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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

How to use Git to manage the Flutter SDK

An alternative way to install the Flutter SDK is using Git.

Since Flutter is open source and hosted on GitHub, if you clone the main Flutter repository, you’ll already have everything you need. As an added bonus, you can easily change to different versions of the Flutter SDK when needed.

The packages that are available to download on Flutter’s website are snapshots from the Git repository. Flutter uses Git internally to manage its versions, channels, and upgrades.

Installing Git

First, you need to make sure you have Git installed on your computer. Git is installed by default on most Mac and Linux machines. For Windows, you can download and install Git here: https://git-scm.com/download/win.

You can also download a Git client to make working with repositories a bit easier. Tools such as Sourcetree (https://www.sourcetreeapp.com) or GitHub Desktop (https://desktop.github.com) can simplify working with Git....

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