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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

Handling large datasets with list builders

There is an interesting trick that mobile apps use when they need to render lists of data that can potentially contain more entries than your device has memory to display. This was especially critical in the early days of mobile app development, when phones were a lot less powerful than they are today. Imagine that you had to create a contacts app, where your user could potentially have hundreds and hundreds of scrollable contacts. If you put them all in a single ListView and asked Flutter to create all of these widgets, there would be a point where your app could run out of memory, slow down, and even potentially crash.

Take a look at the contacts app on your phone and scroll up and down really fast. These apps don't show any delay while scrolling, and they certainly aren't in any danger of crashing because of the amount of data. What's the secret? If you look carefully at your app, you'll see that only...