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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 2.5 and Dart

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Last Updated in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800565999
Length 370 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Thomas Bailey Thomas Bailey
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Alessandro Biessek Alessandro Biessek
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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 7: Routing – Navigating between Screens

Mobile apps are typically organized into multiple screens or pages. You will have seen this when you use many mobile apps. For example, perhaps an app has an initial list view of items (such as groceries or films), and when you choose one of the items, you are taken to another screen or page where more details are shown about the item. When you do this, you have just navigated from one screen to another.

In Flutter, moving between screens is called a route and is managed by the Navigator widget of the application. The Navigator widget manages the navigation stack, pushing a new route onto the stack or popping a previous one off. In this chapter, you will learn how to use the Navigator widget to manage your app routes, how to add transition animations, and how to pass information (state) between screens.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Understanding the Navigator widget
  • Understanding routes...
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