Mobile application dev or web dev

Question

I am learning programming, I learned Java, I took a little experience with Android, I made a simple application, then I started to learn flutter, I took a course and i created a simple application, and now many people tell me and I see that the web is more widespread and has more job opportunities, and I want to be a Frontend developer What would you advise me to continue learning flutter or go to the web because I want to work as a freelancer or in a company?

Solution

I think everyone would agree that only you yourself can decide what to do with your own life. We have neither right to decide it for you nor will to bear such responsibility.

"I want to fly planes, but I also want to drive a bus or maybe I should be a train operator?" All those professions have the "driver/pilot" role in common, yet they are very different. Just because everything you mentioned involves programming, doesn't mean it is all the same and learning a few lines of code here and there doesn't make a pro, but I'm sure you know that.

If you want a decent job, I suggest you to explore your local job market, see what real companies need most. Then think about the future - will they still need it by the time you finish studying it?

Keep in mind that the tech landscape in always changing. Flutter can be hot now, but in few years - who knows? For example, nobody in their sane mind today really considers Xamarin and C# as something to learn for cross-platform mobile dev, but it had future.. at some point. Anyway, hope you get the idea.

Comments

[Sunny]

creating simple app does not mean you know everything. You can deep dive in to the frameworks. Also you can create web apps with flutter as well.

[Admin]

I didn't mean I learned everything.

[Admin]

@Sunny I didn't mean I learned everything and people say flutter web is newly born and it has many issues

[Admin]

@Sunny so do advise me to stick with flutter or not!

[Sunny]

from what I know because I've lot of experience in flutter as well. I would advice you to go with flutter.

[Admin]

@Sunny thank you so much I appreciate that 🙏

[Admin]

Thanks you I appreciate that❤️

[Admin]

I asked one of my friends about local jobs cuz he work in a company and he said web is more needed

[Nathanael]

It depends entirely on your goals. If your goal is to quickly achieve a job, Flutter is not as popular of a hybrid framework and your options will be limited.

[Nathanael]

It's a perfectly good framework, there are just not many job opportunities available for it. If you're freelancing a custom app from scratch (in charge of designing the entire app) you can use Flutter. However it is less likely that existing apps are written in Flutter, than say Ionic or React Native.

[Admin]

you are right I think because it is newly born and react native is popular and growing fast

[Nathanael]

Another benefit with React Native is that it is based in JavaScript, and uses React, which means that the skills translate pretty well to web development.