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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen how the Dart language is structured in terms of the OOP paradigm. We have seen that the language proposes to provide all of the features to the developer when using the OOP paradigm, but also some particularities that are meant to extend developer possibilities, such as mixins for exploring multi-inheritance benefits and implicit interfaces that permit any class to be implemented by any other class, callable classes to add function behavior to simple objects, and top-level functions and variables that do not need to be bound to any class. It is very useful for utility functions that do not depend on context.

We explored how the Dart packages are structured, how to use the pub tool to add dependencies to the project, and use third-party packages. We have checked the multiple ways to structure a library, and how it composes a Dart package. Additionally...