Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI Compared to Flutter

Comparisons based on my experience

Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI, Competing Against Flutter

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Do you love using Flutter because of its declarative way to construct UI? You might want to try out Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI.

A long time ago, I tried imperative way to construct UI in Android’s XML based UI framework kit and Apple’s UIKit. It took me a long time just to develop a simple app, and I wondered if we could develop an app’s UI in a simple way (I am a lazy programmer, so I want to code as efficient as possible 🤣).

In early 2019, Flutter v1.0 was officially released, and I am thrilled to switch to Flutter for mobile app development. It took me only a few minutes to create an app’s UI, instead of several hours creating UI with imperative programming way.

Flutter’s Way of Creating UI, The Code Looks Very Neat (Image Source: buildwithangga.com)

Now, even though it’s easier to develop an app with Flutter, there are also several drawbacks that I found:

1. Performance isn’t as fast as native (even though it’s not that noticeable)
2. Falls behind in terms of native’s new feature support (for example, Flutter version 2.6 still…