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Flutter for Beginners - Second Edition

By : Thomas Bailey, Alessandro Biessek
Book Image

Flutter for Beginners - Second Edition

By: Thomas Bailey, Alessandro Biessek

Overview of this book

There have been many attempts at creating frameworks that are truly cross-platform, but most struggle to create a native-like experience at high performance levels. Flutter achieves this with an elegant design and a wealth of third-party plugins, making it the future of mobile app development. If you are a mobile developer who wants to create rich and expressive native apps with the latest Google Flutter framework, this book is for you. This book will guide you through developing your first app from scratch all the way to production release. Starting with the setup of your development environment, you'll learn about your app's UI design and responding to user input via Flutter widgets, manage app navigation and screen transitions, and create widget animations. You'll then explore the rich set of third party-plugins, including Firebase and Google Maps, and get to grips with testing and debugging. Finally, you'll get up to speed with releasing your app to mobile stores and the web. By the end of this Flutter book, you'll have gained the confidence to create, edit, test, and release a full Flutter app on your own.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Flutter and Dart
6
Section 2: The Flutter User Interface – Everything Is a Widget
10
Section 3: Developing Fully Featured Apps
14
Section 4: Testing and App Release

Flutter community

Flutter has a vibrant community, which is key to the long-term success of any software project that relies on community contributions. Google is very active in this, involving Flutter in conferences and organizing Flutter events.

Events

Flutter Engage is an event dedicated to the Flutter framework. It shares best practices, new developments, feature overviews, and the chance to interact with Flutter experts.

The first Flutter Engage took place on March 3, 2021 and introduced a whole raft of new Flutter features, including Flutter 2.0, dual-display widgets from Microsoft, first-class Google AdMob integration, and tooling to help with Flutter migration to newer versions, among many other features and bug fixes. Flutter 2.0 also introduced full support for the web platform, which was previously a beta release. In addition, stability on all desktop platforms was announced, which led to an announcement from Canonical, publisher of Linux distribution Ubuntu, that...