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Flutter Cookbook

You're reading from   Flutter Cookbook Over 100 proven techniques and solutions for app development with Flutter 2.2 and Dart

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838823382
Length 646 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Simone Alessandria Simone Alessandria
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

First-class functions

names.forEach(print); implements a pattern called first-class functions. This pattern dictates that functions can be treated just like any other variable. They can be stored as closures or even passed around to different functions.

The forEach() function expects a function with the following signature: 

void Function<T>(T element)

The print() function has the following signature: 

void Function(Object object)

Since both of these expect a function parameter and the print function has the same signature, we can just provide the print function as the parameter! 

// Instead of doing this
data.forEach((value) {
print(value);
});

// We can do this
data.forEach(print);

This language feature can make your code more readable. 

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Flutter Cookbook
Published in: Jun 2021
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781838823382
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