You're reading from Flutter for Beginners An introductory guide to building cross-platform mobile applications with Flutter 2.5 and Dart

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Last Updated in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800565999

Length 370 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Dart

Tools

Flutter

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Authors (2):

Thomas Bailey

Alessandro Biessek

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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

Releasing your app on iOS

Releasing on Apple iOS is more complex when compared to Android. Although you can test on your own device when developing, making an app public requires you to have a valid Apple Developer account with the ability to publish on the App Store, as it's the only supported app publishing channel.

Like Android and the configuration we had to make in AndroidManifest.xml, iOS has a similar configuration file that is used by the iOS build tool Xcode.

What is Xcode?

Xcode is an IDE that is only available on macOS and is used for the development of native iOS apps. You can download it from the Apple App Store for free. It is used by Flutter to package your app code ready for release on the App Store.

iOS apps can only be built on a Mac computer, so if you are a Windows or Linux user you will either need to invest in a Mac or get a virtual machine you can use.

App Store Connect

In Android, we did not need to configure anything in the Play Store...

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