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Flutter Cookbook

By : Simone Alessandria, Brian Kayfitz
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Book Image

Flutter Cookbook

4 (1)
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

Making it scroll

It is very rare to encounter an app that doesn't have some sort of scrolling content. Scrolling, especially vertical scrolling, is one of the most natural paradigms in mobile development. When you have a list of elements that can extend beyond the height of a screen, you'll need to use some sort of scrollable widget.

Scrolling content is actually rather easy to accomplish in Flutter. To get started with scrolling, a great widget is ListViewJust like Columns, ListViews control a list of child widgets and place them one after another. However, ListViews will also make that content scroll automatically when their height is bigger than the height of their parent widget.

In this recipe, we're going to add laps to our stopwatch app and display those laps in a scrollable list.