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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

Introducing the structure of the Dart language

If you already know some programming languages inspired by the old C language or have some experience of JavaScript, much of the Dart syntax will be easy for you to understand. Dart provides the most typical operators for manipulating variables. Its built-in types are the most common ones found in high-level programming languages, with a few particularities. Also, control flows and functions are very similar to typical ones. Let's review some of the structure of the Dart programming language before diving into Flutter.

If you already know Dart, you can use this section as a review of the Dart syntax; otherwise, you can check out this introduction and refer to the Dart language tour for a quick and easy learning guide on Dart: https://dart.dev/guides/language/language-tour.

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Flutter for Beginners
Published in: Sep 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788996082
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