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Flutter for Beginners - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837630387
Pages 406 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Thomas Bailey Thomas Bailey
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Alessandro Biessek Alessandro Biessek
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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? 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

Screen transitions

Screen changes need to look smooth to the user. You want the user to enjoy their experience within your app, and jarring screen transitions can impact their enjoyment and flow.

As we have seen, MaterialPageRoute and CupertinoPageRoute are classes that add a route to the navigator. You may have noticed as we experimented with the example app that they add a transition between the old and new Route. These transitions align with the platform defaults but can be customized as well.

On Android, for example, the entrance transition for the page slides the page upward and fades it in. The exit transition does the same in reverse. On iOS, the page slides in from the right and exits in reverse.

Flutter lets us customize this behavior by letting us add transitions between screens. To do this, we need to look a little deeper at routes.

PageRouteBuilder

PageRouteBuilder is a helper class that can be used for custom Route creation, instead of using the pre-built...

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