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Beginning Flutter

Beginning Flutter

By : Marco L. Napoli
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Beginning Flutter

Beginning Flutter

By: Marco L. Napoli

Overview of this book

The Flutter community is growing rapidly and transforming the way Android and iOS apps get made.?Beginning Flutter?allows you to get on board with the latest app development technology, giving your mobile development career a big head start. This book?is the essential resource for both experienced and novice developers interested in getting started with Flutter—the powerful new mobile software development kit. With Flutter, you can quickly and easily develop beautiful, powerful apps for both Android and iOS, without the need to learn multiple programming languages or juggle more than one code base. This book walks you through the process step by step. In Flutter, you’ll be working with Dart, the programming language of choice for top app developers. Even if you’re just starting out in your development career, you can learn Dart quickly, eliminating the barrier to entry for building apps. This is a more efficient way to develop and maintain cross-platform mobile apps, and this book makes the process even easier with a teach-by-example approach.
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Learning Dart Basics

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER

  • Why you use Dart
  • How to comment code
  • How to use the top‐level main() function
  • How to reference variables such as numbers, strings, Booleans, lists, maps, and runes
  • How common flow statements (such as if, for, while, and the ternary operator), loops, and switch and case work
  • How functions are used to group reusable logic
  • How to use the import statement for external packages, libraries or classes
  • How to create classes
  • How to use asynchronous programming to avoid blocking the user interface

Dart is the foundation of learning to develop Flutter projects. In this chapter, you'll start understanding Dart's basic structure. In future chapters, you'll create apps that implement these concepts. All the sample code is in the ch3_dart_basics folder. (In the sample code, don't worry about how it's laid out; just take a look so you can see how Dart code is written. Tap the floating action button located on...

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