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Cross-Platform UIs with Flutter

You're reading from   Cross-Platform UIs with Flutter Unlock the ability to create native multiplatform UIs using a single code base with Flutter 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801810494
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ryan Edge Ryan Edge
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Alberto Miola Alberto Miola
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Counter App with History Tracking to Establish Fundamentals 2. Building a Race Standings App FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Todo Application Using Inherited Widgets and Provider 4. Building a Native Settings Application Using Material and Cupertino Widgets 5. Exploring Navigation and Routing with a Hacker News Clone 6. Building a Simple Contact Application with Forms and Gesturess 7. Building an Animated Excuses Application 8. Build an Adaptive, Responsive Note-Taking Application with Flutter and Dart Frog 9. Writing Tests and Setting Up GitHub Actions 10. Index 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building a Native Settings Application Using Material and Cupertino Widgets

One of the best features of Flutter is that the framework gives you control over every pixel. Flutter ships with its own custom widget catalog, allowing you to define your own design system while also shipping both Material Design and Cupertino widgets. This capability is a departure from many other frameworks that choose to rely on original equipment manufacturer (OEM) widgets. The major benefit is that your app can be truly unique, using the high-level widget libraries of Google or Cupertino or a widget library of your own mechanizations.

In this chapter, first, we will examine how to use features of the Flutter framework to build platform-specific UIs. Then, we will learn how to build our Settings application using Apple theming with Flutter’s cupertino package. Wrapping up, we will learn how to build the same application using Material theming with Flutter’s material package.

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