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Flutter Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   Flutter Cookbook, Second Edition 100+ step-by-step recipes for building cross-platform, professional-grade apps with Flutter 3.10.x and Dart 3.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245430
Length 712 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Simone Alessandria Simone Alessandria
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Flutter 2. Creating Your First Flutter App FREE CHAPTER 3. Dart: A Language You Already Know 4. Introduction to Widgets 5. Mastering Layout and Taming the Widget Tree 6. Adding Interactivity and Navigation to Your App 7. Basic State Management 8. The Future is Now: Introduction to Asynchronous Programming 9. Data Persistence and Communicating with the Internet 10. Advanced State Management with Streams 11. Using Flutter Packages 12. Adding Animations to Your App 13. Using Firebase 14. Firebase Machine Learning 15. Flutter Web and Desktop 16. Distributing Your Mobile App 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

Which IDE/editor should you choose?

A developer’s IDE is a very personal choice, and developers may engage in heated battles over the best tool to use.

Ultimately, the choice is dependent on which tool you are most productive and more capable in. If you find yourself fighting with the tool rather than just writing code, then it might not be the right choice. As with most things, it’s more important to make choices based on what best fits your personal and unique style, rather than follow any prescribed doctrine.

You can develop Flutter apps with any editor, including Notepad and the Flutter CLI, but Flutter provides official plugins for four popular IDEs:

  • Android Studio
  • Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
  • IntelliJ IDEA
  • Emacs

Let’s compare and configure all four and find out which one might be right for you.

Android Studio

Android Studio is a mature and stable IDE. Since 2014, Android Studio has been promoted as...

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