Expo like tool for flutter

[no-1ne]

Hi folks, thank you for amazing flutter.

React native ecosystem has snack.expo.io and a companion Expo android/ios client where users can test the app on their actual device.

A similar thing for flutter would be awesome.
Considering the modular architecture of flutter, I hope it's doable and it would be an amazing tool for people to get started, experiment and share (kind of like a flutterbin (also considering humming bird, it would make a perfect UX as well)

[kangwang1988]

/cc @timsneath
Maybe something like https://dartpad.dartlang.org for flutter.

[zacowan]

Something like this, in my opinion, would be amazing for Flutter. The only reason I am holding off on switching to Flutter from React Native is because I need to test stuff on an actual device, and I don't want to have to connect it to my computer and build it every single time. Would love to see somebody create an Expo-like solution for this problem.

Edit: I no longer think this is necessary. There is already extensive tooling available for building on the iOS simulator and building to a device, and I don't think Expo is necessary with the ability to hot reload.

[guichafy]

Something like expo.io would be awesome.

[no-1ne]

This would fall inline with roadmap

"Making it easy to try Flutter without installing the full tooling and runtime stack"

Looking forward to hummingbird details, never have been so exciting times, a possible holy grail of development

https://events.google.com/io/schedule/events/03d8425c-54ca-437b-bac7-ece76cca8347

Hope there will also be an "one more thing" where you announce tooling to try flutter without installing it. Once again looking forward and good luck for #IO19

[mactive]

Expo is so cool and has a lot of SDK embeded. https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/sdk/overview/ Otherwise, it has a complete CLI for you from dev to publish.

[Harshithpm]

With expo we can test our react native apps on ios or android regardless of the os we are using
a feature like this in flutter would be awesome

[yogesh-aggarwal]

Please the flutter team brings this!!!