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

How do plugins work on iOS and Android?

Many plugins will work with the different underlying platforms to use operating system functionality. This dependency changes the way your project is built and run because there is native code within your project that interfaces with the underlying platform. Let's look at how that interfacing works.

MethodChannel

Flutter communication between the client (Flutter) and the host (native) application occurs through platform channels. The MethodChannel class is responsible for sending messages (method invocations) to the platform side. On the platform side, MethodChannel on Android (API) and FlutterMethodChannel on iOS (API) enable receiving method calls and sending a result back. The structure of this relationship is shown in the following diagram.

Figure 8.5 – Interface between Flutter and native

The platform channel technique allows for the decoupling of the UI code from the platform-specific native code...

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MethodChannel

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