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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)

Exploring Navigation and Routing with a Hacker News Clone

So far in our adventures, we have yet to build more than a simple application, however in real life, most of the applications that we use in our daily lives have more than one page. Due to this, every framework has a way of navigating between different views or pages; this feature allows us to keep the user’s experience simple and intuitive because we only display the information that they need to see rather than everything that might lead to information overload.

In this chapter, we will learn how to navigate in a multi-page application using Flutter and its Navigator APIs. First, we will examine how navigation works in Flutter and how we can move from one screen of an application to another. Then, we will build a news application with the Navigator 1.0 API. After getting a clear understanding of how Navigator 1.0 works, we will refactor our application to use Navigator 2.0. Finally, we will simplify our application...