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Flutter Projects

By : Simone Alessandria
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Flutter Projects

By: Simone Alessandria

Overview of this book

Flutter is a modern reactive mobile framework that removes a lot of the complexity found in building native mobile apps for iOS and Android. With Flutter, developers can now build fast and native mobile apps from a single codebase. This book is packed with 11 projects that will help you build your own mobile applications using Flutter. It begins with an introduction to Dart programming and explains how it can be used with the Flutter SDK to customize mobile apps. Each chapter contains instructions on how to build an independent app from scratch, and each project focuses on important Flutter features.From building Flutter Widgets and applying animations to using databases (SQLite and sembast) and Firebase, you'll build on your knowledge through the chapters. As you progress, you’ll learn how to connect to remote services, integrate maps, and even use Flare to create apps and games in Flutter. Gradually, you’ll be able to create apps and games that are ready to be published on the Google Play Store and the App Store. In the concluding chapters, you’ll learn how to use the BLoC pattern and various best practices related to creating enterprise apps with Flutter. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to write and deliver fully functional mobile apps using Flutter.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
12
Assessment

Adding the search feature

By leveraging the Movie Database web service search feature, we'll allow our users to search any movie by title. What we want to do is show a search icon button in the AppBar. When the user taps on the button they will be able to enter part of a movie title into a TextField, and when they press the search button on the keyboard, the app will call the web service to retrieve all movies that contain the user's input.

Let's add the logic that we'll use to implement the search feature and call the Movie Database web API with the title we want to search:

  1. In the http_helper.dart file, in the HttpHelper class, let's declare a final String, containing the beginning of the URL required to perform a movie search. Obviously each API has its own URL structure, but most public web services have thorough documentation that will help you to...