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Flutter Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245430
Pages 712 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Simone Alessandria Simone Alessandria
Profile icon Simone Alessandria

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Flutter 2. Creating Your First Flutter App 3. Dart: A Language You Already Know 4. Introduction to Widgets 5. Mastering Layout and Taming the Widget Tree 6. Adding Interactivity and Navigation to Your App 7. Basic State Management 8. The Future is Now: Introduction to Asynchronous Programming 9. Data Persistence and Communicating with the Internet 10. Advanced State Management with Streams 11. Using Flutter Packages 12. Adding Animations to Your App 13. Using Firebase 14. Firebase Machine Learning 15. Flutter Web and Desktop 16. Distributing Your Mobile App 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

Creating your own package (part 1)

While using packages made by other developers can really boost your app creation speed, sometimes you need to create your own packages. Some of the main reasons for creating a new package are as follows:

  • Modularity
  • Code reuse
  • Encapsulation
  • Low-level interaction with a specific environment

Packages help you write modular code, as you can include several files and dependencies in a single package, and use it in your app. At the same time, reusing code is made extremely simple, as packages can be shared among different apps. Also, when you make changes to a package, you only need to make them in one place, and they will automatically cascade to all the apps that point to that package.

There is a special type of package, called a plugin, that contains platform-specific implementations for iOS, Android, web, or desktop. You generally create a plugin when you need to interact with specific low-level features of...

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