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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

Working with animations in Flutter

In Flutter there are two ways to build animations: explicitly and implicitly. Explicit animations are a set of APIs and controls that tell the Flutter framework how to rebuild the widget tree while modifying widget properties to create a seamless animation effect. While this effect is more manual and low-level than implicit animations, it is more powerful.

Implicit animations enable you to defer the management of animations to the Flutter framework. Instead of manually controlling the animation, it can be triggered by updating widget properties. Changes to a widget’s property will trigger the animation from the previous value to the newly specified one.

To understand how implicit animations work, let’s start by building our contacts form with it.

Open up excuses_view.dart. Replace the _ExcusesViewContentState class definition with the following code:

class _ExcusesViewContentState extends State<_ExcusesViewContent>...
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