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Flutter Cookbook

You're reading from   Flutter Cookbook Over 100 proven techniques and solutions for app development with Flutter 2.2 and Dart

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838823382
Length 646 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Simone Alessandria Simone Alessandria
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Flutter 2. Dart: A Language You Already Know FREE CHAPTER 3. Introduction to Widgets 4. Mastering Layout and Taming the Widget Tree 5. Adding Interactivity and Navigation to Your App 6. Basic State Management 7. The Future is Now: Introduction to Asynchronous Programming 8. Data Persistence and Communicating with the Internet 9. Advanced State Management with Streams 10. Using Flutter Packages 11. Adding Animations to Your App 12. Using Firebase 13. Machine Learning with Firebase ML Kit 14. Distributing Your Mobile App 15. Flutter Web and Desktop 16. About Packt

Applying global themes

Consistency is at the heart of any good design. Every screen in your app should look as if it were designed as a single unit. Your font selections, color palettes, and even text padding are all part of your app's identity. When users look at your app, branding consistency is critical for recognition. Apple products look like Apple products, with their white backgrounds and sleek curves. Google's Material Design is a colorful splash of primary shapes and shadows.

To make all their products look like they belong to the same design system, these companies use detailed documents that explicitly describe the schematics of how UIs should be designed. On a programmatic side, we have themes. These are widgets that live at the top of the tree and influence all of their children. You don't need to declare styling for every single widget.  You just need to make sure that it respects the theme.

In this recipe, we will take the e-commerce mock-up...

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