Search icon
Arrow left icon
All Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Newsletters
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Flutter Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

You're reading from  Flutter Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

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

Interacting with desktop menus

Desktop apps have menus that do not exist on mobile form factors. Typically, you expect to see the important actions of a desktop app in its top menu.

In this recipe, you will learn how to add a menu that works on Windows and macOS.

Getting ready

Before following this recipe, you should have completed the first recipe in this chapter, Creating a responsive app leveraging Flutter Web.

Depending on where you want to run your app, you should also have completed one of the previous recipes in this chapter:

  • For Windows: Running your app on Windows
  • For macOS: Running your app on macOS

How to do it...

In order to add a menu to your desktop app, follow the next steps:

  1. In your project, add the dependency to the menu_bar package by typing in your Terminal:
    flutter pub add menu_bar
    
  2. At the top of the book_list_screen.dart file, add the menubar import, and hide MenuBar from the material...
lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $15.99/month. Cancel anytime}