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I’m a professional plugin developer. I make plugins for Cordova, React Native and Flutter. Flutter is my favorite.

You should do a hello world at least.

Is building plugins faster/easier than building apps (using Flutter)? Looking to learn flutter so wondering if I should build a plugin or app when going beyond hello world.

Build an app. There are many things in the plugin api that you don’t interact with in the app. The plugin api is the bridge between the front-end and native iOS / Android apis.

Where do you sell Flutter plugins? How do you come up with ideas?

Over 5 years ago, I created a background-geolocation plugin for Cordova. I later ported it to React Native and now flutter. It’s not every plugin that could be monetized. Geolocation, especially in the terminated state, is a special case.

https://github.com/transistorsoft/flutter_background_geoloca...

Background geolocation for iOS / Android is all I do.

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