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Flutter for Beginners

You're reading from   Flutter for Beginners An introductory guide to building cross-platform mobile applications with Flutter and Dart 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788996082
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Dart
2. An Introduction to Dart FREE CHAPTER 3. Intermediate Dart Programming 4. An Introduction to Flutter 5. Section 2: The Flutter User Interface - Everything is a Widget
6. Widgets: Building Layouts in Flutter 7. Handling User Input and Gestures 8. Theming and Styling 9. Routing: Navigating between Screens 10. Section 3: Developing Fully Featured Apps
11. Firebase Plugins 12. Developing Your Own Flutter Plugin 13. Accessing Device Features from the Flutter App 14. Platform Views and Map Integration 15. Section 4: Advanced Flutter - Resources to Complex Apps
16. Testing, Debugging, and Deployment 17. Improving User Experience 18. Widget Graphic Manipulations 19. Animations 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Theming and Styling

Creating UIs with built-in themes and styles will make an application look professional and easy to use. In addition, the framework allows the creation of customized and unique themes and styles. In order to do that, you will learn how to customize an app's look by adding custom fonts, using themes, and exploring the famous platform standards, namely iOS Cupertino and Google Material Design. Additionally, you will see how to use media queries for dynamic styling.

Every app must have its own identity. Our Favors app, for example, needs to have its own colors and styles. Knowing how to apply styles, colors, and custom fonts is fundamental to achieve this in any app.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Theme widgets
  • Material Design
  • iOS Cupertino
  • Using custom fonts
  • Dynamic styling with MediaQuery and LayoutBuilder
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