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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

Nesting complex widget trees

Your effectiveness with any given platform is measured by how fast you can make changes. Hot reload helps with this exponentially. Being able to quickly edit properties on a widget, hit Save, and almost instantly see your results without losing state is wonderful. This feature enables you to experiment. It also allows you to make mistakes and quickly undo them without wasting precious compile time.

But there is one area where Flutter's nested syntax can slow your progress. Throughout this chapter, we have used the phrase wrap in a widget frequently. This implies that you are going to take an existing widget and make it the child of a new widget, essentially pushing it one level down the tree. This can be error-prone if done manually, but thankfully the Flutter tools help you manipulate your widget trees with speed and effectiveness.

In this recipe, you are going to explore the IDE's tools that will allow you to build deep...