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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

Preface

Flutter for Beginners helps you to enter the Flutter framework world and build awesome mobile applications. I'll take you from an introduction to the Dart language to an in-depth exploration of all the Flutter blocks needed to make a high-level app. Together, we will build a fully featured app. With clear code examples, you will learn how to start a small Flutter project, add some widgets, apply styles and themes, connect with remote services such as Firebase, get user input, add some animations to improve the user experience, and more. In addition, you will learn how to add advanced features, map integrations, work with platform-specific code with native programming languages, and create fantastic UIs with personalized animations. In short, this book will prepare you for the future of mobile development with this amazing framework.