Summary

In this chapter, you have seen several ways to manage your widget trees:

• You have used Row and Column widgets to place their content in a linear way, and seen an introduction to proportional spacing between widgets with the use of Flexible and Expanded widgets.
• You have used a CustomPaint widget to draw custom shapes: in the code example, you have designed stars that can be used to show ratings for products or any other content.
• You have seen how to break up complex layouts into smaller, reusable widgets, and used refactoring techniques to simplify widget trees and improve maintainability and performance.
• Finally, we have covered the use of global themes to apply a consistent visual style to a Flutter app, and how to use the Theme widget to define properties that can be inherited by child widgets.
• One of the key takeaways from this chapter is the importance of creating reusable widgets and breaking up complex layouts into smaller, more manageable...