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Cross-Platform UIs with Flutter

You're reading from   Cross-Platform UIs with Flutter Unlock the ability to create native multiplatform UIs using a single code base with Flutter 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801810494
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ryan Edge Ryan Edge
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Alberto Miola Alberto Miola
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Counter App with History Tracking to Establish Fundamentals 2. Building a Race Standings App FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Todo Application Using Inherited Widgets and Provider 4. Building a Native Settings Application Using Material and Cupertino Widgets 5. Exploring Navigation and Routing with a Hacker News Clone 6. Building a Simple Contact Application with Forms and Gesturess 7. Building an Animated Excuses Application 8. Build an Adaptive, Responsive Note-Taking Application with Flutter and Dart Frog 9. Writing Tests and Setting Up GitHub Actions 10. Index 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Imperative routing with Navigator 1.0

Now that we have familiarized ourselves with how to do multi-page navigation in Flutter, let’s put what we’ve learned into action by building our Hacker News Application using these APIs. Flutter has a collection of APIs for handling multi-page navigation. The legacy APIs are referred to as Navigator 1.0. Let’s start by using those to build our page navigation.

We will start by adding a new view with tabs. Create a new home_view.dart class in the lib/src/ui/home folder. In it create a new StatefulWidget called HomeView and add the following logic to the _HomeViewState class’ build method:

  @override 
  Widget build(BuildContext context) { 
    return Scaffold( 
      appBar: AppBar( 
        title: const Text('Hacker News'), 
        bottom: TabBar( 
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