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Cross-Platform UIs with Flutter

By : Ryan Edge, Alberto Miola
Book Image

Cross-Platform UIs with Flutter

By: Ryan Edge, Alberto Miola

Overview of this book

Flutter is a UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, desktop, and embedded devices from a single code base. With Flutter, you can write your code once and run it anywhere using a single code base to target multiple platforms. This book is a comprehensive, project-based guide for new and emerging Flutter developers that will help empower you to build bulletproof applications. Once you start reading book, you’ll quickly realize what sets Flutter apart from its competition and establish some of the fundamentals of the toolkit. As you work on various project applications, you’ll understand just how easy Flutter is to use for building stunning UIs. This book covers navigation strategies, state management, advanced animation handling, and the two main UI design styles: Material and Cupertino. It’ll help you extend your knowledge with good code practices, UI testing strategies, and CI setup to constantly keep your repository’s quality at the highest level possible. By the end of this book, you'll feel confident in your ability to transfer the lessons from the example projects and build your own Flutter applications for any platform you wish.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Building a Counter App with History Tracking to Establish Fundamentals

When you decided to buy this book, you had probably already played with Flutter a bit or even already worked with it. We have organized this book in a way that chapters gradually increase in difficulty, and they can be read in any order. Even if you aren’t a Flutter master, you will still be able to get through all the chapters, thanks to in-depth analysis, images, and code snippets. When you arrive at the end of the book, you’ll be able to build Flutter apps up to version 2.5 in a professional and performant way.

When you create a new Flutter project, regardless of whether you’re using Android Studio or Visual Studio Code (VS Code), a new counter app is created for you. This is the default template used by the framework to set up a simple app you can run on mobile, desktop, and the web. In the first chapter, we’ll be building an enhanced version of the counter app that also keeps...