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Flutter Cookbook

By : Simone Alessandria, Brian Kayfitz
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Book Image

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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How it works...

getPosition() is an asynchronous method that returns a Future. It leverages a Geolocator class to retrieve the last known position of the user.

Now the question may arise: where should getPosition be called? As the position should be retrieved only once, the obvious choice should be leveraging the initState method, which only gets called once, when the widget is loaded. 

It is recommended to keep initState synchronous, therefore you can use the then syntax to wait for the callback and update the state of the widget. myPosition is a state String variable that contains the message the user will see after the device has retrieved the coordinates, and it includes the latitude and longitude.

In the build method, there is just a centered Text containing the value of myPosition, which is empty at the beginning and then shows the string with the coordinates.