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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 an iOS-specific UI with CupertinoApp

Now that we have familiarized ourselves with Flutter’s platform detection capabilities, let’s put what we’ve learned into action by building a uniquely Cupertino Settings UI.

In Flutter, you can build an application that uses the iOS design system created by Apple by wrapping your application in CupertinoApp. This widget builds on WidgetsApp, which provides basic navigation and some foundational widgets by configuring the design system’s standards.

Because CupertinoApp is just a widget, the design system that you decide to use is not restricted by platform. You could very well use Material for iOS applications and Cupertino for Android applications, or even build something completely custom!

As we want to use a generic theme mode to represent iOS, let’s extend SettingsService first. Open settings_service.dart and replace the code with the following:

class SettingsService {
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