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Flutter Projects

You're reading from   Flutter Projects A practical, project-based guide to building real-world cross-platform mobile applications and games

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838647773
Length 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Simone Alessandria Simone Alessandria
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello Flutter! 2. Miles or Kilometers? Using Stateful Widgets FREE CHAPTER 3. My Time - Listening to a Stream of Data 4. Pong Game - 2D Animations and Gestures 5. Let's Go to the Movies - Getting Data from the Web 6. Store That Data - Using Sq(F)Lite To Store Data in a Local Database 7. Firing Up the App - Integrating Firebase into a Flutter App 8. The Treasure Mapp - Integrating Maps and Using Your Device Camera 9. Let's Play Dice: Knockout - Creating an Animation with Flare 10. ToDo App - Leveraging the BLoC Pattern and Sembast 11. Building a Flutter Web App 12. Assessment 13. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Adding the search feature

By leveraging the Movie Database web service search feature, we'll allow our users to search any movie by title. What we want to do is show a search icon button in the AppBar. When the user taps on the button they will be able to enter part of a movie title into a TextField, and when they press the search button on the keyboard, the app will call the web service to retrieve all movies that contain the user's input.

Let's add the logic that we'll use to implement the search feature and call the Movie Database web API with the title we want to search:

  1. In the http_helper.dart file, in the HttpHelper class, let's declare a final String, containing the beginning of the URL required to perform a movie search. Obviously each API has its own URL structure, but most public web services have thorough documentation that will help you to...
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