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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)

Technical requirements

We recommend that you work on the stable channel and work with Flutter version 2.5 or newer. Any version after Flutter 2.0 could still be okay, but we can’t guarantee that you won’t encounter unexpected problems while trying to compile our source code.

Since we’re going to test the UI on various screen sizes, we will compile it for the web so that we can resize the browser window to easily emulate different viewports. While very convenient and quick to test, you could spin up various emulators with different screen sizes or use your own physical devices.

We also recommend using either Android Studio or Visual Studio Code (VS Code): choose the one you like more!

The complete source code for this project can be found at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Cross-Platform-UIs-with-Flutter/tree/main/chapter_2.