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If I could fix one thing in Flutter with a magic wand, it would be scrolling. There's something fundamentally different how Flutter apps scroll compared to native views. E.g. on Android overscroll doesn't look well when flinging, on iOS the keyboard will never affect the scrollable in intuitive way.

Eric Seidel

@eseidel.com

This is fixable. I’d encourage you to play with github.com/flutter/plat... if you haven’t.

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21/11/24, 2:57 pm0 reposts3 likes

Will do asap

Do you recommend looking at scroll_overlay?

Eric Seidel

@eseidel.com

21 Nov 2024

Yeah. That was a tool we built a long time ago to debug this kind of thing. @gregprice.bsky.social recently used it to improve Android scrolling as well.

Mark O'Sullivan 🌎

@markos.dev

21 Nov 2024

Any tips on how to make best use of it?

Eric Seidel

@eseidel.com

21 Nov 2024

It's been a long time since I've used it. Sounds like @roszkowski.dev is also looking. You two should swap notes. Via here, Discord or otherwise. github.com/flutter/flut...

I haven't used it in a long time. The idea of those tools is to show a Flutter control over the top of a "native" control and compare pixels and gesture responses. scroll_overlay was one where you just scrolled and it had stripes in both iOS and Flutter so you could see how they differed.