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

Exploring Firebase plugins

In this section, we will look at one of the most common sets of plugins that are used by Flutter app developers and explain how they can be used within your apps. Firebase is a Google product that provides multiple technologies for multiple platforms. If you are a mobile or web developer, you may be familiar with this amazing platform.

Among its offered technologies, the important ones are listed here:

Realtime Database: A NoSQL (non-relational) database on the cloud. With this, you can store and access data in real time.
Cloud Firestore: A NoSQL database, with a focus on big and scalable applications that provide advanced query support compared to a real-time database.
Cloud Functions: Functions triggered by many Firebase products, such as the previous ones, and also by the user (using the software development kit (SDK)). We can develop scripts to react to changes in a database, user authentication, and more.
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