task, I've learned to appreciate during this brief experiment the enormous amount of functionality that Field-Book provides. Happy to hear about KMP/Compose, we still have some allocated time for this so I might give it a try if no one else is working on that.

[trife]

It's something we're steering toward but none of us are actively working on. If you want to explore what it will take to fully transition to KMP/Compose that would be awesome!