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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

Using custom fonts

Material Design and Cupertino provide good fonts for application design, but sometimes it's useful to change the default font to one that's more brand/product focused.

As the font is specified in Theme widget, we can add it to the root application theme, and then it's applied to the whole application. If you prefer to specify the font per widget, this is also possible. The first step to use a custom font in Flutter applications is to import font files into the project.

Importing fonts to the Flutter project

This time, we will be using our Favors app directly to show the example. We will be importing and using a custom font as the default font for the whole application.

To do that, we can put...

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