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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

Theme widgets

Developing an application goes beyond good features. It is also about the user experience that the app offers.

The composability of Flutter widgets helps in this part of development. By defining single responsibility for each widget type, we can choose to define themes and styles that apply to a single widget, to all widgets in a subtree, or to the entire application.

By using the Theme widget, we can customize the whole look and feel of an application with custom colors for text, error messages, highlights, and also custom fonts. Flutter also uses this widget in its own widgets. MaterialApp is a great example of how the framework internal widgets are composed: it uses the Theme widget internally to customize the look of the Material Design-based widgets such as AppBars and Buttons. Let's check out how to use Theme widgets in practice to apply different styles...