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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

Routing – Navigating between Screens

Mobile apps are typically organized into multiple screens or pages. You will have seen this in the mobile apps you already use. For example, perhaps an app has an initial list view of items (such as groceries or films), and, when you choose one of the items, you are taken to another screen or page where more details are shown about the item. When you do this, you have just navigated from one screen to another.

In Flutter, moving between screens is called a route and is managed by the Navigator widget of the application. The Navigator widget manages the navigation stack, pushing a new route onto the stack or popping a previous one-off. In this chapter, you will learn how to use the Navigator widget to manage your app routes, how to add transition animations, and how to pass information (state) between screens.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Understanding the Navigator widget
  • Understanding routes
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