Write, test and publish your web, desktop, and embedded apps with this most up-to-date book on Flutter using the Dart programming language
Key Features
- Thoroughly updated to cover the latest features in Flutter 3.3
- Practical recipes to publish responsive, multi-platform apps from a single database
- Covers not just the how's' but the why's' of Flutter's features with examples
Book Description
Flutter continues to grow, both in usage and in the size of the ecosystem. Every day, more than 1,000 new mobile apps using Flutter are published to the Apple and Google Play stores.
Flutter Cookbook, Second Edition, is thoroughly updated and includes the latest features in Flutter 3.3 in a recipe-based format for you create product-grade applications.
To begin with, we learn to set up and customize the Flutter SDK for macOS and Windows. In the next chapters, we will learn the fundamentals and techniques of Dart to think like a programmer and build an architecture for your application that can be re-used later. Throughout, we learn to master the 3 core aspects of developing an app, namely architecture, state management solutions, and networking.
This recipe-based guide utilizes in-depth concepts to cover not just the how's' but the why's' of Flutter's features with application examples to present their execution. From using widgets, to adapting the right UI/UX for your apps, to hot reload and re-start techniques, this book will equip you with best practices and the know-how of Flutter application development. These will include managing incoming and outgoing data, and adding interactivity, animations, important Flutter plugins to add maps, camera, voice, and more. Finally, this guide includes a dedicated chapter on implementing MLkit that runs on TensorFlow Lite and covers techniques to build custom machine learning solutions for your apps.
By the end of this Flutter book, you'll be writing and delivering fully functional apps with confidence.
What you will learn
- Set up your development environment and learn the fundamentals of Dart
- Create reusable architecture that can be applied to any type of app
- Build simple and complex screens from several widgets that can keep and manage data
- Implement tools to track down and kill code errors efficiently
- Make interactive and responsive apps with routing, page navigation, reading text from input fields etc
- Use the tools you need to build engaging animations in your apps
- Take control of your codebase with automated testing and developer tooling
- Work with Firebase MLKit and TensorFlow Lite to add ML features to your apps
- Publish an app into the main stores: the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store
Who This Book Is For
Developers who are familiar with the OOP language and prefer learning-by-doing will get the most out of this book.
If you have some experience building apps on Flutter or have been playing around with the framework for some time now and have set eyes on developing mobile apps using Dart, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents
- Getting Started with Flutter: Setting up your environment and choosing an IDE
- Dart: A programming language you probably already know
- Building Layouts, Hot Reload and Hot Restart
- Adding Interactivity and Navigation to your app
- Basic State Management
- Debugging and Solving problems
- The Future is Now: Introduction to Asynchronous Programming
- Data Persistence and Communicating with the Internet
- Advanced State Management with Streams
- Flutter Packages - Using Plugins and creating Packages
- (N.B. Additional chapters to be confirmed upon publication)
