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Flutter Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   Flutter Cookbook, Second Edition 100+ step-by-step recipes for building cross-platform, professional-grade apps with Flutter 3.10.x and Dart 3.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245430
Length 712 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Simone Alessandria Simone Alessandria
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Flutter 2. Creating Your First Flutter App FREE CHAPTER 3. Dart: A Language You Already Know 4. Introduction to Widgets 5. Mastering Layout and Taming the Widget Tree 6. Adding Interactivity and Navigation to Your App 7. Basic State Management 8. The Future is Now: Introduction to Asynchronous Programming 9. Data Persistence and Communicating with the Internet 10. Advanced State Management with Streams 11. Using Flutter Packages 12. Adding Animations to Your App 13. Using Firebase 14. Firebase Machine Learning 15. Flutter Web and Desktop 16. Distributing Your Mobile App 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

Picking the right channel

One final item we need to cover before diving into building apps is the concept of channels. Flutter segments its development streams into channels, which is really just a fancy name for Git branches. Each channel represents a different level of stability for the Flutter framework. Flutter developers will release the latest features to the master channel first. As these features stabilize, they will get promoted to the beta channel, and then to the stable channel.

In previous Flutter versions, there was also a dev channel, between master and beta, but this was removed. The Flutter versioning policy will probably be updated in the near future, so please have a look at the Flutter build release page at https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Flutter-build-release-channels for the latest versioning updates.

Most of the time, you will probably want to stick to the stable channel. This will make sure that your code mostly runs without any...

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