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Is the complete lack of accessibility still the giveaway? Last I looked Flutter was a complete nonstarter for accessibility.

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I worked on the GPay flutter rewrite and our standard for accessibility was higher than almost any other app I've seen, and was a significant amount of effort spent on that. What accessibility shortcomings does flutter have?

This may be a silly question, but how do I install the Google Pay app on my iPhone?

I'd like to try it out since it's the first app listed in the Flutter Showcase, people keep mentioning it in this thread, and it probably works as well as a Flutter app can, given that it's first-party from Google.

But when I search for it on the App Store, it's nowhere to be found (or at least not in the first 20 results).

It's only for the Indian market. As Google often does, they released Google Wallet for the US market. But that's not a failure of Flutter itself of course, only internal Google politics.

Google pay was never able to fix the pre-compiled animation rendering issue on iOS where the first transition or animation is always janky and then it gets cached and no longer has jank.

That is quite a non-starter imo

Can you elaborate? What's missing that makes you feel confident saying "complete lack of" despite well-documented accessibility functionality (including testing for accessibility)? [1]

[1] https://docs.flutter.dev/ui/accessibility-and-internationali...

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