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Flutter for Beginners - Third Edition

By : Thomas Bailey, Alessandro Biessek
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Book Image

Flutter for Beginners - Third Edition

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By: Thomas Bailey, Alessandro Biessek

Overview of this book

There have been many attempts at creating frameworks that are truly cross-platform, but most struggle to create a native-like experience at high-performance levels. Flutter achieves this with an elegant design and a wealth of third-party plugins, solidifying its status as the future of mobile app development. If you are a mobile developer who wants to create rich and expressive native apps with the latest Google Flutter framework, this book is for you. You’ll start with the basics of cross-platform development frameworks, specifically Flutter. You’ll then explore the Dart programming language which is the foundation of the Flutter framework. Next, you’ll get a feel for Flutter and how to create your first app, followed by an exploration of the various popular plugins that supplement the Flutter framework. Finally, you’ll explore testing and app release, including some common glitches that you may experience. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to create and release a basic Flutter app along with gaining a solid understanding of the Flutter framework and Dart language.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1:Learning the Core Concepts
6
Part 2:Building a Basic Flutter App
11
Part 3:Turning a Simple App into an Awesome App
15
Part 4:Testing and Releasing Your App

Further reading

A very interesting part of the progression of Flutter is its new rendering runtime – Impeller. Flutter has suffered from a symptom known as jank, where a new sequence of draw commands could slow the frame rate due to the way the Skia graphics library copes with these new draw commands.

Impeller, a custom-built solution, aims to solve this by pre-preparing the draw commands in advance so that frame rate reduction is avoided. If this interests you, then it is worth investigating further, starting with the Flutter docs video on the topic: https://docs.flutter.dev/perf/impeller.

Another topic that is worth investigating further is the Flutter DevTools. We only touched on the widget and performance inspectors, but there are loads of other cool tools you can use. Find out more on the Flutter docs site: https://docs.flutter.dev/tools/devtools/overview.