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Flutter for Beginners

By : Alessandro Biessek
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Flutter for Beginners

By: Alessandro Biessek

Overview of this book

Google Flutter is a cross-platform mobile framework that makes it easy to write high-performance apps for Android and iOS. This book will help you get to grips with the basics of the Flutter framework and the Dart programming language. Starting from setting up your development environment, you’ll learn to design the UI and add user input functions. You'll explore the navigator widget to manage app routes and learn to add transitions between screens. The book will even guide you through developing your own plugin and later, you’ll discover how to structure good plugin code. Using the Google Places API, you'll also understand how to display a map in the app and add markers and interactions to it. You’ll then learn to improve the user experience with features such as map integrations, platform-specific code with native languages, and personalized animation options for designing intuitive UIs. The book follows a practical approach and gives you access to all relevant code files hosted at github.com/PacktPublishing/Flutter-for-Beginners. This will help you access a variety of examples and prepare your own bug-free apps, ready to deploy on the App Store and Google Play Store. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with Dart programming and have the skills to develop your own mobile apps or build a career as a Dart and Flutter app developer.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Introduction to Dart
5
Section 2: The Flutter User Interface - Everything is a Widget
10
Section 3: Developing Fully Featured Apps
15
Section 4: Advanced Flutter - Resources to Complex Apps

Plugin project development recommendations

Flutter plugins are great for accelerating app development. Contributing to the community by sharing a plugin is also great; however, there are few points to consider when planning to publish a plugin to make it really useful and accepted:

  • Support multiple platforms: Plugins that target a single platform go wrong from the start. Since Flutter is a cross-platform framework, we need to think this way, since the plugins will be used to create applications that will run on multiple platforms.
  • Write good documentation: Flutter provides tools to make it easy to create and publish a package with all the documentation; the only task required is to write this document.
  • Search for existing plugins first: Maybe you are thinking of developing another plugin on Flutter, but you should search in pub first to check whether it's already developed...