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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

It can be a little tricky to understand forms without creating code examples. At this point, I highly recommend that you put together a form example and explore form keys, validation, saves, and error messages. You could even dabble in adding custom input, but don’t worry if that feels a step too far – it’s not needed for most standard apps.

Finding examples of forms online will help give you more guidance. This great page on LogRocket shows another example of creating a form and is worth a read to reinforce your learning in this chapter: https://blog.logrocket.com/flutter-form-validation-complete-guide/.

We also only touched on the Builder class, but it’s worth reading about this a bit more so that you understand the purpose of the class and how it can be useful with inherited widgets: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/Builder-class.html.