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

Dart

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

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

To get the most out of this book

Some experience in at least one object-oriented programming language is strongly recommended.

In order to follow along with the code, you will need a Windows PC, Mac, Linux, or Chrome OS machine connected to the web, with at least 8 GB of RAM and the permissions to install new software.

An Android or iOS device is suggested but not necessary as there are simulators/emulators that can run on your machine. All software used in this book is open source or free to use.

Chapter 1, Getting Started with Flutter, explains in detail the installation process; however, you should have the following:

Software/hardware	OS Requirements
Recommended editors: Visual Studio Code, Android Studio, or IntelliJ Idea	Windows, macOS, or Linux
The Flutter SDK	Windows, macOS, or Linux
An emulator/simulator or an iOS or Android device	Windows, macOS, or Linux

In order to create apps for iOS, you will need a Mac.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code via the GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

If you like this book or want to share your ideas about it, please write a review on your favorite platform. This will help us make this book better, and you’ll also earn the author’s and reviewers’ everlasting gratitude.

Download the example code files

The code bundle for the book is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Flutter-Cookbook-Second-Edition/. We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://packt.link/WE615.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. For example: “Add the latest version of the lint package as a dev dependency in your pubspec.yaml, and remove any other linting packages you may find there.”

A block of code is set as follows:

dependencies: 
  flutter: 
    sdk: flutter 
  http: ^0.13.5

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

dev_dependencies: 
  flutter_test: 
    sdk: flutter 
  lint: ^2.0.0

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

# cp /usr/src/asterisk-addons/configs/cdr_mysql.conf.sample
     /etc/asterisk/cdr_mysql.conf

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on the screen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. For example: “ In order to use Google Maps, you need to obtain an API key.”

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.