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Flutter Cookbook

By : Simone Alessandria, Brian Kayfitz
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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.
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We also touched on two more advanced scrolling topics in this recipe – itemExtent and ScrollController.

The itemExtent property is a way to supply a fixed height to all the items in ListView. Instead of letting the widget figure out its own height based on the content, using the itemExtent property will enforce a fixed height for every item. This has added performance benefits, since ListView now needs to do less work when laying out its children, and it also makes it easier to calculate scrolling animations.

ScrollController is a special object that allows to key into ListView from outside the build methods. This is a frequently used pattern in Flutter where you can optionally provide a controller object that has methods to manipulate its widget. ScrollController can do many interesting things, but in this recipe, we just used it to animate ListView from the _lap method:

scrollController...