DartNative

DartNative is the new framework for building beautiful, high-performance native apps with Dart.

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

DartNative is a beast. And it’s magic. 🧙‍♂️🔥

We’ve only scratched the surface of its potential.

Fast, stable, reliable dn run, unified native/Dart logs, native and custom UI, reactive state management powered by Signals, a truly native look and feel, CodePush, and much more. 🔥

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

It’s launch day! 🚀🎵

Thank you to everyone who has been kind, excited, and supportive along the way. ❤️🙏

Let’s build. ⚡️

https://t.co/6FYhfhDhXD

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

Honestly, we're glad we're not part of the React Native community.

Thankfully, other framework communities have always been respectful and professional. ❤️

[ioseph magno @iosemagno]

@gabimoncha @RiteshRk14 Please don't donate blood at a hospital. It could kill people.

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

@1804davey Here’s another Margelo guy. The more you say, the more people see who you really are.

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

@RiteshRk14 We’ll block you too :) You’re a disgrace to your own community.

The slide is clear and fair: iPhone 16 results compare only Flutter and DN. No mixed results, no claims about your framework. We’ll add Native Shell, iPhone 12’s winner. But with 150 ms, you’re arguing over nothing.

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

@ogbo_dev Looks like Ioseph didn't have time to test it. We may add Native Shell for the iPhone 16. It was the winner on the iPhone 12. But with these numbers, it hardly matters. ~150 ms is just a blink of an eye.

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

We’re fast! 🏎️🏎️🏎️

[ioseph magno @iosemagno]

Done! This should also give you an idea of how long it took me to port the benchmark app from Flutter to DartNative. We'll publish the source code if we're allowed to.

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

Meet Kept, a beautiful countdown app built with DartNative! 🚀

You can read more about what goes on under the hood in our GitHub Discussions:
https://t.co/1aQOdyJZOR

Or ask @Edkluivert directly!

Building something with DN? Let the community know. ❤️

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

Let us know if you like the Discord server structure below! ❤️

[ioseph magno @iosemagno]

🚨 Community is already active on our GitHub Discussions.

To stay updated on new posts and discussions, click the Watch button -> Custom -> Enable Discussions.

We'll soon connect GitHub Discussions to Discord using GitHub Actions + a Discord Webhook. This way, whenever someone creates a new GitHub Discussion, Discord will automatically publish a notification in # github-discussions. 🔥

Here's the structure we're planning to use. Please let us know if you think we're missing anything!

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

Native Home Screen Widgets for iOS and Android are coming to DartNative! 🚀

https://t.co/6obFxVbvSG

To stay updated on new posts and discussions, click the Watch button -> Custom -> Discussions at the top of our GitHub repository to enable notifications. ❤️

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

@TanzilTaqi We considered Slack too, but Discord feels like a better fit for the kind of community we want to build. Would Discord work for you?

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

🚨 Breaking: To keep the DartNative community safe from hostile competitors, we’re abandoning Reddit and opening GitHub Discussions! 🚀

A Discord server is coming too.

Everyone is welcome. Come share, ask questions, and discuss freely! 🧵

https://t.co/hWjMlptyz3

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

@kiishigod @wolkahq @itetheagent Hi Kiishi, could you share Wolka in our Showcase section here? https://t.co/Q6YR8Yh7Db

We love your app and think it could be a great inspiration for other developers in the community! ❤️

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

@Dinand_dev Thank you! 🙏

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

iOS Live Activities and Android Live Updates are coming! 🚀

Some use cases:
🚕 Requesting a ride
⚽ Following a live match score
📈 Stock price updates
🔋 EV charging progress
🏥 Doctor waiting room updates

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

4. Please reshare your Reddit posts in GitHub Discussions to keep conversations alive.

Sorry for the inconvenience. Apparently, launching a disruptive framework with a free plan and paid plans up to 5x cheaper than competitors attracts love… and trouble. 😅❤️

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

3. Any Reddit community related to DartNative is independent and not endorsed by us. We’ve lost confidence in Reddit’s fairness and are tired of seeing our users face removed posts and unexplained bans.

We want a space where everyone can speak freely. ❤️

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

@JulesBilong @Reddit You know what to do. 😎

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

🚨 Dear DN community,

@Reddit has banned r/DartNativeDev again, without notice or explanation.

We suspect unfair competitor reports are triggering automatic bans. No community is safe, regardless of years of growth and resources invested.

We’ve appealed. We’ll keep you updated

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

🚨 r/DartNativeDev is officially unbanned! 🎉

Huge thanks to our amazing community for the support, and to @Reddit for taking the time to fairly assess the facts. You guys rock! 🤘🔥

Let’s get back to sharing and building real native apps with Dart! 🚀

https://t.co/NdjE7Fu4Fa

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

🚨 @Reddit has banned r/DartNativeDev and its moderator accounts following the activity below. 👇

Once again, hostile reports appear to have triggered an automatic ban, with no human review. Someone is exploiting Reddit’s systems to target DartNative.

[ioseph magno @iosemagno]

We prefer not to disclose the kind of pressure we're dealing with behind the scenes. The world can be a rotten place, and we'd rather keep developers safe from all that mud.

However, the only activity before this ban was a community post about a DN tool and our post about CodePush security, which also compared pricing across DartNative, Expo, and Shorebird.

There was no other activity. One of these two posts appears to have triggered the ban.

The big question now is this: if @Reddit's systems can be manipulated to get legitimate communities banned for legitimate activity, how can anyone safely build a community here? It's effectively handing your users over to potential hostile competitors.

And if Reddit can take such disruptive action without first reviewing the situation or notifying the people affected, how can anyone trust that years of community contributions and accumulated content won't simply disappear overnight?

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

DartNative: https://t.co/vkEf3YAXxf
Expo: https://t.co/TQDGSAadMl

[DartNative @DartNativeX]

DartNative also doesn’t lock you into the cloud just to charge you hundreds or thousands of dollars a year.

DartNative: $49/year
Expo: $228/year

~5x less, and that’s just the baseline paid plan. With heavy usage, Expo can cost you a fortune for nothing.

[ioseph magno @iosemagno]

We confirm that Expo's excitement is justified when compared to React Native's performance baseline. But those numbers are nothing surprising for DartNative. 😎

The Dart community is already one step ahead.