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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

Applying global themes

Consistency is at the heart of any good design. Every screen in your app should look as if it were designed as a single unit. Your font selections, color palettes, and even text padding are all part of your app's identity. When users look at your app, branding consistency is critical for recognition. Apple products look like Apple products, with their white backgrounds and sleek curves. Google's Material Design is a colorful splash of primary shapes and shadows.

To make all their products look like they belong to the same design system, these companies use detailed documents that explicitly describe the schematics of how UIs should be designed. On a programmatic side, we have themes. These are widgets that live at the top of the tree and influence all of their children. You don't need to declare styling for every single widget. You just need to make sure that it respects the theme.

In this recipe, we will take the e-commerce mock-up screen and simplify...

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