I'm targeting GSOC 2025 and I wish to contribute in Joplin. My tech stack is React Native. But one of my friend told me that Joplin is switching its tech stack from React Native to Flutter. Is it true?
May I continue to do contribution in Joplin via React Native or should I look for some another organisations if I want to contribute via react native for gsoc or even after gsoc?
Never heard of anything like it. Everything is written in JS and slowly switching to TS. Can you point where this misinformation coming from?
Actually I'm targeting GSOC 2025 and I asked one of my friend to suggest some orgs based on react native so he told me about this thing. But he was unsure about it so he asked me to confirm it.
BTW, I'm unable to setup this project for react native (android) on windows. Even after following all steps from instructions it is showing error given below. Can you help me with that?
D:\ReactNative\joplin\packages\app-mobile\android> gradlew.bat installDebug
Configure project :app
WARNING: The option setting 'android.jetifier.ignorelist=bcprov' is experimental.
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
Could not determine the dependencies of null.
Cannot query the value of this provider because it has no value available.
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
Run with --scan to get full insights.
Get more help at https://help.gradle.org.
Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 9.0.
You can use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings and determine if they come from your own scripts or plugins.
For more on this, please refer to Command-Line Interface Reference in the Gradle documentation.
BUILD FAILED in 5s
5 actionable tasks: 1 executed, 4 up-to-date
I'm not aware of any plans to migrate to Flutter from RN. For dev and build advice it would be better to make a new topic in the Development category.
Okay. Thank you for the response.
I would like to see Joplin moving to Flutter or even Tauri or Kotlin with Kotlin Multiplatform for a better experience on mobile which will allow for background syncing and better performance on mobile.
Tauri 2.0 has been released which supports making Desktop, Android and iOS apps using HTML, JS and CSS.