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Flutter for Beginners

You're reading from   Flutter for Beginners Cross-platform mobile development from Hello, World! to app release with Flutter 3.10+ and Dart 3.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837630387
Length 406 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Alessandro Biessek Alessandro Biessek
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Learning the Core Concepts
2. Chapter 1: What Is Flutter and Why Should I Use It? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: An Introduction to Dart 4. Chapter 3: Flutter versus Other Frameworks 5. Chapter 4: Dart Classes and Constructs 6. Part 2:Building a Basic Flutter App
7. Chapter 5: Building Your User Interface through Widgets 8. Chapter 6: Handling User Input and Gestures 9. Chapter 7: Let’s Get Graphical! 10. Chapter 8: Routing – Navigating between Screens 11. Part 3:Turning a Simple App into an Awesome App
12. Chapter 9: Flutter Plugins – Get Great Functionality for Free! 13. Chapter 10: Popular Third-Party Plugins 14. Chapter 11: Using Widget Manipulations and Animations 15. Part 4:Testing and Releasing Your App
16. Chapter 12: Testing and Debugging 17. Chapter 13: Releasing Your App to the World 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the Navigator widget

Mobile applications will almost always contain more than one screen. If you are an Android or iOS developer, you probably know about the Activity or ViewController classes, which represent screens on those platforms.

An important class for navigation between screens in Flutter is the Navigator widget, which is responsible for managing screen changes while maintaining a history of screens so that the user can move back through the screens (if the app chooses to allow it).

A new screen in Flutter is just a new widget that is effectively placed on top of the existing widgets. This is managed through the concept of routes, which define the possible navigable routes a user can follow through the app. Unsurprisingly, there is a class named Route that is a helper for working on the navigation workflow.

The main classes in the navigation layer are as follows:

  • Navigator: The route manager
  • Overlay: Navigator uses this to specify the appearances...
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