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Flutter Cookbook

By : Simone Alessandria, Brian Kayfitz
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Book Image

Flutter Cookbook

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By: Simone Alessandria, Brian Kayfitz

Overview of this book

“Anyone interested in developing Flutter applications for Android or iOS should have a copy of this book on their desk.” – Amazon 5* Review Lauded as the ‘Flutter bible’ for new and experienced mobile app developers, this recipe-based guide will teach you the best practices for robust app development, as well as how to solve cross-platform development issues. From setting up and customizing your development environment to error handling and debugging, The Flutter Cookbook covers the how-tos as well as the principles behind them. As you progress, the recipes in this book will get you up to speed with the main tasks involved in app development, such as user interface and user experience (UI/UX) design, API design, and creating animations. Later chapters will focus on routing, retrieving data from web services, and persisting data locally. A dedicated section also covers Firebase and its machine learning capabilities. The last chapter is specifically designed to help you create apps for the web and desktop (Windows, Mac, and Linux). Throughout the book, you’ll also find recipes that cover the most important features needed to build a cross-platform application, along with insights into running a single codebase on different platforms. By the end of this Flutter book, you’ll be writing and delivering fully functional apps with confidence.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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About Packt

How it works...

FlutterFire is a set of Flutter plugins that enable Flutter apps to use Firebase services.

The steps required to integrate FlutterFire into a Flutter app are as follows:

  • Creating a Firebase project: This is the top-level entity for Firebase. Each feature you add to your apps belongs to a Firebase project. You completed this task in points 1 to 9 in the How to do it... section of this recipe. 
    When you create a new project in Firebase, you'll need to choose a project name. This is your project's identifier and is from the Firebase Project Overview page, which contains the name of the project and the billing plan. It's here that you add all the other features to your app. 
  • Registering your android, iOS, web, and desktop apps in the Firebase console: If you are planning to release your app on multiple platforms, use the same project to register all your apps. You completed this task in the Android configuration and iOS configuration sections. ...