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Learning Dart - Build Your First App with Flutter [Video]

By : Tim Anthony
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Learning Dart - Build Your First App with Flutter [Video]

By: Tim Anthony

Overview of this book

<p>Flutter is quickly becoming a well-known framework for developing cross-platform apps for both Android and iOS devices. Now developers don't have to learn Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, or Swift to have their apps on Play Store or the App Store. While there are other frameworks for building cross-platform apps, Flutter excels by using a great new language called Dart.</p> <p>With Dart and Flutter, you will develop apps for both stores with just one codebase. It compiles apps into native code without webview. Apps made with Flutter are very fast because of their high rendering power. Hence, they feel super-smooth, thus providing a rich user experience.</p> <p>With this course, you will be able to build app layouts, create widget animations, pull and push data to servers, and compile and release code to both stores.</p> <p>The code bundle for this video course is available at <a href="https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learning-Dart-Build-your-first-app-with-Flutter" target="_blank">https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learning-Dart-Build-your-first-app-with-Flutter</a></p> <h2>Style and Approach</h2> <p>A step-by-step guide from zero to releasing mobile apps to Play Store and App Store using Flutter and Dart.</p>
Table of Contents (5 chapters)
Chapter 3
Add a Static List of Messages and Simulate Chat
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Section 2
Improve the Layout of Chat Messages
The initial Chat Messages widget we added before is clunky. In this video, we will start to refine the UI little by little. We will also show the chat to friends from the recentChats.json file. - Add views for Home, ChatHistory, and Settings tabs - Read, deserialize, and load the recentChats.json file. Load it to a ListView - Make the Text widget for the messages aligned and use an image for the avatar