I wish that Google provided an offline/dev version of Firebase so that I could work on my mobile app when I’m not actually online. Sort of like they offer a dev version of Datastore for App Engine development.
I wish that Google made their Flutter documentation available as a downloadable package so that I could refer to it while I’m not actually online.
I wish that I could test the capability of Flutter+Firebase to deal gracefully with network unavailability.
I wish that software development didn’t suck.
In 1984, I was able to write a FORTRAN IV program to do a bunch of math and then output bitmapped Mandelbrot graphs to a dot matrix printer because the language was stable, the hardware was stable, and the manuals were printed out and stuck in binders on the shelf over the computer desk. Today, I can write programs anywhere but the languages aren’t stable and the hardware isn’t stable and the manuals are online. If I write code in a stable language for stable hardware, nobody I know will be able to run it.
Progress.
Docker. Stability.
https://hub.docker.com/r/devillex/docker-firebase/
ERMAGERD! YOU MEAN I CAN DEPLOY A DOCKER CONTAINER TO PEOPLE’S PHONES?!!!11111 THAT’S SO AMAZEBALLS!
Oh. I thought you just wanted it for offline dev work. You’re not doing dev work *on* the phone, are you?
You mean, I deploy the docker container to my laptop and direct the phone simulator to talk to the container? That’s actually rad.