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Flutter for Beginners

You're reading from Flutter for Beginners Cross-platform mobile development from Hello, World! to app release with Flutter 3.10+ and Dart 3.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837630387

Length 406 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Dart

Tools

Flutter

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Alessandro Biessek

Thomas Bailey

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Learning the Core Concepts

2. Chapter 1: What Is Flutter and Why Should I Use It? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: An Introduction to Dart

4. Chapter 3: Flutter versus Other Frameworks

5. Chapter 4: Dart Classes and Constructs

6. Part 2:Building a Basic Flutter App

7. Chapter 5: Building Your User Interface through Widgets

8. Chapter 6: Handling User Input and Gestures

9. Chapter 7: Let’s Get Graphical!

10. Chapter 8: Routing – Navigating between Screens

11. Part 3:Turning a Simple App into an Awesome App

12. Chapter 9: Flutter Plugins – Get Great Functionality for Free!

13. Chapter 10: Popular Third-Party Plugins

14. Chapter 11: Using Widget Manipulations and Animations

15. Part 4:Testing and Releasing Your App

16. Chapter 12: Testing and Debugging

17. Chapter 13: Releasing Your App to the World

18. Index

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19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring Firebase plugins

In this section, we will look at one of the most common sets of plugins that are used by Flutter app developers and explain how they can be used within your apps. Firebase is a Google product that provides multiple technologies for multiple platforms. If you are a mobile or web developer, you may be familiar with this amazing platform.

Among its offered technologies, the important ones are listed here:

Realtime Database: A NoSQL (non-relational) database on the cloud. With this, you can store and access data in real time.
Cloud Firestore: A NoSQL database, with a focus on big and scalable applications, that provides more advanced query support compared to a real-time database.
Cloud Functions: These are coded functions that are triggered by an activity that may come from another Firebase product, including the previous ones, or the user (using the software development kit (SDK)). We can develop scripts to react to changes in a database...

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Authors (2)

Thomas Bailey

Thomas Bailey

Thomas Bailey has an extensive background in tech, working for companies and high profile firms as a senior developer, solutions architect and IT director. His education technology company uses Flutter solely as the technology powering their education apps, and he has enjoyed watching Flutter move its initial beta release to a fully fledged and highly popular framework we see today.

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Biessek

Biessek

Alessandro Biessek was born in the beautiful city of Chapecó, in the state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, in 1993. He is currently working on mobile application development for Android and iOS in his hometown. He has more than 9 years of experience in development, from desktop development with Delphi to backend with PHP, Node.js, Golang, mobile development with Apache Flex, and Java/Kotlin. Most of his time is devoted to the development of Android apps. Always interested in new technologies, he has been following the Flutter framework for a long time, shown through its growth and adoption in recent months.

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