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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

Make sure that your Flutter environment has been updated to the latest version in the stable channel. Since we’re going to be working on the application that we made in Chapter 1, Building a Counter App with History Tracking to Establish Fundamentals, please clone our repository and use your favorite IDE to open the Flutter project we built at chapter_1/with_inherited_widget.

As always, the complete code for this chapter can be found in this book’s GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Cross-Platform-UIs-with-Flutter/tree/main/chapter_9. Note that GitHub’s settings, including workflows for using GitHub actions, will be located at the root of the repository, so you’ll find the .github folder at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Cross-Platform-UIs-with-Flutter.