You're reading from Flutter for Beginners An introductory guide to building cross-platform mobile applications with Flutter 2.5 and Dart

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Last Updated in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800565999

Length 370 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Dart

Tools

Flutter

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (2):

Thomas Bailey

Alessandro Biessek

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Flutter and Dart

2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Flutter FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: An Introduction to Dart

4. Chapter 3: Flutter versus Other Frameworks

5. Chapter 4: Dart Classes and Constructs

6. Section 2: The Flutter User Interface – Everything Is a Widget

7. Chapter 5: Widgets – Building Layouts in Flutter

8. Chapter 6: Handling User Input and Gestures

9. Chapter 7: Routing – Navigating between Screens

10. Section 3: Developing Fully Featured Apps

11. Chapter 8: Plugins – What Are They and How Do I Use Them?

12. Chapter 9: Popular Third-Party Plugins

13. Chapter 10: Using Widget Manipulations and Animations

14. Section 4: Testing and App Release

15. Chapter 11: Testing and Debugging

16. Chapter 12: Releasing Your App to the World

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

In this chapter, we will create, build, and run a Flutter application. To do this, you will need to set up your system so that it is capable of doing this.

Specifically, you will need to set up your system to have the following:

A Flutter software development kit (SDK) installed and added to your PATH
An integrated development environment (IDE) where you can view and edit Flutter code
Android Studio and/or Xcode so that you can use the Android and iOS development tools and iOS simulators/Android emulators

The chapter will give you some guidance on how to set up your system, but as you will discover, the Flutter documentation is excellent and includes very accurate and up-to-date getting started guides: https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install.

Feel free to set up your system now or at the specific points required during the chapter.

You can find the source code for this chapter on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Flutter-for-Beginners-Second-Edition/tree/main/hello_world/lib/chapter_01.