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

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

Getting started with Dart

Dart aims to aggregate the benefits of most of the high-level languages with mature language features, including the following:

Productive tooling: This includes tools to analyze code, IDE plugins, and big package ecosystems.
Garbage collection: This manages or deals with memory deallocation (mainly memory occupied by objects that are no longer in use).
Type annotations (optional): This is for those who want security and consistency to control all of the data in an application.
Statically typed: Although type annotations are optional, Dart is type-safe and uses type inference to analyze types at runtime. This feature is important for finding bugs during code compilation.
Portability: This is not only for the web (transpiled to JavaScript) but it can also be natively compiled to Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) and x86 code.

All Flutter development involves having intimate knowledge of the Dart language; your application code, plugin...

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