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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

Presenting bottom sheets

There are times where you need to present modal information, but a dialog just comes on too strong. Fortunately, there are quite a few alternative conventions for putting information on the screen that do not necessarily require action from users. Bottom sheets are one of the "gentler" alternatives to dialogs. With a bottom sheet, information slides out from the bottom of the screen, where it can be swiped down by the user if it displeases them. Also, unlike alerts, bottom sheets do not block the main interface, allowing the user to conveniently ignore this optional modal.

In this final recipe for the stopwatch app, we're going to replace the dialog alert with a bottom sheet and animate it away after 5 seconds.