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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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Thomas Bailey Thomas Bailey
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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

Where can I find plugins?

The Flutter community has a very easy way to find the plugins that you may need via the https://pub.dev site that they maintain. This is where all plugins are registered and the primary way that developers find plugins.

This site not only allows you to search for plugins but also includes useful sections such as the following:

  • Flutter favorites: Plugins that demonstrate the highest levels of quality.
  • Most popular packages: The most downloaded plugins.
  • Package of the week: This is a series of animated videos that introduce some of the plugins available. Flutter has been very successful in the use of short videos to introduce the widget of the week and has rolled out the concept of package of the week.

Now, let’s take a look at the individual entries for a plugin at pub.dev.

Plugin entry

One of my favorite plugins is the one that introduces a new widget – the AutoSizeText widget. Just like its name suggests, this...

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