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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)

Setting up the project

In this chapter, we will learn how to use inherited widgets by refactoring a simple Todo application. The application has an input field to create new tasks, or todos, and a list that will display todos and allow a user to either complete them or delete them.

Here is how our example should look when it is running:

Figure 3.5 – A simple Todo application

We will start with an example that shares dependencies by forwarding application data down the widget tree as properties. We will change this example to propagate those same dependencies using InheritedWidget rather than using property forwarding. Then, we will refactor that same example to use the Provider package, which is endorsed by the Flutter community and Google as a pragmatic solution to dependency injection and state management.

After downloading the initial application from GitHub, we can start by moving into its root directory and running the flutter pub get command...