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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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Alessandro Biessek Alessandro Biessek
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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen each of the available Flutter widget types and their differences. stateless widgets do not get rebuilt frequently by the framework; on the other hand, stateful widgets get rebuilt every time its associated State object changes (which could be when the setState() function is used, for example). We have also seen that Flutter comes with many widgets that can be combined to build unique UIs, and that they also do not need to be visual components on the user's screen; they can be layout, styling, and even data widgets, such as InheritedWidget. We have started the development of a small app that we will continue to develop in the next few chapters; we will be adding specific functions to it while we present new important concepts about Flutter.

In the next chapter, we will check out how to add user interaction to the app by adding responses...

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