Using Widget Manipulations and Animations

The built-in widgets and those available via plugins help you create a great-looking app, but Flutter allows you to manipulate these widgets with layout transformations, such as opacity, rotations, and decorations, allowing you to further improve the user experience (UX) of your app. In this chapter, you will learn how to add these transformations to widgets.

Taking this widget manipulation a step further, Flutter has great support for animations that can be combined and extended to bring the user interface (UI) to life. You will learn about animations, including the use of Tween animations to manage an animation timeline and curve and using AnimatedBuilder to add and combine beautiful animations.

Finally, we will look at some widgets that have animation built directly into them, allowing you to skip the added complication of animation setup and management. They don’t fit every situation, but when just a touch of animation is required...