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Flutter Cookbook

You're reading from   Flutter Cookbook Over 100 proven techniques and solutions for app development with Flutter 2.2 and Dart

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838823382
Length 646 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Simone Alessandria Simone Alessandria
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Brian Kayfitz Brian Kayfitz
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Flutter 2. Dart: A Language You Already Know FREE CHAPTER 3. Introduction to Widgets 4. Mastering Layout and Taming the Widget Tree 5. Adding Interactivity and Navigation to Your App 6. Basic State Management 7. The Future is Now: Introduction to Asynchronous Programming 8. Data Persistence and Communicating with the Internet 9. Advanced State Management with Streams 10. Using Flutter Packages 11. Adding Animations to Your App 12. Using Firebase 13. Machine Learning with Firebase ML Kit 14. Distributing Your Mobile App 15. Flutter Web and Desktop 16. About Packt

How it works...

An AnimatedContainer is an animated version of a Container widget that changes its properties over a specific period of time. In this recipe, you have created a transition animation that changes the color, width, height, and margin of a widget.

When you use an AnimatedContainer the duration is required. Here is the instruction:

AnimatedContainer(
duration: Duration(seconds: 1),

This specifies that each time a property of the AnimatedContainer changes, the transition between the old value and the new one will take 1 second.

Next, you set the property or properties of the AnimatedContainer that should change over your specified duration.

Not all the properties of an AnimatedContainer must change, but if they change, they will change together, during the time specified in the duration property. 

In our project, we used four properties: color, width, height, and margin, with the following code:

color: colors[iteration],
width: sizes[iteration],
height...
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