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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

How it works...

The beauty of flutter_secure_storage is that while it's extremely easy to use, secure encryption happens under the hood. Specifically, if you are using iOS, data gets encrypted using Keychain. On Android, flutter_secure_storage uses AES encryption, which, in turn, is encrypted with RSA, whose key is stored in KeyStore.

To use it, we must get an instance of the FlutterSecureStorage class, which we can obtain with the following instruction:

final storage = FlutterSecureStorage();

Like shared_preferences, it uses key-value pairs to store data. You can write a value into a key with the following instruction:

await storage.write(key: myKey, value: pwdController.text);

You can read the value from a key with the following instruction:

String secret = await storage.read(key: myKey);

As you may have noticed, the read() and write() methods are both asynchronous.