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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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How it works...

The main takeaway from this recipe is the importance of proper widget tree construction. When you push a new route onto Navigator, you are essentially replacing every widget that lives underneath MaterialApp, as explained in this diagram:

If PlanProvider was a child of MaterialApp, it would be destroyed when pushing the new route, making all its data inaccessible to the next widget. If you have an InheritedWidget that only needs to provide data for a single screen, then placing it lower in the widget tree is optimal. However, if this same data needs to be accessed across multiple screens, it has to be placed above our Navigator.

Placing our global state widget at the root of the tree also has the added benefit of causing our app to update without any extra code. Try checking and unchecking a few tasks in your plans. You'll notice that the is data automatically updated, like magic. This is one of the primary benefits of maintaining a clean architecture in...