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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 an Animated Excuses Application

The true benefits of Flutter shine not just in your ability to build high-fidelity user interfaces but also in allowing you to build high-fidelity experiences. Flutter has the well-stated goal of allowing multiplatform applications to operate at a smooth 60 frames-per-second.

In this chapter, we will learn how to build smooth animations in an application designed to give us random excuses to miss work. First, we will learn about the different types of animations in Flutter. Then, we will build our excuses application to use explicit animations. Next, we will refactor the entry of excuses to use implicit animations. Finally, we will refactor our Flutter application to take advantage of Flutter’s animations package.

You will cover the following topics:

  • Working with animations in Flutter
  • Building implicit animations in Flutter
  • Building implicit animations using Flutter’s animations package