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

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Flutter

In this chapter, you will learn the basics of the Flutter framework, the reasons for its creation, and what the future of Flutter may hold. You will learn about the thriving Flutter community, how it is contributing to the continued evolution of Flutter, and how and why Flutter has grown so quickly in the last couple of years. Along the way, you will see how to make (and run!) your first Flutter project, experience the excellent Flutter documentation, and see how Flutter is designed to work across a range of platforms including iOS, Android, Web, Windows, and Mac.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

What is Flutter?
Hello Flutter – a first glimpse of Flutter
Widgets, widgets, everywhere
Building and running Flutter